1gb of ram or a new 10k hard drive?

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dudezer88

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Sorry if this has already been asked, but what would improve my system performance more? Getting a 10k rpm Raptor or doubling my system memory to 1gb. Right now I have
p4 2.66 OC'd to 3.2
512mb Patriot Extreme Performance
80gb Maxtor ATA 133
Radeon X800 pro

I'm mostly looking to reduce loading times on games.
 
ram. thats my vote.. a 10k raptor against a 7.2k sata HDD has only a bit (or more) of increase in performance and hdd access times. theres still needs to be somewhere teh pc can dump the files into for processing.. my two cents..
 
hmm.. raid 0.. cant remember if that was adding to give the total, or mirror or 1/2 1/2..

you can try.. only 15$.. then gives you another 2 ide channels to play with.. one for your 10k raptor.. after you get the ram that is...
 
as a workstation you will not see much advantage in using raid 0
raid 1 would be better saves data
I would opt for the ram this will make machine faster
adding another drive does not increase machine preformance much
now if you did 4 disc raid 2 this access would be very fast
 
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