Can my configuration be improved?

[Dokeman]

Yeah, it will help alot. Also put the slave drive on there also. The will speed up Harddrive performance which in turns speeds up the whole computer

[crazyray]

My system:

P III 800EB
256 mb RAM
ASUS CUSL2-C
WD 40 GB 7200/100 HD
WD 30 GB 7200/100 HD (slave)
SB Live Value!
ATI Radeon
HP 9100i
Lite-On 16x DVD
Linksys nic
Firewire PCI adapter card

I've got the two hard drives on my primary IDE channel, and the DVD and the CDRW on the secondary IDE. This works fine...BUT...I've been told I can use a SIIG Ultra ATA/66 PCI controller card to hook up the DVD on its own cable and "greatly" improve CD copying on the fly. I've got the card laying around and open PCI slots...What do you think?



[This message has been edited by crazyray (edited 08-29-2001).]

[crazyray]

^^

[Cody]

Heh... I have a similar configuration, but simpler:

PIII Coppermine 800EB
512MB PC133
30GB Maxtor HD
16X DVD-ROM
PlexWriter 8/4/32A
SoundBlaster Live! Value
nVIDIA GeForce 256 w/ 32MB (Around 200FPS in T2)

[cadetstimpy]

I would add a ATA100 RAID contoller and strip the Hard Drives as RAID 0. (almost cuts the average access seek time in half)