2-2-2-5-1t?

[GetCarter]

Besides Corsair, what Brand do some of you suggest for a DIMM which can run on 2-2-2-5-1T settings?




Ooooh, and a side question: Difference between Serial and Parallel ATA?

[Colossus]

Well a lot of brands can run 2-2-2-5 T1 with extra voltage or within the rated speeds

Such as Kingston HyperX, Corsair... (I like those brands alot!)

Also the difference is connection type

The drives are identical (except for the Raptor) to their PATA model.. Except with a SATA interface...

I connected my 200GB WD SE drive to my SATA port (with a SATA->PATA) and the performance was identical under Sandra... I didnt test it extensively...

SATA also only allows 1 connection per cable.. Since it is Serial and not Parallel

[jagojago12]

Some notable improvements over Parallel ATA with Serial ATA is that it's faster. It currently has a peak transfer rate of 150MB/sec, with 300MB/sec and 600MB/sec being possibilities in future revisions.

SATA is also less prone to interference, is capable of having longer cable lengths, has smaller cable width to improve case airflow, supports all 3 DC voltages (3.3V, 5V, and 12V) and the best of all, it is hot pluggable. You don't need to power off a system for a Serial ATA drive to be recognized.

[GetCarter]

Okay, so, PATA is just SATA but allows multiple connections but PATA drives were born earlier than SATA drives, or SATA drives have been 'upgraded' recently rather.

About the memory, beesides Kingston, Corsair, theres other brands i've heard of. Mushkin for example, but Mushkin sounds like, well, a noname brand, and the problem is theres tons of memory brands and they can't all be bad!

[Colossus]

Originally posted by jagojago12
Some notable improvements over Parallel ATA with Serial ATA is that it's faster. It currently has a peak transfer rate of 150MB/sec, with 300MB/sec and 600MB/sec being possibilities in future revisions.

SATA is also less prone to interference, is capable of having longer cable lengths, has smaller cable width to improve case airflow, supports all 3 DC voltages (3.3V, 5V, and 12V) and the best of all, it is hot pluggable. You don't need to power off a system for a Serial ATA drive to be recognized.

I thought the second gen was hot pluggable only??? Sorry I didnt keep up with the SATA, I'll wait for the new chip SATAII before I go SATA completely.. Even though I have 2 Raptors now to play around with

Part of the reason SATA is not worth it is drive limitations... When I put my PATA drive on a SATA channel with a PATA->SATA converter. I didnt see any difference...

So I wonder if the speed of the 7200rpm drives are maxed out and we would only see a difference with 10k rpm and up.. Such as the Raptor...

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Yes Mushkin is pretty good.. But I havent used them before...

[yanguboris]

Colossus do you notice any performance increases going from a regular 7200RPM hard drive to the raptors? I'm thinking 2 raptors in a striped-RAID setup, with a giant 200GB IDE drive for storage would be good for my next system. But when running the OS and games off of the raptors, does it actually run faster? Do you get slightly better framerates or benchmarks?

[Colossus]

The game itself would not run faster.. But you would have a faster load time...

I havent stripped the drives yet... But a single drive alone is pretty snappy...

[GetCarter]

And those are SATA?

[Colossus]

Yes the 36GB Western Digital SATA drive are SATA

[speed freak]

at what speeds?

The Buffalo that I tested did 216 (4 slots populated, and all were 512MB = 2048MB) and I hit 216 @ the MOST aggressive timings!

[Kaizen]

so what difference do these memory timings make?

I got Mushkin ram rated at 2.5 cas.. and I got my settings now on 6-2-2-2 and I have NO idea what that means haha

just pickin what #'s I see the rest of you guys use.. using stock memory voltage too.

[GetCarter]

The lower, the better. The numbers refer to clock cycles, the lower the better.