Hiya Tweakboy,
A bit late for this thread but many weeks ago I replaced my HD with an SSD.
My OS was (and is) Windows-XP 32bits, my old motherboard was an Abit IP35-E which only can do SATA 1st gen. The SSD is 3rd Gen.
The difference was like night and day (/gigle).
Even on Sata-1 with...
I had a similar board, 775DUAL-SATA2 and it served me very well.
You are right in that you want to loose that P4, any C2D will be faster.
I have no experience with the board in combination with a Wolfdale but those have an FSB of 1066 or 1333MHz. You will be safe with any Conroe with an 800...
Hi Nawlins, and welcome to the boards.
In general the hardware you have there is fine. Several people made comments about it that are perfectly valid and true but with these parts you will get a machine that works reliable.
When putting the parts together and booting up the 1st time the...
Like a few others I disagree with Topweasel here.
I replaced my harddisk with an SSD a few weeks ago and the difference is like night and day.
My motherboard only supports SATA-1 so in the best case it can only reach speed of 120-ish megabytes per second in benchmarks.
In normal use...
You currently have a Pentium-4 based CPU.
When I replaced my P4 2800MHz with hyperthreading with an E4400 Conroe (2000MHz) my computer was twice as fast instantly (single-core applications/games) when everything else was the same (Asrock Conroe motherboard: only swapped the CPU, same RAM, no...
I agree with Spidey07,
The signal from the antenna is directional, more or less donut-shaped, so right above it is a bad spot. If your current router has only 1 antenna you are a bit out of luck since you can't aim it at all directions. If it has 2 adjustable antennas you can aim one...
Hi Adam,
I voted Intel E6600 since you already have a motherboard to put it in and I asume you will aquire it cheaply. For your HTPC you will want to use a seperate graphicscard, do you have one in your current Pentium-4 system you can reuse (PCI-Express)?
In my household we have 3 PC's...
Hi Cepak,
There are several PCI to SATA cards available and most will work fine with FreeNas, and they need not be expensive.
You might run into other problems though.
That motherboard you have supports only 1GB of RAM. That makes it less desireable to use FreeNas-8 with ZFS. Without...
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