KATO33 0 #1 August 28, 2004 I’m looking to upgrade My Dell XPS R 450 it’s served me well but it’s time for some new hotness. My concern is will the Existing components be compatible with the new Mobo. Also does any one see any thing that I forgot or don’t need? New Components Case……………ANTEC Performance Plus Case with 430W Power Supply, Model "PLUS1080AMG Memory……….Mushkin Blue Dual Pack 184 Pin 1GB(512MBx2) DDR PC-3200 Motherboard….ABIT i875P Chipset Motherboard for Intel Socket 478 CPU, Model "IC7-MAX3 Processor………Intel Pentium 4/ 3.0C GHz 800MHz FSB, 512KB L2 Cache, Hyper Threading Technology Existing components DVD…………….Acer 16x DVD-ROM 40x CD-ROM CD-Writer……...HP Cdwriter Plus 8100 series Floppy…………...NEC Primary HDD…...Maxtor 20GB On PCI SCSI (OS) Secondary HDD…Western Digital 80GB ON PCI SCSI (File Storage) Vid Card…………STB System Inc. 128MB (Came with Dell XPS 450) Blue Skies Black Death Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
xsynergist 0 #2 August 28, 2004 Maybe a cooling fan for your proc and a DVD-RW? The rest should work. You have 2 SCSI HD's running off of a PCI card? Seems like the on board serial ATA would smoke em. I would look at the throughput first to be sure. Some of those ULTRA SCSI drives are fast. Enjoy your new box. Cheers------------------------------------------------ Why get married? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zenister 0 #3 August 28, 2004 get a new graphics card..____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PhreeZone 20 #4 August 28, 2004 Upgrade the Video card. Also look at upgrading to RAID. its super nice knowing if you have a sector crash everything is on drive 2 and able to run on just a reboot Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tunaplanet 0 #5 August 28, 2004 Ask Ivan. He is extremely knowledgable in computers. Forty-two Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mattjw916 2 #6 August 28, 2004 SCSI is an unnecessary expenditure for personal computers... too much cost for little return. SCSI is better suited for a serving multiple requests from multiple clients etc... SATA is a better choice for a home system and more cost effective as well. If you intend on playing modern games you really need a better video card as well rather than the antique Dell one. P.S. If you really wanna blow some money go for a SATA raid setup... personally I wouldn't even bother running with any redundancy i.e. RAID 1 or 5 on a home system and stick with RAID 0 for all out speed... If you are worried about losing your pr0n collection back it up on DVD or something. NSCR-2376, SCR-15080 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CrazyIvan 0 #7 August 28, 2004 QuoteAsk Ivan. He is extremely knowledgable in computers. Wow, after reading this, I feel obligated to answer . Ok, this is my opinion: For personal home computers I like to keep things effective, functional and SIMPLE, a good setup would be 2 HD (the 2nd one for data storage and backup), the odds of 2 HD going bad at the same time are very very very slim, to give you an example, all my systems at home have 2 HD, and I do that I mentioned above, in my case, I don't care about "regular" backups since I use Ghost and have 2 copies of my system (a current and a previous in case something goes wrong), also, you could use other imaging software, I prefer imaging because it contains EVERYTHING, but if you like, you can only backup the data you need, the only drawback is that if your system fails OR you want to upgrade to a larger HD you'll have to start from scratch, if you had an image, just lay it on the new HD and you're done. I personally like IDE (ATA or SATA) nowadays HD are very fast, so why bother with SCSI. Of course, your system has to be equipped with a CDRW or a DVD writer, they are getting more affordable, and you can also burn your images (if you take that path) to DVD, so if BOTH HD die, you still have a copy SOMEWHERE ELSE, in other words, you have to have REDUNDANCY, it saves a lot of pain, trust me. My 2 cents.__________________________________________ Blue Skies and May the Force be with you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KATO33 0 #8 August 28, 2004 So is it the general concensus that the SCSI is not neccessary. The only reason I used it is it came with the new 80 Gig Hard Drive Blue Skies Black Death Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RevJim 0 #9 August 28, 2004 It's overkill, yes, but since you already have it, hell yea, use it! Set up IDE as your boot drive, and use the SCSI as a video editing disk.It's your life, live it! Karma RB#684 "Corcho", ASK#60, Muff#3520, NCB#398, NHDZ#4, C-33989, DG#1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
