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Old 12-22-2005, 12:26 AM
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i cant really do newegg anymore since i will just be changing my order with tigerdirect...

i do have sata

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Old 12-22-2005, 12:27 AM
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Originally Posted by Hans
Originally Posted by harofreak00
what do i want...

SATA 3GB/*
Serial ATA-150
Serial ATA-300
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822144417

newegg man.


wait why are you ordering a SATA drive when your motherboard does not support sata????
I believe it supports serial ATA

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Old 12-22-2005, 12:29 AM
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it should support sata but I did not see the connectors on the board. did not research it further.
Old 12-22-2005, 12:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Hans
it should support sata but I did not see the connectors on the board. did not research it further.
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Some information I found while googling.

serial protocols like SATA use 10b8b encoding so every byte transfered on the line consists of 10 bits, not 8. After decoding the channel can provide a hypothetical 300MB/* or 150MB/* transfer rate depending on the SATA generation used. The raw speed though is 3.0 Gb/* or 1.5Gb/*.
Some other remarks indicate that SATA 300 is overkill and that hypothetically although the interface supports it the drive can't transfer that quickly!

Thus, you should be pretty good with SATA-150
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sory the orginal image you posted in your first post did not have sata ports on it.
Old 12-22-2005, 01:07 AM
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ok, thanks guys... i got the order changed to this

Western Digital / Caviar SE / 250GB / 7200 / 8MB / SATA-150 / Hard Drive

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...?Sku=TSD-250JD
Old 12-22-2005, 01:30 AM
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Yea Haro just putting the warning out there, Ive had ALOT of problems with tigerdirect. I know the stuff is cheap but watch everything closley and dont hesitate to call and make sure things are ok and you got what you asked for.
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I've been pricing out buliding a new pc for myself also. If I could suggest a AMD 64 Chip for $10 more (for the AMD 64 3000+) or $30 more (for the AMD 64 3200+) on tigerdirect'* website. For the small price the performance increase over the plain 3000+ would be huge. & a decent mobo could be had for little over 100.

{edit} it looks like you already have a motherboard; never mind.
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good to know garb... i have been using lots of resources for this build... tigerdirect, newegg, frozencpu and ebay..


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