http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822136033
WD updated both the 36.7 and the 74GB drives. Previous drives only had 8MB of cache available. Now it has been bumped up to twice the size of the previous cache, up to 16MB.
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Archive for May 25th, 2006
So my system at work started to act up. It’s a three year old system and I believe the motherboard was showing signs of wear and tear. I went ahead and decided to sell my remaining system and start anew. I purchased a motherboard, processor and video card.
I went with an AMD X2 3800+ Manchester retail boxed processor. I found this on a for sale forum and got it at a decent price too. This will be my first dual-core chip that I will be working with. The reason why I decided to opt for a chip that is even better than my home system is that all I do at work is multitask between many things. I believe the dual-core processor will benefit me much more while at work than at home.
For the motherboard, I went with an ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe. This board is basically the cream of the crop of the nVidia nForce 4 chipset right now - along with some of the other DFI motherboards which many overclocking enthusiasts recommend as well.
Last but not least, the video card. I went with an eVGA 6600GT PCI-Express 1xVGA, 1xDVI outputs and also I believe TV-Out. For work, obviously, I don’t need a bad-ass graphics card since I won’t be gaming while at work. But, I thought I would not cheap out on this system anyway so I went with what I thought was a great choice. I would have bought a second hand video card but unfortunately, eVGA does not allow people to transfer warranties and for that sake and that sake only, I did not want to take a chance with a second hand card.
Oh, I also forgot, I also had to buy a new case since I donated my other case to our file server at work. I went with an Antec P180. I would have gone with the P180B had it been available here. It is not. It probably won’t be for another several months too. I would purchase it online but shipping is outrageous and probably nearing $50+ just to ship a case to where I’m at.
I hope that no hiccups occur while putting my new unit together. The unit will be coupled with a Western Digital 36.7GB Raptor hard drive and a 500W Rosewill PSU for the mean time while I save some cash for a new Seasonic S12-600W PSU. I will be reusing my memory, Crucial Ballistix PC4000 that was used in my previous system as well.
I will update this post with maybe a small review of how it handles my everyday tasks while at work. I hope you all enjoyed this weird blog of mine. Take it easy.
I just wanted to let you all know that you are all seeing news articles and postings from www.digg.com, which is a very interesting site in that there are many users and every user posts stories to this central website. In this website, there is an option to blog any entry I find interesting. Hopefully you all enjoy it. Have a great day.
The House Judiciary Committee is going to “mark up” Representatives Sensenbrenner and Conyers’ good Net Neutrality bill this morning. Urge them to support the Sensenbrenner-Conyers “Internet Freedom and Nondiscrimination Act of 2006″ (HR 5417) in the Judiciary Committee today, and to support it without amendment.