[thelist] I am looking into the possibility of replacing my

Kevin krr at ix.netcom.com
Sun Aug 19 15:23:15 CDT 2001


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> From: "rick" <rolson at otn.net>
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> Subject: Re: [thelist] I am looking into the possibility of replacing my
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> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 17:54:11 -0700
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> When they advertise a 200 or 266 FSB, it's really 100 or 133, but it
> transmits on the rising and the falling of the clock cycle (like in DDR
> SDRAM).  So, the Asus A7V133 does in fact have the 266Mhz FSB that the
other
> socket A KT133A boards have.  The 133 is misleading there.
>
> From personal experience, I'd go with the Abit KT7A.  I've been using it
and
> it's older brother the Abit KT7, and it has ran flawlessly for me.  The
BIOS
> is excellent, with tons of options for tweaking if you get adventurous...
> RAID would be nice, and is only about $20-$30 extra, so why not?  However,
> mirroring obviously won't get you any performance benefits (but it gives
you
> some fault tolerance).  Striping is fast, but I wouldn't consider it vital
> by any means.
>
> rick
>

Can you commment on RAID?

I was working on some images yesterday for a friend.
They averaged about 30mb's a piece. They will be used in brochures
instead of  on the web. I was using Paint Shop Pro 7 on a win2k, 400mb's ram
AMD 550 K7V Asus, Voodoo 3 2k vid card, to do the work.

Besides scanning them in at 600 dpi which took about 3+ minutes each for the
process, My computer was extremely slow and sluggish throught the operation.
What could have been a few hours ended up taken most of the day.

Where would raid come in?
I am asking myself if my drives were configured for raid would it not double
my
read write speed? And if so could I not set up just one sector of the drives
so that
I would use it only when I am working in such a situation.

I do plan to upgrade the mobo and the cpu but not for a couple months. Have
to save my
banana bucks. ;-)  In the mean time would a raid setup help me out? I have
to buy another
hard drive anyway as my drive is pretty much full up. Have been thinking of
getting one of
7200, ata 100, 60 gig hard drives from western.

I guess the real point here is, How could I bill a client for my work on an
hourly rate if my
system is really sluggish. I rebuilt 8 images. Some minor and some major.


any insight would be appreciated
Thank You
Kevin






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