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can someone help me ? Im usin A Sata Seagate 400 gig harddrive and i just got it and the ide adapter today its all hooked up but it wont detect.

 

You don't need to post that twice, firstly, how are you connecting the S-ATA drive to the IDE interface? What are you using to do it?

 

the adapter goes straight into the motherboaRD and the sata cables connect to the adapter to the harddrive.the adapter is a sabr1000dh/dv serial to ide adapter kit.

 

Right, no matches (of any use) for that on google so I'm a bit in the dark. Which IDE channel is the adaptor in? (I wouldn't use an IDE-to-S-ATA adapter and expect it to work, personally due to the nature of adaptors, but if it's all you've got to work with...

 

sata and ide are different technologies 2...
i would just get an add on pci adaptor that gives you acess to external sata drives..

 

naaa i would go with the w.d. hard drive that has the 16mg cache and is 10,000rpms.. that would be a much better improvement..and it is AM2? o had no idea.. cool.. but i still think the cpu is overboard.. why not get the single core 3800 2.4 for 135.00 and and save the rest for the second generation of the AM2 socket?

Just my opinion.. and sorry about the rich kid thing..
thats a lot of money.. thats all..
but money is scarce when you are 14....
lol

Have Fun,
FIHSNERD

 

hey guys.. n00b question real quick..
what does grey to grey mean?? on monitors that is..

 

the adapter is plugged in to the old harddrive spot were hd's are supposed to go.{ithink}

 

If I were you mate I'd buy a PCI controller card for Serial ATA. That'd be much more reliable. Grey to Grey for monitors is how long the monitor takes to refresh the screen when the information on it (the colour of the pixel) hasn't changed. Green-Green and Yellow-Yellow and slightly pink-slightly pink should all be close to this time. It's an easy way to consistently measure the response time. Black to white is the most extreme case, and that will take longer, e.g. up to 20ms on a "12ms" monitor, because times are given as grey-grey by standard.
Money's also scarce at 18 mate, so I'm justing going with one hit and leaving it. Got to work over the summer to pay for it!

 

alright all try that.

 

Ok I'm looking to build a PC my Dad would help me, but he's getting old so he dosn't no the good products.

So I game on PC alot... I'm wondering if I can get something that will play most the games if not all the PC games out. And will play msot games for about 3 years. Then I will be going to college and get another PC. So I would like to keep this under 1000 if at all posible. I'm not looking for show to much.

 

You won't have a CP that can run games well for 3 years for $1000, £1000 maybe, but not dollars.
If you can get a dual core CPU and 2GB RAM, that's important.

 

emachine , if you wait till the end of July the AMD 3800 x2 can be had for 169.00 dollars so that a good place to start

 

It sure can, but is that AM2 only or both sockets? Clearly if it was AM2 only then it'd make AM2 a better buy. However it'd make 939 totally redundant, which wouldn't be a good thing at all.

 

sammorris what did that video card run you price wise

 

An absolute fortune. Aria are pro-nvidia so ATI stuff always carries a bit of a premium, but in the UK prices are a lot higher anyway. The Sapphire X1900XT was £327 (since you get two full games and some software, I consider it's effective total cost around the £260 mark). At the current rate that works out at a pretty steep $601 (the former figure)

 

thats about what i payed for my video card but mines a 256mb compared to yours at a 512mb card . at this point theres not alot of games that you need the 512mb but you will be looking good for several years out with that card

 

That's my point. It's lovely to play games at 1920x1200x6x16 at max detail now, but the idea was I can still play games at at least 1280x1024 a little way down the line. I'll obviousl upgrade again before I'm limited to it being too slow, but with PS3.0, the ring bus architecture and the 48 pixel shaders, this sounds to me like a "gets faster with time" GPU, like my processor really!

 

Yeah, I'm not in a rush for time. So I can wait. So I have another ?. Why do intel seem to have higher ghz then amd, but amd is better? It confuses me...

 

the AMD 3800 would equal out to a Intel 3.8GHz its all about the clockspeed of the chip. iam sure sammorris can give more detailed info