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RodentMeat
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June 14th, 2005 17:00
Memory Question
I am making a Dimension 8400. I am mainly going to play games, but don't have the money for an XPS. I got the Geforce 6800 (is it good?) and a good harddrive and everything, but I have a question about the memory. I know I'm getting a 1GB memory, but I don't know if it's worth it to pay $40 to upgrade it to 533 MHz innstead of 400. I could do that or upgrade 250GB to 320GB Raid 0. Would any of those be helpful with performance or gaming? I have the money, but I don't know if it's worth it. Thanks in advance.
shesagordie
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Posted June 14th, 2005 20:00
RodentMeat.You should think twice about using RAID 0.RAID 0 gives you almost nothing in added performance on the desktop, but doubles your risk of losing everything due to drive failure, therefore be certain, to keep your data backups current.RodentMeat
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Posted June 15th, 2005 01:00
Okay. No RAID 0. But will the +133 Mhz to the RAM help out a lot. I know that 1 GB of RAM is pretty good, but I figured I could upgrade it without going to 2 GB. So, will it help out my performance noticeablely?
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Posted June 14th, 2005 19:00