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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 |
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Many thanks for this info.
D "Gnasher" wrote in message ... On this day of our lord, Sat, 23 Aug 2003 18:09:18 GMT, "Dudley Henriques" quilled: 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 Ever considered building your own instead? Takes a bit more work but you get exactly what you want. But if buying a pre-built the best advice I can give is buy the fastest and most (HD, ram etc.) you can afford. Intel P4's with 800mhz FSB are the best performers right now but cost more than AMD too. I would say an AMD Barton 2500+ cpu with an Nforce2 motherboard, Sapphire Radeon 9800 OEM vid card, ATA100 7200rpm120+gb HD and at least 512mb of PC3200 (400mhz) ram will provide the most bang for the buck. That's what I would buy if building a fast system and on a budget. But I do use an Intel P4 system right now. |
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Don't forget serial ATA if you want a bit more punch.
"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message ink.net... Many thanks for this info. |
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Hi Kevin,
Serial ATA 2 will be out soon, and, as the current ATA is said by some to be not quite up to scratch, I'd not worry about it yet. Regards, John "Kevin©" wrote in message ... Don't forget serial ATA if you want a bit more punch. "Dudley Henriques" wrote in message ink.net... Many thanks for this info. |
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At the prices of the SATA drives, it'll probably need to be SATA3 before I
bite. "John Ward" wrote in message u... Hi Kevin, Serial ATA 2 will be out soon, and, as the current ATA is said by some to be not quite up to scratch, I'd not worry about it yet. Regards, John "Kevin©" wrote in message ... Don't forget serial ATA if you want a bit more punch. "Dudley Henriques" wrote in message ink.net... Many thanks for this info. |
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"Dudley Henriques" wrote in
ink.net: 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. |
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I agree, and by then they'll probably be 20,000 RPM or so on anyway...
Regards, John "Kevin©" wrote in message ... At the prices of the SATA drives, it'll probably need to be SATA3 before I bite. "John Ward" wrote in message u... Hi Kevin, Serial ATA 2 will be out soon, and, as the current ATA is said by some to be not quite up to scratch, I'd not worry about it yet. Regards, John "Kevin©" wrote in message ... Don't forget serial ATA if you want a bit more punch. "Dudley Henriques" wrote in message ink.net... Many thanks for this info. |
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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 |
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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. -- Jan-Albert "Anvil" van Ree | http://www.vanree.net/~javanree/ VanReeDotNet IT Solutions | http://www.vanree.net |
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Gnasher wrote:
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 08:36:42 +1000, "John Ward" wrote: Hi Kevin, Serial ATA 2 will be out soon, and, as the current ATA is said by some to be not quite up to scratch, I'd not worry about it yet. Not to mention it is way to expesnsive for the amount of HD space you get for the buck. I would buy SCSI before I would buy SATA. SCSI comes with it's own issues : - Extra PCI card needed - Usually higher power useage - Higher drive temperatures - Cost Apart from the somewhat small capacity, what's wrong with the new Western Digital Raptor series? They blow away EVERY other IDE drive, and almost all 7200 rpm SCSI drives. And they make less mess in your case, since Serial ATA cables are very compact, SPECIALLY compared to SCSI. -- Jan-Albert "Anvil" van Ree | http://www.vanree.net/~javanree/ VanReeDotNet IT Solutions | http://www.vanree.net |
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