PinkVendeta wrote:muttdoggy wrote:Many people I know will do a RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) of multiple Hard Drives to increase the read and write speeds. It does work and some RAID configurations can tolerate drive failures. But when it comes to the high rpm hard drives, they can be quicker than many RAID systems with accessing the data but it's suggested that you do what you can to keep the drive cool. But all hard drives do is load the program into the RAM (Random Access Memory) and you're running off the RAM. So if you need gaming speed, get the highest amount AND speed of RAM that your motherboard can support. But if you do movies, audio and video processing, then it's worth getting higher speed hard drives.
Nice to see You know your stuff, as do I with regard to computer hardware, had a gaming computer a few years back built by Dell, the tower was huge, big size power supply, 4 fans running constantly, 2 hard drives setup in a RAID array, both ran above 10,000 RPM, em a few gigs of Ram, what ever the Mother board could take in max amounts of Ram it had, best intel processors, best NVidia GeForce card that was out at the time, that PC was fast always but cool, it was not cheap
that's for sure, Dads credit card took a major hit that month.
That's why I call my system "a good start". For now. All I need is more ram (random access memory), a better processor and graphics card.
What I did first was get an old Windows XP case from a local custom computer builder so it's quite big, all steel, and sturdy.
Second, I got a 650 watt PSU (power supply unit)with gold connectors and a larger fan. I don't need more than that. It usually goes on the bottom of the case but it's on the top blowing down directly on the processor's heatsink.
I got another fan since the chassis fan was still okay so I have 4 fans counting the PSU.. I have another fan already and will replace the case fan since its old and then add another to the front of the case by the hard drive array.
Third, I got a very good AMD motherboard that can take any current cpu and installed that.
Then I added a Western Digital Blue 7400 rpm 1 gig hard drive and an LG super multi drive to read and play music, cds, DVDS, etc.
After all that I only had the budget left to put in 4 gigs ram, a 3.1 dual core Athlon 2, and a gt 630.
But at least that's the easy part. Adding ram or a graphic card is a breeze and so is changing out the CPU(Central Processing Unit OR processor).. my only worry is whether my windows 10 will "brick" on me after adding the CPU.