@unknownH,
it has 32mb cache, so it should be faster than those 16mb cache drives.
otherwise i think it's just the same with other WD caviar green hdd.

@fylon,
long time no see
i guess it's easy to get a 478 mobo now that everyone's starting to move to newer tech. i see a lot of p4 boards poppoing up at garage sales

now 500GB, 640GB and 808GB are priced pretty close together, you might end up buying another 808GB instead

@fylon, so many hard disks!
and you're able to store all of them in your casing?

yeah, hdds are really really cheap nowadays.

@fylon, do you run your hdds in RAID?

there's pci sata expansion card. i think you'll have maybe 2-4 ports on that card.

i think that can give you enough juice to power another 1 or 2 more p4 rigs

yeah, the 2nd plug is for extra power.

btw guys, most probably would be retiring my p4 rig soon, maybe next week. already have all the replacement parts, still waiting for some to arrive.
anyway i still havent thought of anything to do with the p4 rig now, might be selling proc+mobo+rams+hdd off. so if you guys interested in any parts do let me know thru pm

my RAMs are SDRAMs wor. i think you're looking for DDR rite?

currently using 6800XT. but i think i'll sell it to my friend. he booked the card already ever since i mentioned i'm gonna retire my p4 rig

in all this cod:mw2 madness, just decided to try cod:mw1 on my p4, can't believe it works! hahahaha

running on 1600x900 reso, everything low. but stll some occasional lags here and there.

yeah, still can be used for office use, or torrent rig
even occasional gaming too maybe

of coz new rig
new rig is where all my games are stored. my new rig is at my apartment in KL.
sometimes if i don't bring my rig back to hometown, need some entertainment also..hehe. old rig to play old school games, maybe 1 or 2 new games like PES, or COD..haha

yes, COD4. not really well though, hiccups here and there. maybe coz i'm playing at quite a high reso, but options set to the most low. nothing has to be running other than the game, no msn, browser, etc etc. otherwise will become almost like slideshow

running at 1600x900on 20" lcd. just got it to replce my faulty crt

lol me too, sometimes i do take the power cable off, but never wait for 10 seconds. yeah jcsy, we've been lucky

@raymond,
i think 2gb is the sweet spot for windows xp, and for our p4 systems.

@unknownH,
yeah, i see at garage sales mostly old generation cards, like the ati 9k series or geforce 5 series. newer series quite rare already.

currently don't need agp gc already
i think UnknownH is looking for sm3.0 gc

if can wash then it'll be good
easy to clean, coz i'm lazy to clean up the dust on the mobo and other hardwares

This post has been edited by dlwl: Nov 19 2009, 10:38 AM

fuh...almost spent the whole day setting up my p4 replacement, the athlon x2
seems like the mobo is quite picky on rams. this set of rams was used on a gaygay mobo running dual channel, on this mobo cant. keep giving me restarts at bios. seems like the timings are not right. even tried manual timings, even worse, cant boot at all. maybe some sifu here can help me

Athlon X2 3800+
Abit AN-M2
512MB Mushkin RAM
8500GT
320GB HDD
DVD-ROM

there's another thing, the bios sometimes just hangs at boot, i've to reboot again a few times

Bios is already updated to the latest.
I guess the proc should be ok, if not supported it wouldn't be detected at the startup rite?

btw, i think it's better we proceed to this thread here, don't wanna off topic
http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1233224