ptsigas

alright. have an amd athlon 4400 dual core (water cooled)
a8r mvp deluxe mobo
1900xt radeon crossfire ready vidcard.
1gb of generic ram (grabbing ocz next week!)
80gb seagate 7200 IDE HD



basically games run awesome no worries no hassels..
2 cpus show up on taskmanager..no worries..

but i have noticed that windows is not as quick as they made dual core sound.
now i figure it is my HD its only 7200 ide..and my ram is generic pc3200 1gb ddr


so will a nice sata hd or at least 2GB OCz platinum 4000 or 4800 (im grabbing high end ram for overclocking) - allow windows to run a little quicker..i mean its not running like a 486 or nothing but it doesnt feel lightning fast...i still see the hour glass sometimes

also i AM running spysweeper and mcafee incase it is spyware etc..

anyways thanks all in advance and game on!

dipstick

Make sure you've installed the X2 driver and optimizer from AMD, they help quite a bit

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/..._13118,00.html

ptsigas

yup just read about it! thanks for the reply, appreciate it! justh avent restarted cpu justs yet. was reading about this gpu waterblock business. game on!

freakBYnature

Another harddrive will help the loading time that windows uses and the loading time games uses, but not much more than that. A s-ata hdd and a ide-ata drive at the same speed, 7200 rpm is almost the same, and even though i use a sata2 hdd as a maindrive it isnt any faster as regular sata as long as i'm not using it in raid, what makes it faster than the other and the reason for using on os is that my maindrive has more buffer, 16mb buffer instead of 8. I have a western digital caviar sata2 16mb buffer 7200 rpm, and of course i use windows xp x64 - that in itself cuts down loading times in less then half. Of course you can use a raptor that spins 10.000 rpms pr minute, but is it really worth the cost pr gigabyte bought... Come on, 34,7 gb for over a hundred bucks?? I personally think it is to expencive, and the use of sata2 (300gb pr sec) in raid 0 is actually in use faster, but a it's a bit more work with setting it up, you have to have 2 identical drives and ... aahhh... You understand... more work

The main consept is:
IDE-ATA 133 = MAX 133 MegaBIT pr second
S-ATA = MAX 150 MegaBIT pr second
S-ATA2 = MAX 300 MegaBIT pr second

What RAM conserning, I don't use pc3200 anymore myself.
I have Corsair XMS Xtreme TwinX Matched 2048 GB PC4000 myself, and it is faster than "regular" pc3200 But you have to be sure your motherboard supports it

I havent tried OCZ, but I do think it's quality to

ptsigas

yeha the ocz is very nice for overclocking. my board can support some high end stuff just not ddr2, i didnt go down that road as far as win 64..ill have to buy it. but i have been some bad crap about it. now a couple of my friends are using it and they say no problems with win64..but on other forums there are.

BUT if it means a little thing here and there which will be phased out due to upgrades, cut load times and faster 64bit infrastructure then im buying it.

or am i better off grabbing vista when it comes out?

-thanks again for the help!