--"Intel has ensured less expensive Core i7 versions,the 920 and 940,will begin throttling back their clock speeds once they reach this threshold. Sadly, it looks like the days in which a $150 CPU is able to reach the performance of a $1,000 processor are over,at least for now. While small...
Any review of comparing WD black with Seagate 7200.12?
I tested the 500gb 7200.12 and WD 640gb black myself using HDtune. The transferate for them are 106MB/s and 94MB/s respectively. Looks, Seagate 7200.12 is abit faster, however the acess time is not impressive, only 14.8ms.
The 750gb one might not be as fast as 640gb one. I am not sure but I think WD uses 3x250gb platters on 750gb drives and 2x320gb platters on 640gb drives.
DEAD--These are dual 320gb platter drives with pretty good reviews--The price went up from $60 to $75.
If you want faster HDs, you may consider seagate single platter 7200.12 for $65 shipped or WD black drives for $70 shipped.
Your Vcore is a bit high to me, I am running my Q6600 @3ghz with P5B deluxe board, the VCore I set in the BIOS is 1.225V, super stable under prime95 test.
My board was pencil modded to decrease the VDroop. Before modded, it required 1.25V in Bios to be stable at 3Ghz.
If you replace your current motherboard, you have to reinstall everything including OS, all drivers.. what a hassle. I don't care whether it is two C2Ds or three C2Ds glued. I can play games with downloading and other applications running at background. I wasn't able to do that with my E4300...
just get a Q6600 and OC it to 3Ghz (mine is running at 3ghz with vcore lowered to 1.25v), paired with 8gb ddr2 RAM(will cost less than $50), pretty fast machine to me.
I think the 32M cache will not impove the performance much, since WD6401aals(dual chip 32M cache) is just slightly faster than WD6400aaks(single chip, 16M cache) link. The Seagate 1TB 7200.12 drive is coming out. It has 32M cache.
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