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11-02-2005, 06:04 PM
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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? 
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#2
11-02-2005, 06:13 PM
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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.
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#3
11-02-2005, 06:18 PM
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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.
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#5
11-02-2005, 06:34 PM
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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...
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#6
11-02-2005, 07:23 PM
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Re: Serial ATA150 HDD?
[ QUOTE ]
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? [/ QUOTE ] Get another Gig of ram...its cheap and worth it for serious multi-tasking
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#7
11-02-2005, 07:40 PM
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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.
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#8
11-03-2005, 03:58 AM
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Re: Serial ATA150 HDD?
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ] 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? [/ QUOTE ] Get another Gig of ram...its cheap and worth it for serious multi-tasking [/ QUOTE ] My mobo only supports 1GB. So that upgrade would be a new mobo, and new RAM.
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