Here's my specs, what's my next upgrade?

[LastStop]

- Soltek SL-75DRV2
- AthlonXP 1900+
- 256MB PC3000
- Geforce3 ti200
- Onboard audio
- NIC/Modem
- 8.4GB IBM Deskstar 8
- 14.4GB IBM Deskstar 14GXP
- HP CDRW 8x/4x/24x

What's next? I'm thinking hard drive(s) since they only support ATA33. Will my computer be that much faster if I get an ATA100 drive? My next option would be adding another stick of memory and a SB Audigy which comes with there version of a 1394 port.

BTW, I'm have 100mb free on my 14gig drive

 

[Guest]

Upgrade your HD, since your don't have enough space. Having only 100mb free will decrease the speed.

 

[AMD_Man]

Hard drive and sound card for sure!! Those hard drives you have are old and slow. A new 7200RPM hard drive will greatly improve disk performance and boot up time.

AMD technology + Intel technology = Intel/AMD Pentathlon IV; the <b>ULTIMATE</b> PC processor

 

[buckman666]

a lot of people dont think of that, but buy, lets say, a 20 gig 7200 rpm drive, along with a raid pci card and 2 60 gig 7200 rpm drives with somthing like 4 or 8 meg of cache... ide raid is doing fin, i've got that for 5 months now, stable and pretty fast too. the difference is that my raid controller (promise) is on-board... and if you do a lot of cd-burning stuff, consider buying something like the new plextor 20/10, something fast wich will match with your system. pretty nice system, too.
congratulation

 

[LastStop]

Amazingly those HD's are running at 7200rpm. I believe the thing that is slowing my system down is not the rotational speed but the transfer speed.

It takes me at least 5 minutes to do a clean reboot of win2k pro. It takes me 30secs to come of Hibernate mode.

 

[Kelledin]

Well, you might as well upgrade the hard drive. I'd upgrade to an offboard sound card right after that.

<i>If a server crashes in a server farm and no one pings it, does it still cost four figures to fix?

 

[AMD_Man]

It takes me at least 5 minutes to do a clean reboot of win2k pro. It takes me 30secs to come of Hibernate mode.

Wow!! THAT IS SLOW! You should be getting ~1min boot time with a modern hard drive.

AMD technology + Intel technology = Intel/AMD Pentathlon IV; the <b>ULTIMATE</b> PC processor

 

[LastStop]

Wow!! THAT IS SLOW! You should be getting ~1min boot time with a modern hard drive.

That's exacltly what I thought. My old system (PIII 450/1024mb PC133) would boot win2k in about the same amount of time. Well...I guess I got to spends some more money.

 

[Guest]

that's really slow. I am using a PIII 533 with 256 ram and 15 GB quantum 7200 ATA33 HD. It takes about 1 min to boot. But I have 4 GB empty space. Get a new HD!