Need Feedback on Hypersonic

I'm seriously considering a new gaming machine. Anyone out there have
anything they can tell me about Hypersonic computers? Good or bad, it will
really help me in making a final decision. Keep in mind I'm interested in
flight simulators as my only "game" please. If you have any recommendations
within the system itself, please feel free to tell me what they are. I have
to choose between Anthlon and Pentium for example, and Nvidia and ATI.
All comments will be appreciated believe me.
Thanks.
Dudley

"Dudley Henriques" wrote in
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I'm seriously considering a new gaming machine. Anyone out there have
anything they can tell me about Hypersonic computers? Good or bad, it
will really help me in making a final decision. Keep in mind I'm
interested in flight simulators as my only "game" please. If you have
any recommendations within the system itself, please feel free to tell
me what they are. I have to choose between Anthlon and Pentium for
example, and Nvidia and ATI. All comments will be appreciated believe
me. Thanks.
Dudley



I second the motion to build your own, been doing that for years. SATA
may or may not deliver punch, but ATA-RAID absolutely will.

Flyfish

My system:

Kingwin case, vantac 400W dual fan PS.
ABIT BE-7 Raid
P4 2.4Ghz 533Mhz FSB
4 WD 40G 8M disks striped/mirrored
1 G DDR 333 memory
Ti4600
SBlive soon to be an audigy 2
and the usual CDRW etc.

Interesting thread on drives here. I use ATA 100 drives and find that the
difference in performance is negligible for flight sim work. I would,
however, highly recommend getting 7200 RPM drives with 8 meg caches in the
80-120 range. The larger the drive, the more platters and the quicker the
access. Drives inevitably fail and these are less expensive to replace than
some of the higher priced SATA versions when they do. Seldom do I have need
for loading a LOT of data very quickly. The feeds for scenery updates while
flying in FS9 are relatively small and the differences in access times is
unnoticable, IMHO, especially with a 7200 RPM multi-platter drive.

Most motherboards now have SATA (Asus, MSI, Gigabyte, etc.) if you're going
to the Intel 800 FSB DDR setups so it's a matter of what you want to hook
up.

--
Mike Davis

Flyfish wrote:

I second the motion to build your own, been doing that for years. SATA
may or may not deliver punch, but ATA-RAID absolutely will.

But at a price and with added risk (RAID-0 means your chances of failure
increase a lot... not just double but more so. Sorry, too lazy to do the
statistics)
atm the fastest IDE drive is the SATA Western Digital Raptor. Blows away
anything IDE and at a very nice price too.

Besides, fast HD's aren't that important... LOADS of RAM and a nice (dual-
or at least HT) CPU with a high FSB do more miracles, specially for sims.
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