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halibut
Title: RSA
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Date Posted:
6/27 8:49am
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PC Specs
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I have no idea about CPU speeds and motherboards, and the latest PCI-X, AGP, whatever type of stuff, and I'm looking to upgrade the old PC
Currently, it's a Pentium IV 2.4gHz, with 3GB Ram (DDR I think), and it's ridiculously slow. I can't even play a video file at the same time as unzipping a different file.
What's a top end motherboard/processor, and what's a better priced not-as-good-but-still-damned-fast processor?
What's all this "dual processor" stuff, and what does it all mean!??!?
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elbertino
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Date Posted:
6/27 11:58am
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halibut posted:
I have no idea about CPU speeds and motherboards, and the latest PCI-X, AGP, whatever type of stuff, and I'm looking to upgrade the old PC
Currently, it's a Pentium IV 2.4gHz, with 3GB Ram (DDR I think), and it's ridiculously slow. I can't even play a video file at the same time as unzipping a different file.
What's a top end motherboard/processor, and what's a better priced not-as-good-but-still-damned-fast processor?
What's all this "dual processor" stuff, and what does it all mean!??!?
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SithLordDarthRichie
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Date Posted:
6/27 12:20pm
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Are you sure it's not spyware or a virus making your computer slow?
I have a 1.6ghz with 725MB RAM, and I could unzip a file while running a video.
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halibut
Title: RSA
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6/27 12:29pm
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Nah, I run a clean system.
Of course, the fact that there's 8 hard drives plugged into it might not help on the speed side of things
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SithLordDarthRichie
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Yeh, that might be a problem 
Surely one very large hard drive on top of the one that it came with is enough?
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halibut
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6/27 12:45pm
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There's 4x120GB internal drives. With the upgrade, I'll be replacing it with 2 drives (I need a root drive, and a drive for video capture).
The others are all external
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Cobranaconda
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Date Posted:
6/27 1:42pm
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I'm used to fast computers, so I'm no help. My first one was 2.6GHz (back in 2002, that was super), and now I have a 2.4GHz Quad (so, basically, 9.6GHz)
However, your RAM is pretty good, so it's probably your HDs. Grab a 1TB drive and get rid of the rest.
It's times like these I enjoy my 500GB HD and lack of need for externals
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elbertino
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Date Posted:
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Date Posted: 11:58am Subject: RE: PC Specs
halibut posted:
I have no idea about CPU speeds and motherboards, and the latest PCI-X, AGP, whatever type of stuff, and I'm looking to upgrade the old PC
Currently, it's a Pentium IV 2.4gHz, with 3GB Ram (DDR I think), and it's ridiculously slow. I can't even play a video file at the same time as unzipping a different file.
What's a top end motherboard/processor, and what's a better priced not-as-good-but-still-damned-fast processor?
What's all this "dual processor" stuff, and what does it all mean!??!?
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SithLordDarthRichie
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Moylesy
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Halibut, do you have backups of your files on those externals?
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halibut
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I'm backing up all the stuff on the externals as I type so I can then back up the 4 internal hard-drives onto those. The plan is (when I can) to get one 500GB internal drive to replace the 4x120 internal drives.
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malkieD2
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Date Posted:
6/30 1:48am
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I'm absolutely no expert, but is there a software solution which would effectively ignore the additional HDs unless needed, hence improving your day-to-day PC speed?
Would an alternative solution also be to get a second PC, leaving your existing one for video capture / authoring, but a totally separate PC (networked) for everyday fun ?
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halibut
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Date Posted:
6/30 3:13am
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Problem is, it's quite slow at video capturing as it is. So I plan to gradually build up a new PC, and use the old bits for a secondary PC for Mrs H
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