Serial ATA150 HDD?
 

Hey guys,

I have a pretty powerful PC:

2.8 Ghz P4
1 gig ram
256MB Vid Card
100GB 7200 RPM ATA100 HDD

I was thinking of buying a SATA150 card and a Raptor 10000RPM drive just for PT, PokerOffice, and Poker Clients. Hoping it would improve performance, because I tend to lag when I am super multi-tabling, chatting on AIM, running WinAmp, and posting on 2p2.

Do you think this would help?

Re: Serial ATA150 HDD?
 

it's one of the more reasonable upgrades you can make for applications that are io-bound. poker tables, instant messengers, mp3 players, and web browsers are not notable in this regard, but pokertracker and its heads up displays have extensive disk access.

Re: Serial ATA150 HDD?
 

Sweet.

PokerOffice is the main program that causes the lag. So I think it'd be worth the 150 or so to do it.

Although, I guess since I have 0 ability to fathom or properly spend money anymore, it really doesn't matter.

Re: Serial ATA150 HDD?
 

Wait, what about getting a SCSI card and getting a 15000RPM drive??

Re: Serial ATA150 HDD?
 

a fujitsu mau3073n costs about $370 by itself and it would be another $100-$150 for an lsi logic/adaptec scsi hba...

Re: Serial ATA150 HDD?
 

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Hey guys,

I have a pretty powerful PC:

2.8 Ghz P4
1 gig ram
256MB Vid Card
100GB 7200 RPM ATA100 HDD

I was thinking of buying a SATA150 card and a Raptor 10000RPM drive just for PT, PokerOffice, and Poker Clients. Hoping it would improve performance, because I tend to lag when I am super multi-tabling, chatting on AIM, running WinAmp, and posting on 2p2.

Do you think this would help?

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Get another Gig of ram...its cheap and worth it for serious multi-tasking

Re: Serial ATA150 HDD?
 

he can hit ctrl-shift-esc and look at 'peak commit charge' under the performance tab after using his computer regularly for a while without a reboot. unless it's over 1048044, he doesn't need any more memory.

Re: Serial ATA150 HDD?
 

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Hey guys,

I have a pretty powerful PC:

2.8 Ghz P4
1 gig ram
256MB Vid Card
100GB 7200 RPM ATA100 HDD

I was thinking of buying a SATA150 card and a Raptor 10000RPM drive just for PT, PokerOffice, and Poker Clients. Hoping it would improve performance, because I tend to lag when I am super multi-tabling, chatting on AIM, running WinAmp, and posting on 2p2.

Do you think this would help?

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Get another Gig of ram...its cheap and worth it for serious multi-tasking

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My mobo only supports 1GB. So that upgrade would be a new mobo, and new RAM.