Heyas,
Two things: first, I notice almost every benchmark I find uses the IBM Deskstar hard drive standard, and I'm curious: what's the difference between a run-of-the-mill $130 30 GB IBM ata100/7200 rpm hard drive and a $155 IBM ata100/7200 rpm deskstar? Is the non-deskstar hard drive any better than an equivalent Maxtor or Western Digital hard drive?
Second question, tom's hardware mentions that the alpha pep66t hsf is a particularly heavy 373 grams, and from a picture that looks to be the case. Worse, it clips on rather than screws on. Still, Anandtech's review cites that it cools well and runs quietly. Even better, it's $40 with the super-fan as opposed to the $80 swiftech beast. My question is if a hsf of this magnitude will offer a problem or if it'll crush the CPU. If so, there's no way around it I assume? I'll have to settle for a different cooling solution?
Thanks in advance for the help.
Two things: first, I notice almost every benchmark I find uses the IBM Deskstar hard drive standard, and I'm curious: what's the difference between a run-of-the-mill $130 30 GB IBM ata100/7200 rpm hard drive and a $155 IBM ata100/7200 rpm deskstar? Is the non-deskstar hard drive any better than an equivalent Maxtor or Western Digital hard drive?
Second question, tom's hardware mentions that the alpha pep66t hsf is a particularly heavy 373 grams, and from a picture that looks to be the case. Worse, it clips on rather than screws on. Still, Anandtech's review cites that it cools well and runs quietly. Even better, it's $40 with the super-fan as opposed to the $80 swiftech beast. My question is if a hsf of this magnitude will offer a problem or if it'll crush the CPU. If so, there's no way around it I assume? I'll have to settle for a different cooling solution?
Thanks in advance for the help.
