Help Needed.

started by Vaidyanathan Pushpagiri 9 mnths ago

Facing a Technical Problem:

1.   My computer Motherboard, is about four years old, and I want to upgrade my HDD, with a Hitachi SATA 160 GB 7200 rpm (about Rs.2,300).  But there is no SATA provision in my MOBO (Intel 845 GBV).  Some vendors say I can get a IDE Card, and overcome this disability of my MOBO.  Others say, the computer will not recognise the new SATA HDD. Presently, I have 2 x 40 GB 7200 HDD PATA.

2.  The MOBO has only two DIMMS slot for two sticks of RAM.  Presently, my configuration is 2 x 256 Hynix 184 Pin DDR1 200/266 SD RAM Dual Line Memory Module  and the Processor is an Intel processor Pentium 4  2 GHz with an FSB of  400MHz, 512 KB - L2 Cache.

This desktop MOBO is designed to take upto 2 GB of RAM but according to the manual, this has not been validated.

So, while upgrading, should I upgrade with two sticks of 512 DDR1 RAM or get done with 1GB x 2 184 pin sticks? (all other specs remaining same)[Considering that DDR1 is fast becoming obsolete and DDR 2 is the present market leader]

Corsair is presently offering DDR 1 184 pin in both 512 & 1 GB varities in their Value Select Memory Series, but costs a bomb.

I have upgraded my mouse to Microsoft Laser Mouse 6000 (wireless), and the KeyBoard to Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 (wired), both performing flawlessly.

Can anybody give me suggestions ? TIA.

Regards.
Rajaputhran

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  BladeRunner posted Re:Help Needed. on 4 mnths ago
For once I know something about what I'm posting here -
Memory - your motherboard can only run DDR1. Do not buy DDR2. It is a bit risky to try 2GB. 1GB is good enough for most people. Buy two of those Corsair 512MB memory modules

the motherboard has only ATA - you cannot do anything about it unless you buy an adapter card. Not worth it. 


  Jatayu posted Re:Help Needed. on 9 mnths ago
Good question VPji. The answer is it depends. If you are running memory intensive work like Lots of video, Graphics apps and have multiple spreadheets open and editing documents at the same time. You may want to go with 1GB X 2 else 512 X 2 will do just fine, if you are browsing the net etc.,
  Jatayu posted Re:Help Needed. on 9 mnths ago
BTW. This is my dream motherboard.

M2N32-SLI Deluxe nForce 590 SLI AM2 ATX Motherboard

It can take up to 8GB max memory. This goes well with AMD sempron processors, so costs much less.
  Vaidyanathan Pushpagiri posted Re:Help Needed. on 9 mnths ago
Jatayu:
Thank you for your suggestion, on the RAM.  It is timely, a friend of my son, has agreed to procure  Corsair  of the following specs. from the US.  

Corsair VS -512 MB 266
DDR SD RAM 512 MB Memory 
Form Factor DIMM 184 Pin Latency 2-5-3-3-3.
Clock speed 133 MHz. Data Rate 266 Mhz. 

Basiclly I am an unashamed admirer of Intel Products, &  Microsoft Hardware.  So, for a long time I have NOT considered AMD processors and MOBO meant for AMD. 

My dream MOBO is the frightfully expensive ASUS PSK3 Deluxe Wi-Fi -AP (Rs.17,000/-) 8 GB 4 slots(Max. memory.) but with NO integrated graphics.  Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E 6750.  (Rs. 8250)

The Foxconn 975X7AB-8EKRS2H at around Rs.11, 000, offers good value for money with a suitable Intel processor from the  Intel Core 2 Duo range. 

Regards.
Rajaputhran.
  Job less fella posted Re:Help Needed. on 4 mnths ago
VP

if you buy a speical kind of CPU case the you can get better results even with so called inferior ,lowly clocked machines.THis case  is nothing but a small refrigirator..at low tempratures the Chips works wonders.I would suggest doing some R&D on that...

  posted Re:Help Needed. on 4 mnths ago
Hi,

If you have aPCI slot you can but a PCI card that supports 1 or two sata connectors.There are PCI Cards with 2-SATA2 and 1-IDe connectors even some of them have eSATA.I ahve seen lot of them in ebay.com.But not sure its available here.You can try contacting a near by IT shop.

Thanks & Regards,

-Geeth





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