New PC bits
Submitted by wyre on Mon, 14/11/2005 - 19:32.
Recently ordered myself a new 120GB Seagate Barracude HDD (yes, IDE not SATA - I fear change) and a Radeon 9600XT. I got the HDD and installed it last week, but still no sign of my graphics card (ordered from aria.co.uk - anyone had any bad experience with them?).
I'm now happily running with the 120GB drive as my data drive, and my old 15GB drive as my WinXP install drive (I like to keep things separate in case I need to do any pesky formatting/reinstalling WinXP). Looking forward to getting my graphics card, so I can play all my nice games in FunkyVision(TM).
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Re:New PC bits
Since our household now includes an Ipod my old 40gb drive is starting to look a bit overstretched... my plan tho is too replace the equally overstretched 40gb drive in our PVR with something bigger, and then recycle the spare as a slave in the PC. This depends on my magicing £50 out of thin air tho, which isn't going too well at the moment..
I don't really understand SATA, and that makes me afraid of it.
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SATA is nice and quick, which is brilliant for viewing uncompressed video files (I do that a lot)
The SATA disk I own is 40 gig, and I use it pretty much exclusively for video editing. I have a 7200 RPM IDE hard drive for everything else, which is 250 gigs.
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So what do you need in order to use a SATA disk - is it something most motherboards can support or is it something special? IE, should I know already if I could use one on mine?
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It's generally on the motherboard, yes, but you can also get PCI controller cards.