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Rubbing my hands in anticipation
Yup, I am itching to upgrade my slowest machine with an AMD64.
I'm anxiously waiting 'til the next price drop for AMD64 CPUs - which I have read hereabouts will be after the Venice processor is introduced either at the end of this month or early next month. I'm not really interested in OC'ing, so I probably will shoot for a 3500 Winchester (heh, no pun intended there...really!). Also, I definitely want to be able to raid my 4 existing 80 GB parallel ATA drives - probably just RAID 0, tho. Earlier, I was thinking of using a promise sx4000 raid board to do some dedicated raid 5 for a bit of data security, as it just means a loss of 1 drive for the parity checking. However, in order to have good performance with that setup, the Promise sx4000 raid card should be in a 64 bit slot. That would then limit my options somewhat for mobos - so I guess I have pared my plan back to just raid 0, which many mobo's handle quite well, and will swear a solemn oath to backup my system more frequently. So, anybody have reco's or such on mobo's that I should look at? Thanks. |
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