always been curious....how does an 80pin cable help anything if the
connectors on both ends are still 40 pin?

eric

On 11/29/06, Nathan England <nathan@paysonlinux.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > I have no idea what kind of system you're running, but in my
> > experience the best way to enhance response time is to drop in a
> > faster (rotationally) disk.  The 5-10ms you save accessing a new file
> > makes a noticeable difference.
>
> I would agree. The bottle kneck of todays pc is no longer ram or
> processor,
> but hard drives. Even fast hard drives are really slow. Find a hard drive
> with a large buffer and a higher rotational speed, like 7200 min. And if
> your
> system supports it, make sure you are using an 80 pin cable, not the old
> 40
> pin cables. I'm still seeing brand new systems coming with the old 40 pins
> on
> hdd.
>
> Depending on the age of your system, if you can over clock it, it has
> always
> been faster to actually under clock the processor a bit, but speed up the
> bus.
>
> Example:
>
> A Pentium 3 1.0 ghz running on a 100mhz system bus will not be as fast as
> the
> same processor clocked at 933 but running at 133 mhz bus, or even 112 bus.
> But be careful, your video card is usually the first to choke on an over
> clocked bus, so if you experience problems, start your troubleshooting
> there.
>
> nathan
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