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Currently the 8300 has the 530 FSB. I am waiting for the 800 FSB.

Count Blah <nochance4spammers@server.com> wrote in article
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> I'm with you Marcos. I've placed my order on the discounted 8250 with
2.8Ghz
> on few days ago and cancelled it. Although it had a very good price I
found
> the following reasons to lean towards 8300:
> 
> - RDRAM is twice more expensive and has to be installed in pairs (so I
will
> have only ONE expensive upgrade in the future);
> - RDRAM will probably be abandoned in the future because newest Intel
> chipsets support DC DDR SDRAM;
> - Video slot is 8X AGP on 8300 vs. 4X on 8250. Which means that best
video
> cards will not be used to their full potential on 8250 in the future.
> - 3.06 GHz with HT;
> 
> I'm still not sure if the 8300 has 530Mhz or 800 Mhz front side bus
speed.
> Any info on that?
> 
> 
> 
> "Marcos M. Zattar" <zattar@t-online.de> wrote in message
> news:b7hv2l$bga$00$1@news.t-online.com...
> > Hello!
> >
> > I am planning to buy a desktop from DELL and until yesterday I didn't
> > have any doubt, I was up to the Dimension 8250. But then Dell launched
> > a new model here in Germany, the 8300. It claims to be faster because
> > it has the chipset 875P and 533/800 Mhz PSB. Besides, the RDRAM was
> > replaced by the DDR. To make the choice more complicated, the 8300 is
> > offered here in Germany with a regular hard-disk or optionally with a
> > RAID couple instead (stripe or mirror, you choose). So here my
> > questions:
> >
> > - How much is the increase in performance with the new chipset and RAM
> > type? Is it worth spending those extra bucks for the newer version?
> > - What are the advantages of a Serial-ATA harddisk compared to a
> > regular EIDE harddisk?
> > - It is said that RAID 1 (mirror) is safer regarding a possible disk
> > failure and RAID 0 (stripe) is faster. How safer is RAID 1 and how
> > faster is RAID 0? Is there really a considerable chance that in a RAID
> > 0 system one of the disks fails, breaks or has a malfunction? In this
> > case, is it true that you lose all your data?
> >
> > I would appreciate any comments that would help me decide which one to
> > get.
> >
> > Bye!
> > Marcos
> >
> 
> 
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