> 1) Well, it does seem to be a good decision to go in for RDRAM with P-IV.
> Generally, users have gone in for SDRAM with P-IV, ending up with wasting
> their money. P-IV gives the speed advantage only with RDRAM. But it would
be
> worthwhile to consider, P-IV with RDRAM should be roughly three times the
> speed of an P-III SDRAM machine 1 GHz. And anyways, motherboard speed is
> going to be limited at 400 MHz, so is it worthwhile.
I have a dell p4 1.5 ghz machine with 256mb rdram at office. And i have a
amd 1ghz system with pc 133 sdram @ home, and i don't notice any speed
difference unless i am encoding divx movies (something i do overnight
anyway, so i don't really care!) And in no way will a p4 1.6/1.7 will
perform at 3 times the speed of a p3-1ghz., unless the app is specially
written for the p4 and poorly written for the p3.
> 2) Well, whichever CD-RW you buy, make sure its genuine, believe me,
almost
> all the CD Drives in Nehru Place are fake. Creative CD-ROM drive 8x at my
> university still works, and the latest ones don't.
This is nonsense. The reason why most of the nehru place drives don't really
work for long in delhi is twofold, one is that the dust causes a lot of
problems (this is something that affects the faster drives more than than
the slower ones) and the other is that nowadays cd rom drives are generally
made using processes and materials that produce cheaper drives, but drives
which typically don't last longer. If you open an older 4x/8x drive and a
new 52x drive, you will notice that the components in the older drives are
much better.
> 3) Think well about the chipset on the Video Card, rather than the amount
of
> memory.
I agree completely with this. And even with the same chipset, i have
seen that there are serious performence differences between cards
manufactured by different companies. I had a geforce 2 mx with 64mb ram
which was actually slower than an asus geforce 2 mx with 32mb ram. This was
because the no name 64mb card used ram that were not upto specs for a
geforce 2 mx card, and hence that was running slower. And when i overclocked
the asus card, i cud get almost 50% perf boot!
> 4) I would suggest you go in for an 80 GB HDD, price difference should be
> around 1K - 1.5 K. 40 GB Seagate is around 4K. 80 GB should be around 5.5
K.
And do make sure that it is a 7200rpm hdd. That makes a sloid difference. I
remember, last time i did a test, i cud install red hat 6.2 everything in
approx 30 mins to a 5400rpm hdd and on the same machine in less than 18 mins
with a 7200rpm hdd..
> 6) My samsung keyboard is working wonderful after 2.5 years, never had any
> problem, costs far less than an TVSE. Well, for an high end machine,
> consider a Microsoft one, is awkward in the beginning due to its design,
but
> is far better once you get accustomed.
This depends a lot on the ammount of abuse your keyboard sees. At my home a
temporary samsung keyboard had some dead keys in less than 2 months after my
bro wud play games on that. But my TVSE has survived 3+ years of such
pounding. Also I have seen that many of the microsoft keyboards available in
nehru place come with horrible keys, and they go bad real fast.
> 7) Speakers never work upto the specs mentioned, consider getting one
custom
> built, or test it properly.
Best solution to the speakers problem is to go in for name brand speakers
(creative, etc) or just plug your computer into a home stereo system if this
is going to be your home comp.
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