How Big is Your Hard Drive?

by teenyuck 34 Replies latest jw friends

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  noidea

  Hmmm,
  Why did I think there would be measurements posted. [:|]
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  Amazing

  Hi TD: I was recently checking new systems for our office. Gateway has an 1800 MHz (1.8Ghz) with an 800Mhz Bus) ... I have it in writing. We are trying to get the company away from Compuke (Compaq). I priced HP, and was not imporessed with their support ... but the sales guy swore up and down that 266Mhz Bus was the highest available ... until I came back with the gateway material ... then he admitted that 266 was the HP limit. I have no way of knowing whether HP stops at 266, but I think he was saving face.
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  teenyuck

  I just caught that this was active again...

  I think the bus MHz is 266...I know I asked it of the HP comp at the store, and I know I asked the guy on the phone at Dell...I only asked because Amazing suggested it...I did not really understand that until I got all of your help on this board...Thanks again!

  I did not mean to imply the bus was 800 MHz

  Here is the cut and paste info on the box, from Dell..
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  1 461-3914 Dimension 4400,Pentium 4 Processor at 1.8GHz
  1 461-4571 512MB DDR SDRAM at 266MHz Promo
  1 310-1548 Dell Enhanced Quiet Key Keyboard
  1 320-0298 Video ready option w/o monitor
  1 320-0304 64MB NVIDIA GeForce2 MX Graphics Card with TV-Out
  1 340-5611 80GB 7200 RPM Ultra ATA Hard Drive
  1 461-2956 Thank you for buying Dell
  1 340-1927 3.5in Floppy Drive
  1 420-3079 Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition,English
  1 313-7222 Dell Application Back-up CD, Factory Install
  1 310-1556 Mouse W/Wheel,1.3A, Microsoft,Dimension,MG, Factory Install
  1 430-0327 10/100 PCI Fast Ethernet NIC Factory Install
  1 313-0979 V.90 56K PCI Data/Fax,Copper Modem
  1 313-0983 48X Max Variable CD-ROM Drive
  1 313-1488 SB Live! 1024 Digital Sound Card
  1 313-0992 Harman/Kardon Speakers,HK-695
  1 412-5623 Symantec Norton Antivirus 2002OEM Package, English
  1 412-3809 Music Match 6.0 for Windows XP
  1 412-3807 Dell Picture Studio for Windows XP, Dell Edition
  1 313-0995 16X/10X/40X CD-RW Drive
  1 412-0164 AOL 7.0 Factory Install For US DHS
  1 412-0093 Microsoft Money 2002 OEM, CD with Doc,US English
  1 412-1603 Microsoft Office XP Small Business with EducateU Training
  1 950-1261 Type 3-Third Party Next Business Day At Home Service, 1 Year24x7 Phone Support, 1 Year Ex tended
  1 950-3338 2 Year Limited Warranty
  1 950-1260 Type 3-Third Party Next Business Day At Home Service, 1 Year24x7 Phone Support, Initial Y ear
  1 412-0184 QUICKEN TAX SUITE 2002, CD WITH DOCS, US ENG, NOT FACTORY INSTALLED
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  NameWithheld

  I hate to pick - but there is NO consumer level chipset out right now that has an 800MHz bus right now. Let's reveiw the 2 major players ...

  Intel - runs a quad pumped 100Mhz front side bus. Effective speed here is 400Mhz, but don't get confused by salesman BS. The 'real' or actual speed is 100Mhz. But info is passed on 4 edges of the signal, so you get an effective speed of 400MHz. Amazing, I think the 800MHz bus speed you are referring to is the speed of the RAMBUS memory, which opperates at 800MHz. But it does not communicate with the front side bus at that speed. A small but important distinction.

  Soon (next few months) Intel will release a chipset that will run at 133Mhz, also quad pumped - so effective speed will be 533Mhz.

  AMD - Also runs a 133MHz front side bus. It's double pumped, much like the above quad pumped Intel. So effective speed is 266Mhz. Chipsets that support a 166MHz double pumped bus are appearing now, so on them effective speed would be a 333MHz bus. As a side note, some of us have been running 333MHz for awhile now - my 1.33GHz AMD will run up to well over 1.5GHz.

  All in all I tend to lean to the AMD side, but either chip is a good choice.
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  NameWithheld

  Oh, and a good choice for some if you are comfortable doing so, is rolling your own PC. It's cost effective IF you already own your operating system and office software. The nice thing about doing this is you can pick quality parts for every peice of the system. These pre-builts ALWAYS cut corners in several places - cheaper video cards, power supplies, etc.

  I've even added water-cooling to my system, sure is nice not hearing a thing from the PC. Just a couple of really quiet low-speed fans blowing over the radiator. And to pimp it out a bit of neon showing through a case window Now I just need to quiet down the HD and CD!