Recent content by shrimpius

Very sad to hear it. I'm from Russia, but I don't read our hardware sites, because they are crappy. Except one - fcenter . ru - which is just a Russian variant of xbitlabs (because most of the xbitlabs team are Russians). But when I need a good look at the video card I always check TPU! It has...

WD Cavier 640Gb (WD6400AAKS) is the best choise for that amount of money. P5Q Pro is also very good. 7 sata's, 1 e-sata (that's essential for me, as I run 4 hard drives + ODD), 1394. Just put some copper on north mosfets, add wi-fi pci card and it'll be solid as a rock :) Personally, I'd add...

I suggest you to chagne hdd to WD Cavier SE16 640GB, because it's a new one, with 320Gb platters. And you get more room with only 2 platters. Also it's quieter, cooler and last but not least faster. You won't ger more fps (maybe few more maximum), but you'll get faster level boots, faster system...

Thank for your replies guys! :) A friend of mine gave me his old rig for few weeks (until I get mine, shiny and new :P ). It's like my old one, but has 1024Mb ram and geforce 6600GT 128Mb (with oc'ed memory 1000->1125). As I've studied in some vga charts 3450 and 8400 can't match 6600gt...

So my beloved P4P800 died a violent death after some overclocking... A terrible tragedy... Anyway, I was hoping you guys can help me to decide what to buy instead. My old rig was p4 3ghz 1mb (Prescott, and nice one I might add ^_^ ), P4P800 (deluxe), 512Mb DDR 333 (why are you looking at me...