thehighroad
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Hi guys.
These are fairly common questions, and according to the pages I found with search, these have been often partially answered.
1. I do some gaming, and am finding that even though I recently upgraded my CPU from an Athlon 64 3500+ to a Q8200 things are still kind of slow (Windows usage mainly). I assume this is from harddrive bottlenecking. I am currently using a 7200RPM 160GB IDE hdd, LOW bandwidth, correct?
2. If I upgraded to a SATA (3gbit/s bandwidth vs 100mbit/s) would my performance and speed improve a lot?
3. Should I keep the IDE for a secondary and use it for backup, and the windows paging file etc. or is it too damn slow? I know that raid arrays are made of several sata's so I assume IDEs are incompatible.
4. My windows xp installation is an OEM pre-installed copy (i have activated it twice already b/c of other hardware changes). Will I be able to seamlessly transfer the OS to my new sata hdd should I purchase it, by simultaneously connecting them to my pc as other threads have suggested?
EDIT: Oh, I almost forgot, will I require any special software, I read in another thread someone tried to use Norton Ghost and had some problems. One of the main problems is I'm almost out of space as well.
Any answers would be of great help.
Thanks,
TheHighRoad
These are fairly common questions, and according to the pages I found with search, these have been often partially answered.
1. I do some gaming, and am finding that even though I recently upgraded my CPU from an Athlon 64 3500+ to a Q8200 things are still kind of slow (Windows usage mainly). I assume this is from harddrive bottlenecking. I am currently using a 7200RPM 160GB IDE hdd, LOW bandwidth, correct?
2. If I upgraded to a SATA (3gbit/s bandwidth vs 100mbit/s) would my performance and speed improve a lot?
3. Should I keep the IDE for a secondary and use it for backup, and the windows paging file etc. or is it too damn slow? I know that raid arrays are made of several sata's so I assume IDEs are incompatible.
4. My windows xp installation is an OEM pre-installed copy (i have activated it twice already b/c of other hardware changes). Will I be able to seamlessly transfer the OS to my new sata hdd should I purchase it, by simultaneously connecting them to my pc as other threads have suggested?
EDIT: Oh, I almost forgot, will I require any special software, I read in another thread someone tried to use Norton Ghost and had some problems. One of the main problems is I'm almost out of space as well.
Any answers would be of great help.
Thanks,
TheHighRoad