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Article #102Re: 8250 vs. 8300 and RAID
From: Tom Scales
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 03:30
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 03:30
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What is there, the XPS with 800FSB or the 8300. I think we all knew about the XPS. The question is whether the 8300 is available with the 800FSB. Tom "Count Blah" <nochance4spammers@server.com> wrote in message news:ifmra.662950$L1.188935@sccrnsc02... > It is there. Check out new series of XPS: > 3.0 Ghz P4, 800Mhz FSB, 4 fans, 450Watts power... > > > "Robert Johnson" <robertjohnson999@yahoo.com> wrote in message > news:01c30da7$333de620$32f1fecd@micron... > > Currently the 8300 has the 530 FSB. I am waiting for the 800 FSB. > > > > Count Blah <nochance4spammers@server.com> wrote in article > > <WDcra.675627$S_4.726350@rwcrnsc53>... > > > 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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