I think the 33mhz bus is the root cause of a lot of problems. Video has improved not because of faster cpu's but because so much of what used to travel on the buss is now done on the card. My hdd may be able to read faster than ever before but it sure doesn't help when even at 66mhz it exceeded buss speed. Your box performs at the slowest speed on the chain and if that's 33mhz .... that's the choke point.. course all this is IMHO but I think I'm in the ballpark.
James On Sun, 19 May 2002 17:41:55 -0500 Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 19 May 2002 11:48 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > > I'm still a little leery about maxtor reliability. What's your > > take on that? > > > > LX > > Can't say, I've only had it a few weeks. First one too, Maxtor's > have never been an overclockers favorite. IBM and Quantum always > held the crown for 'takes a lickin and keeps on tickin', specially on > an off spec PCI bus. Tho I've got a 1.4 Tbird at 1.55, it's all done > by upping the multiplier, the FSB is up just a touch (135mz) so the > PCI is in spec (135/4). PwrSupply is a Sparkle 300w, provides clean > steady 12v & 5 V, Vcore and IO too. We'll see ;> > > I think all new drives are a risk, what with the platter density, > the high rpms, and these gimmicks (ata/100, 133) to get a touch more > out'a 'em, on the old 33mhz pci bus. Bench's look great, real world > doesn't reflect it that much. Reliability is sufferin at the expense > of marketing and price points, all brands of drives. 'Course then > again, backing up to CDr's is fairly cheap ;> > -- > Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas > >
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