[dba-Tech] Building a New Comp

Sorry I missed the reference to SSD... Sky is still the limit on those
babies. ;-)

Jim



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From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jon Tydda
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 9:00 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Building a New Comp

For a 2tb drive?? Buy as many as you can, you'll make a killing over here!


Jon

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On 20 Jun 2011, at 16:51, "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> £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-----
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> [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
> 
> 
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