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Hey,

As the Summer comes to an end so does my crappy computer... So now I am slowly upgrading it rather than rebuilding a new computer... Even thought that might save me money in the long run...

beause recently I upgrade my Video Card from a ATI 8500LE ---> Nvidia XFX 6600 GT

Replaced 2 of my Fans... Sucks that my Case isn't really designed for good Cooling/Air Flow since after thinking about it.. Lol I have to leave my Case Open whenever I use it or else it heats up pretty fast...

Now I was thinking of buying a New Hard Drive... Since I don't really want to go through the Hassle of Reformatting my Current HD's knowing that there are some things on it that I can't Back-Up due to Size... And I want to test out Vista just to see the Stability...

What is a good Hard Drive? I mean I don't need the Top of Line / Largest GB HD... Since I think 120 is WOAH for me already... Right now I currently use a Western Digital 40GB, and I think I want to keep that as a back-Up rather then Formatting it to test the other OS's and find out they aren't worth it and having to ReFormat it again... (So whatever recommendations you have I would love to hear and it would be nice for like a Price with it... Can't really search it myself since I not much of a Hardware persont o know what is good/ bad)

---TroubleShooting/ Questions---

If I did buy a new Harddrive... And decide to install... Vista, what exactly is the Difference? I mean would I still be able to use all the software I was before and play CS:Source? (Edited 64Bit didn't know my PRoc had to be 64bit =X)

---Thanks for any advice that will be given in advance---

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About your heat "problems", what tempretures does everything reach with the case closed? (and running for a good few hours). How are your fans set up?

Western Digital, Samsung and Seagate all make reliable hard drives. Maxtor and IBM/Hitachi are sometimes regarded as unreliable. Just make sure the drive you get is 7200+ RPM and has 8mb+ cache. Does your motherboard support SATA? If so SATA is the way to go...

Vista is a new operating system. Its well away from a final release. Dont bother with it.

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With the Case Closed... it can reach about Low-High 120's... Farenheit of course... Opposed to when it is Open just mid 110's...

My Fans I have 3 Case fans... 1 In Exhaust(Back), 2 in Intake(Front) btu then like my case isn't really designed for the Intake in my Opinion since I dont' see how Air can go in... Witht he front being all sealed and stuff... (If you asked what Case I have... I can't let you know since I don't even know)

As for the Hard Drive how to check if my Mobo suppots SATA? I doubt it does since it is pretty old... It is a EpoX 8RDA+ (Not PRO)

Well I shall ask my Friend to accompany me to buy one... ANd now knowing that Vista is still 'Beta-ish/leaked' my friend has a copy but I don't have a DVD Drive to read his DVD-R.. so I now have a New question.. What is a good DVD Burner? Haha and like Price Range... I dont' necessarily need a Top of the Line one.. Just a decent one...

Thanks Lite for the Help

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What are we on about with the temps? The CPU?

I had a quick look at your motherboard, it doesnt support SATA. Just buy a normal IDE hard drive. There's no real difference in speed between ATA-100 and ATA133, so dont be put off by an ATA-100 drive. Just make sure it has the 8mb cache and spins at 7200RPM (or better). Personally, im gonna buy a 160GB seagate drive in the next week or so (because its cheaper than the western digitals/ samsungs), only a couple of £'s difference though.

If you want quality with your DVD Writer, get Plextor (because they are prolly the best). Otherwise, NEC, LiteON and samsung drives are good.

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CPU is 120's, Case: 90's

Yeah Still sorta bleh on the HD since that is harder to pick with sooo many... DVD Drive is a tad easier...

But yeah... I not sure what diff of the ATA- 100 and ATA133...

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Both temps are nothing to be worried about....

Alledelgy the ATA133 drives transfer data at upto 133mb/s(ATA-100 @ 100mb/s), realistically you'll be lucky to get even 100, let alone the 133....

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Alrights...

Bah... For the HD... After checking Price Ranges.. Ouch they are quite pricey in my Opinion... I mean my friend thought he had one with at $70 Rebate for a 160GB SeaGate but it expired =/

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With the Case Closed... it can reach about Low-High 120's... Farenheit of course... Opposed to when it is Open just mid 110's...

My Fans I have 3 Case fans... 1 In Exhaust(Back), 2 in Intake(Front) btu then like my case isn't really designed for the Intake in my Opinion since I dont' see how Air can go in... Witht he front being all sealed and stuff... (If you asked what Case I have... I can't let you know since I don't even know)

As for the Hard Drive how to check if my Mobo suppots SATA? I doubt it does since it is pretty old... It is a EpoX 8RDA+ (Not PRO)

Well I shall ask my Friend to accompany me to buy one... ANd now knowing that Vista is still 'Beta-ish/leaked' my friend has a copy but I don't have a DVD Drive to read his DVD-R.. so I now have a New question.. What is a good DVD Burner? Haha and like Price Range... I dont' necessarily need a Top of the Line one.. Just a decent one...

    Thanks Lite for the Help

If you just want to read ur friend's DVD, u can just get a DVD Rom drive.. It doesnt have ta be a writer and thus will be cheaper...

As for the harddrive.. You could always just create a virtual PC to test out Vista..

Buying a second harddrive for a beta OS just isnt worth it.... neither is formating ur currrent harddrive..

As for backup files.... surely u dont have files over 700MBs? Cause then u can just burn them to a CD (assuming u got a cd burner..) That or span them across multiple floppies :P :P

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