New 'puter

[SonnyJim]

Wow, lots of changes since I visited last. New team name, new team mates new board. Sheesh, need to get out more!

Building up a new 'puter. I got a T-bird 1.33GHz AYHJA stepping, Asus A7V133 mobo, Swiftech MC462 HSF. I'm hopeful I can get this thing up to 1.7GHz. I'll let you know what I get it up to in a week or so after I burn it in with some Genome crunching.

I'd like your opinions on disk usage. I currently have two hard drives, an 18Gig 10K RPM Ultra2 LVD and a 18Gig 7.2K RPM Ultra2 LVD. I'm using the slower one as my "library", which has all my MP3s and such. I'm going to add a 3rd drive, a 9Gig 7.2K RPM Ultra2 LVD. I'm going to use a boot manager to install 3 O/Ses, Windows 2K, Windows 98SE and Windows XP. I'd like to install the O/Ses on one drive and my applications on another drive. My question is, where will I realize the better performance, O/S on the 10K drive and apps on the 7.2K or vice versa? I'll be putting the swap files on the application drive but it'll be very small as I'll be sporting half a gig of RAM. Any thoughts on this or other system performance tips is greatly appreciated.

SonnyJim

[wbierman]

If it were I....

I'd put the 3 OSs on the slowest drive and the "swap" files in a dedicated partition on the fastest drive.

[pelligrini]

If you do use a dedicated partition, use the first one. The outside edges of the disk are faster.

I saw a pretty good article some time ago that covered your questions in depth, but I can't seem to find it again.

Glad to see you back, I was wondering where you were.

[siggy]

Originally posted by SonnyJim
Wow, lots of changes since I visited last. New team name, new team mates new board. Sheesh, need to get out more!

Building up a new 'puter. I got a T-bird 1.33GHz AYHJA stepping, Asus A7V133 mobo, Swiftech MC462 HSF. I'm hopeful I can get this thing up to 1.7GHz. I'll let you know what I get it up to in a week or so after I burn it in with some Genome crunching.



I get it - mobo is motherboard. Its scary but I am starting to understand the language.

[zhotfire]

Originally posted by siggy


I get it - mobo is motherboard. Its scary but I am starting to understand the language.
It's even scarier when you start to speak it... your friends will never look at you the same way again.... ;)

[dnar]

Wooooo.



If your using swap, you need more RAM :D

Use the fastest partition on the fastest drives for the Bigest software or data you the most.....

I know that is general but heh!

Generally, I would not optimise for swap, you should not be using swap, If you do buy more RAM.

For Windows, the apps are big the data even bigger. Data on fastest drives.

[SonnyJim]

The only time I'll be using swap is when I'm playing Anarchy Online. :( Unfortunately, they're using crappy or lazy memory management and it chews up all my RAM and half my swap in a couple of hours.

*edit: changed AO to Anarchy Online for the non-gamers :)

[dnar]

Originally posted by SonnyJim

The only time I'll be using swap is when I'm playing AO. :( Unfortunately, they're using crappy or lazy memory management and it chews up all my RAM and half my swap in a couple of hours.



:confused: AO??? Sorry m8y, I'm a non-gaming Linux man...... Anyway whatever AO is, it sucks!

[fizler]

>>Building up a new 'puter. I got a T-bird 1.33GHz AYHJA stepping, Asus A7V133 mobo, Swiftech MC462 HSF. I'm hopeful I can get this thing up to 1.7GHz. I'll let you know what I get it up to in a week or so after I burn it in with some Genome crunching. <<

very nice setup, hope everything goes well and you get that beast online and crunching!

[fizler]

i would actully go with the 1.2 ayhja "y", i've seen alot of reviews that it has the overall best overclock for your money, unless you snag a 650 duron and bump it to 1ghz. thats a cheap way of crunching some genes!