Building a new PC...Should I reuse my PC 2100 memory and ATA drives?

[mtschirret]

Hi All:

I'm building a new PC, and going with an Athlon 64 3500+ Venice (939) and a MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum mobo. My question is this: should I reuse my 1GB of DDR SDRAM Unbuffered DDR 266 (PC 2100) and matched Ultra ATA 5400 RPM 100MB drives? I'd like to save the money and setup a RAID 0 config, but also want to make sure I'm getting everything I can out of the new CPU. I've confirmed that the memory and drives are compatible with the mobo.

I suspect that the drives are a bit of a drag on my current system (Intel 2.4), so does it make sense to upgrade to SATA II? And will I even notice a difference if I reuse the memory?

Any help would be appreciated!

Best Regards,

Michael Tschirret

 

[jpeyton]

The truth is, coming from a P4 2.4, everything will seem faster no matter how slow the memory or hard drive is.

But with the memory and hard drive prices so cheap nowadays (i.e. 1GB Dual Channel PC3200 for $65, and 7200RPM PATA/SATA Hard Drives for $70 or less) it certainly wouldn't break the bank to have your system running at full speed.

 

[poisonthewell]

Yes you should definitely upgrade those 100MB drives.

 

[JDCentral]

I'm assuming you meant 100GB drives, as opposed to 100MB?

I'd say re-use the drives - if you buy another one, get a faster one to store the OS and program on, and use the other two for data storage.

if you DID mean 100Mb... for sure get a new HD. And then Raid-mirror the 100MB and use it for critical document storage

 

[Twsmit]

Memory can be reused with little performance hit, but the HDD should be relegated to storage or thrown out. A 5400RPM drive is orribly slow. You should pick up a 80-120GB SATA drive, use that to boot off of and for Windows etc... and put your ATA drives on the IDE channel and use them for storage.

 

[t3h l337 n3wb]

You can't install any current OS an a 100MB drive So I'm suure he meant 100GB

 

[keeleysam]

Originally posted by: t3h l337 n3wb
You can't install any current OS an a 100MB drive So I'm suure he meant 100GB

Actually you can do an instqall of linux with like 2 MB... but i digress...


For the OP, get a nice Western Digital 80 or 120Gb hard drive for OS and programs, and keep teh 100MB's for your stuff.