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A very minor suggestion, but a suggestion all the same... I would switch that Seagate Barracuda 250GB 16MB Cache for a Western Digital Caviar 250GB 16MB Cache at the same price.

Some recent benchmarks I read made it clear to me that as of late the WD disks have much better performance when it comes to opening applications and other disk access activies, and I plan to make the switch myself soon even though I have been a Seagate user for years.
 
Where'd you see that, Úlfhednar? I'd be interested in reading that. From what I've seen (Which I admit is not much) the 7200.10s outperform nearly everything short of a Raptor or some silly SCSI arrays becasue they use fancy new perpendicular recroding tech.
 
BillytheImpaler said:
Where'd you see that, Úlfhednar? I'd be interested in reading that. From what I've seen (Which I admit is not much) the 7200.10s outperform nearly everything short of a Raptor or some silly SCSI arrays becasue they use fancy new perpendicular recroding tech.
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I really wanted to post a link to the benchmarks as I know how some people around here can be about not backing up comments, but I don't even remember what site they were on and I never read hard disk reviews as it is, a friend showed me them.

They were on a site I regularly read though, so try Anandtech and Xbit Labs for starters as they tend to cover HDDs way more often than sites like Tom's and FiringSquad. The results were a rather impressionable result for the Caviars, I know I am switching.

Pretty much identical gaming performance and stuff, but as I said before disk access and program loading definitely had a shot in the arm over the Barracudas that were put up against it, and I think my Barracuda 120GB is in its death throes at the moment as MSN, Firefox and Thunderbird take all day to load up now even if I do a fresh Windows install. :o
 
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I was under the impression that the 7200.10s had greater data density and as such were able to reads data faster once it had been through a seek cycle to find it. It about equals the Raptor in all areas of performance except for seeking.
 
i have downgraded my graphincs card for the time being, my spec now looks like this:

HD-079-SE Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB ST3250620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-079-SE)
£52.55 £52.55
MB-011-IN Intel DP965LT 965 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-011-IN)
£74.95 £74.95
GX-032-BG BFG GeForce 7300 GT OC 256MB DDR2 HDTV/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-032-BG) £45.95
CA-000-SS Seasonic S12 430W Silent ATX2.0 Power Supply (CA-000-SS)
£39.95 £39.95
CD-045-LG LG GSA-H10NBAL 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM (CD-043-LG)
£20.50 £20.50
CP-128-IN Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail (CP-128-IN)
£214.95 £214.95
MY-058-GL GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC) (MY-058-GL)
£109.95 £109.95
Subtotal £558.80

ok, so anything else I should add to this, probably need a case to put it all in:D, any recommendations for a nice, easy to build into case?
 
you need a sexah case to go with that now :)

Super Lanboy is uber cheap atm, or if you wanna spend a little more get a Lian-Li PC7 :)
 
Would this be ok,

Antec Super LANBOY Aluminum Super Mini Tower Case - No PSU (CA-012-AN

I like the looks and it's only £30, but will a Mini Tower be big enough for all the bits I need to put into it.
 
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