Comments on: A New Computer – What Should I Get? http://www.kwaree.com/blog/2008/05/15/a-new-computer-what-should-i-get/ Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:18:22 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: jayadmin http://www.kwaree.com/blog/2008/05/15/a-new-computer-what-should-i-get/#comment-89719 jayadmin Fri, 16 May 2008 16:21:06 +0000 http://www.kwaree.com/blog/?p=2063#comment-89719 Good info. I am definitely going to call you about this. It will be probably next month. Good info. I am definitely going to call you about this. It will be probably next month.

]]> By: Hannigan http://www.kwaree.com/blog/2008/05/15/a-new-computer-what-should-i-get/#comment-89714 Hannigan Fri, 16 May 2008 15:11:50 +0000 http://www.kwaree.com/blog/?p=2063#comment-89714 Jay, call me before you order this please. Get the 64bit Operating system and you can go past 4GB of RAM. I doubt you will have issues with your programs. Adobe installed fine for me as well as FTP programs. The computer I have can go up to 64GB of RAM if I wanted. Might as well get a second processor, moving files does require processing. Video card is fine, you can even go less since you don't deal with gaming or making massive image files for magazines. Basically if you aren't doing rendering or gaming you don't need a high RAM video card. Typically the bigger RAM video card you get the more RAM it takes from your PC's RAM and uses it for itself. I have a 512 video card and 4GB of RAM, so my pc now has 3.5GB of RAM because my video card stole the rest! SAS is faster. If you could get SCSI they are even faster than SAS. RAID 1 is a mirror. You have 2 drives that are identical. RAID 0 is crap, just 1 drive with a RAID stripe and its faster for data, but no redundancy. RAID 5 is what you want. That or RAID 10, which you probably cant get on a pc yet. RAID 5 is 3 or more drives, enabling you to drop one and not lose your stuff. ***NOTE*** There is 1 catch to RAID 5. You basically lose 1 drive in space to hold the RAID config. So your three 146GB drives (which are really 132 when installed) will yield you 264GB of hard drive space. Best bet is to just figure out how many GB you want and just make that work out in 2 drives and order 3 of them in RAID. If you want space go with the 300GB or 500GB in a RAID 5. Also, you really should consider getting off wireless with this computer. No matter what they say wireless N still works off the same 802.11 protocol which maxes out at 54Mbps, half the speed if wired by cat5. Don't believe the 108Mbps hype, it merely puts out a 54Mbps B and G wave at the same time, so yes its putting out 108Mbps, but you can only connect to 54Mbps! Check out your Wireless NIC properties, guarantee you it will only say 54Mbps. If you want faster speeds run a wire through the walls to your desk, it will increase your download and upload speeds, unless you are happy the way they are. Also, if you ever do run a wire, run CAT6 for gigabit speeds. Although your switch/router probably is only 10/100Mbps, using CAT6 with a 100Mbps wire will actually max out the CAT5 giving it anywhere between 200-400Mbps...better than just the 100Mbps. Jay, call me before you order this please.

Get the 64bit Operating system and you can go past 4GB of RAM. I doubt you will have issues with your programs. Adobe installed fine for me as well as FTP programs. The computer I have can go up to 64GB of RAM if I wanted.

Might as well get a second processor, moving files does require processing.

Video card is fine, you can even go less since you don’t deal with gaming or making massive image files for magazines. Basically if you aren’t doing rendering or gaming you don’t need a high RAM video card. Typically the bigger RAM video card you get the more RAM it takes from your PC’s RAM and uses it for itself. I have a 512 video card and 4GB of RAM, so my pc now has 3.5GB of RAM because my video card stole the rest!

SAS is faster. If you could get SCSI they are even faster than SAS.

RAID 1 is a mirror. You have 2 drives that are identical.

RAID 0 is crap, just 1 drive with a RAID stripe and its faster for data, but no redundancy.

RAID 5 is what you want. That or RAID 10, which you probably cant get on a pc yet. RAID 5 is 3 or more drives, enabling you to drop one and not lose your stuff.

***NOTE***
There is 1 catch to RAID 5. You basically lose 1 drive in space to hold the RAID config. So your three 146GB drives (which are really 132 when installed) will yield you 264GB of hard drive space. Best bet is to just figure out how many GB you want and just make that work out in 2 drives and order 3 of them in RAID. If you want space go with the 300GB or 500GB in a RAID 5.

Also, you really should consider getting off wireless with this computer. No matter what they say wireless N still works off the same 802.11 protocol which maxes out at 54Mbps, half the speed if wired by cat5. Don’t believe the 108Mbps hype, it merely puts out a 54Mbps B and G wave at the same time, so yes its putting out 108Mbps, but you can only connect to 54Mbps! Check out your Wireless NIC properties, guarantee you it will only say 54Mbps. If you want faster speeds run a wire through the walls to your desk, it will increase your download and upload speeds, unless you are happy the way they are.

Also, if you ever do run a wire, run CAT6 for gigabit speeds. Although your switch/router probably is only 10/100Mbps, using CAT6 with a 100Mbps wire will actually max out the CAT5 giving it anywhere between 200-400Mbps…better than just the 100Mbps.

]]> By: jayadmin http://www.kwaree.com/blog/2008/05/15/a-new-computer-what-should-i-get/#comment-89707 jayadmin Fri, 16 May 2008 13:40:39 +0000 http://www.kwaree.com/blog/?p=2063#comment-89707 Maybe...some day. Maybe…some day.

]]> By: Bertha http://www.kwaree.com/blog/2008/05/15/a-new-computer-what-should-i-get/#comment-89669 Bertha Thu, 15 May 2008 23:34:06 +0000 http://www.kwaree.com/blog/?p=2063#comment-89669 Wow...that's a lot of acronyms. Buy whatever and recycle your other one. By recycling I mean donating. By donating I mean giving. Probably the best person to give it to would be your younger sister. Wow…that’s a lot of acronyms. Buy whatever and recycle your other one. By recycling I mean donating. By donating I mean giving. Probably the best person to give it to would be your younger sister.

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