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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
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> 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
>