Ralf Hutter wrote:

Mats wrote:Cthulhu, välkommen till SPCR!

uhh, yeah....what he ^ said!

You're really good at Swedish! Maybe your German background helped you!

After a long and carefull searching around I placed an order two days ago for a 7200.7 200GB SATA HDD (supposedly not yet with NCQ but who can utilize it now? Not me...) Are you sure? When the 200 GB model was announced they said it had NCQ, I THINK . Not sure at all. Anyway, I think the platter si...

Cthulhu, välkommen till SPCR ! I didn't know that there was a difference between the two versions. I'm really looking forward to see what the new 7200.8 is like. Something tells me that Seagate must have realized that the 7200.7 is to loud for being a modern Barracuda, and yes, 20 bels for the sin...

Confusion... What I always thought: Neither the SATA nor the PATA version of the 7200.7 have AAM enabled, and the end user can't change it like you can on many other HDs. The reason why Seagate won't use it is because they're not allowed, it's something about a patent. Can't remember, but I've seen ...

JimK:But he didn't say:

Mats wrote:I've never heard that any 7200.7 would have AAM enabled....

Which on of us are right? Getting confused...

I've never heard that any 7200.7 would have AAM enabled. People are saying that it is disabled and you can't change it. Check the forum.

Bro, this is just the 35w being taken to a new stepping and 90nm. The reviewer obviously didn't realize that there were 35w chips released before using 130nm tech. If you read the text at xbitlabs you see that the 62 > 35 W statement came from a principal analyst at insight 64, not the reviewer. I ...

I got my answer! "When will you start selling the new Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 models (250-400 GB) ?" hi, these should be available in the next few weeks thanks ...SWEET! :D MIKE C: Haven't you heard anything about the new HDs in Canada/USA lately? Please tell me that you secretly have a 400 GB at h...

Found at Xbitlabs about the new Athlon 64 with D0 stepping : The new (90nm) AMD part is about half the size (84mm2 versus 145mm2) of its 130nm part, which bodes well for manufacturing capacity and yield characteristics. Even more importantly for mobile applications, the new chip consumes about half ...

Mats, your getting way ahead of yourself on some shaky assumptions.. "getting way ahead of yourself" - what do you mean? I made one assumption and that one was wrong, completely wrong. Since I explained my assumption you knew from the start that I was talking about something else. It happens all th...

More about NCQ here

SEAGATE SHOWS SATA WITH NCQ CAN BEAT 10K SATA

So, a 7200NCQ can beat a 74 GB WD Raptor according to Seagate.... ..interesting.

Native Command Queuing, it's for increasing the performance for HDs. I think it's the next big thing but I cannot describe it very well. It's about making the HD read/write the data in a more optimal and efficient order (=faster) . The drawback? I haven't heard about any motherboard that supports it...

Well they might be just around the corner. www.span.com , a UK store specialised in data storage with a big selection of HDs have ALL the new Seagates (nine different 7200.8, 250/300/400 GB), you just can't buy them yet. Ok, maybe they're just doing this just for the attention, but I doubt it. They ...

The drives have been released, but to the OEM manufacturers. We do not have an exact date for release to the open market but the date they were announced preceeds their actual availability by approximately 120 days. The drives are pre-sold to manufacturers for at least that much time. So my questio...

Just put the HD on a towel or something like that on the floor for a minute, just to hear the difference. Then you realize what you have to do.

The case is amplifying the vibrations a lot.

.....and WELCOME TO SPCR!

In general, Seagate Barracuda HDs are good quality and in many cases low noise. Barracuda IV is making very low noises, Barracuda V a bit more. Don't know anything about Barracuda I-III, they're too old. The 7200.7 is known for being the noisest desktop HD made by Seagate for years, espacally the 16...

First, there's a difference between a Mobile Celeron and a Celeron M. Since you've mentioned 1,3 GHz I assume it's the Celeron M you mean. The new Celeron M is a cheaper variant of Pentium M (used in Centrino notebooks). The differences between them is smaller cache, 512 kB for Celeron compared to 1...

I've not enabled Cool n' Quiet, just experimented with it. I'll experiment more when I get my new case. Why? Try CnQ now before you buy anything. Maybe your experience will make you realize that you need sonething else. CnQ should lower he temp a lot in idle. Can't you just make some modding with y...

The CPU idles on 50-52 degrees (and the fan speed is almost always max - 2400rpm). ??? Have you enabled Cool n´ Quiet? I'm using an AXP 2500+ with no case fans except for my 350 W Fortron, which never goes over 45 degrees in idle even at 2400 MHz. Using a Zalman 7000 AlCu at min speed. I really do...

I don't think the CPNS7000 fits 423...does it? I never said so, i just suggested that he would "borrow" the fanmate for the old computer and later on use it together with the Zalman heatsink for the next computer. As far as I read on Zalman's site, 370 is a go,... Where have you read that? I can't ...

I'm using a Zalman ZM80C on my 9800 Pro with no fan, the psu fan is making the only caseflow = BAD caseflow! Been playing Far Cry for hours with max settings at FSB 222 MHz, AGP unlocked. No problems!! And yeah, I use stock crappy Zalman thermal paste. When I installed the heatsink I realised that y...

I really don't think that you'll find a good compromise. You should be focusing in optimizing your next computer and get the best parts. I'm a college student too so I see your economical point of view. My suggestions: 1. A bit odd but... Buy a Zalman CNPS7000 (maybe >$25 in US?) and use just the fa...

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Yes, the going through the services is the most important thing to do.

Trying to run XP on a box with 128MB of memory is an exercise in futility, at best. Seriously, have you tried? My experiences are better than that, but it all depends what you want to do. I'm talking about running Office/browsing/etc while playing music for instance. It's a matter about choosing th...

cool, i would like to wait for amd to move to the 90nm SOI process for the athlon xp-m. Just don't wait too long! :D Remember, Athlon XP under 3000+ has stopped in production , the others will follow. This means that if you want a socket A CPU better than Sempron, then you have to go for XP-M >> pr...

The prefetch function only optimizes the placement of boot files once every three days[/b Sorry, I missed that "three days" when I read the text I was referring to... ..too many late nights. Still, I wonder what XP is doing as soon as I don't use the computer, does anybody know? You should also rea...

Or, maybe compensate the lack of heatspreader by placing a piece of sheet metal with the same thickness between the mounting clip and the heatsink, under the fan. Haven't tried though.

can you use mobile processors in desktop standard boards? Yes, you can. Look for other threads here in this forum. There's a huge one called something like "AMD Athlon XP-M, owners and wannabe owners" It's the best Socket A CPU you can get! Make sure you get a motherboard model that's working prope...

Oh and by the way, du you see something wrong here? AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton 11x333=1833 MHz, 512 kbyte L2 cache AMD Sempron 2600+ Thoroughbred B 11x333=1833, MHz 256 kbyte L2 cache How can I get better performance with half the L2 cache? I must have missed something here, AMD can't be that stupid...