Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Mon Jun 20 10:51:13 CDT 2011
£3000 is about $4600 here...drives are so much more expensive there. Here they can be had for $79. Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Tydda Jon - Slough Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 8:35 AM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Building a New Comp Tell him not to bother taking the old hard drive out unless it's really fast. You'll want a large cache on the drive, as well as high rpm (my last one was 10k)/access speeds, 8gb is good, 16gb is better. For a really fast pc, you might want to look into two hard drives - one Solid State Drive for the C drive (say 250gb), and a normal one for the Data drive. SSDs are faster, quieter, and run cooler than normal drives, but are a little expensive at the moment (I saw a 2TB for sale at £3000 a month or two back!!). Jon -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin Sent: 20 June 2011 16:29 To: List; 'Off Topic' Subject: [dba-Tech] Building a New Comp After a trip to Fry's Noah has spec'd a new comp to build. Any advice here? He's going to take the HD from his current box (7200rpm) and put it in the new box. He's doing some on-line gaming so the graphics card is important. (Myself - I think I'm going with the Dell i7 - ~$1000 but maybe a deal will pop up in the next couple days) TIA Rocky _____ From: Noah Sutton-Smolin [mailto:heedleblambeedle at gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011 9:35 AM To: Rocky Smolin Subject: Document Totals to $789 with the ram I want, but if I can get DDR5 10600 then I'd rather go for that. If so, the total will likely be $809-$819 Case: CM HAF 912 ($60) Motherboard: GA-Z86MA-D2H-B3 (http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3855#ov) ($99) Processor: Core i7 Gen II, quad core (LGA1155) ($300) Graphics card: GTX 560 Ti - 500W ($230) Power supply: 600W (missing model) ($50) 8GB RAM: http://www.frys.com/product/6522023 (hopefully) ($50) Total: $789 _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com This communication and its attachments, if any, may contain confidential and privileged information the use of which by other persons or entities than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you receive this transmission in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete the material from your system. _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com