Hi All,
looking for some advice on putting this box together for 1 of my kids. I've currently got the big switcheroooo getting ready to happen at the home front. With 4 gamers I'm constantly fighting the upgrade battle. I just picked up the new asus sli board for myself (yup spoiled brat) and I'm looking to re-build this other mobo for my son. The new mobo I picked up for my son is a gigabyte GA-7N400 pro2 http://www.giga-byte.com/Mothe...c_GA-7N400V%20Pro2.htm . My question is regarding the SATA or the gigaraid. Coming out of my current teardown I will have available 2 - 120 gig maxtore 7200 spin 8mb cache + 2 80 gig same specs drives. An xp2400+ and a 128 mb BFG 6800 gtoc video card + 1 512 meg pny pc2100 simms. I dont know if it is worth the extra cash to invest in SATA drives or should I use the ones I have available?? I'm waiting for his new case from newegg http://www.newegg.com/app/View...=11-144-007&depa=1 which should be here by Tuesday. The board supports Gigaraid and SATA Raid and I'm unsure as to the best direction to proceed. I've put several boxes toghether but never a machine that supports SATA. Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Oh .. I also have a Thermalake volcano 12 for cpu cooling. This boy Luves his games so I need as much space as I can get.
looking for some advice on putting this box together for 1 of my kids. I've currently got the big switcheroooo getting ready to happen at the home front. With 4 gamers I'm constantly fighting the upgrade battle. I just picked up the new asus sli board for myself (yup spoiled brat) and I'm looking to re-build this other mobo for my son. The new mobo I picked up for my son is a gigabyte GA-7N400 pro2 http://www.giga-byte.com/Mothe...c_GA-7N400V%20Pro2.htm . My question is regarding the SATA or the gigaraid. Coming out of my current teardown I will have available 2 - 120 gig maxtore 7200 spin 8mb cache + 2 80 gig same specs drives. An xp2400+ and a 128 mb BFG 6800 gtoc video card + 1 512 meg pny pc2100 simms. I dont know if it is worth the extra cash to invest in SATA drives or should I use the ones I have available?? I'm waiting for his new case from newegg http://www.newegg.com/app/View...=11-144-007&depa=1 which should be here by Tuesday. The board supports Gigaraid and SATA Raid and I'm unsure as to the best direction to proceed. I've put several boxes toghether but never a machine that supports SATA. Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Oh .. I also have a Thermalake volcano 12 for cpu cooling. This boy Luves his games so I need as much space as I can get.
