Need Feedback on Hypersonic

Many thanks for this info.
D
"Gnasher" wrote in message
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On this day of our lord, Sat, 23 Aug 2003 18:09:18 GMT, "Dudley
Henriques" quilled:

I'm seriously considering a new gaming machine. Anyone out there have
anything they can tell me about Hypersonic computers? Good or bad, it
will
really help me in making a final decision. Keep in mind I'm interested in
flight simulators as my only "game" please. If you have any
recommendations
within the system itself, please feel free to tell me what they are. I
have
to choose between Anthlon and Pentium for example, and Nvidia and ATI.
All comments will be appreciated believe me.
Thanks.
Dudley


Ever considered building your own instead? Takes a bit more work but
you get exactly what you want. But if buying a pre-built the best
advice I can give is buy the fastest and most (HD, ram etc.) you can
afford. Intel P4's with 800mhz FSB are the best performers right now
but cost more than AMD too. I would say an AMD Barton 2500+ cpu with
an Nforce2 motherboard, Sapphire Radeon 9800 OEM vid card, ATA100
7200rpm120+gb HD and at least 512mb of PC3200 (400mhz) ram will
provide the most bang for the buck. That's what I would buy if
building a fast system and on a budget. But I do use an Intel P4
system right now.

Don't forget serial ATA if you want a bit more punch.


"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
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Many thanks for this info.

Hi Kevin,

Serial ATA 2 will be out soon, and, as the current ATA is said by some
to be not quite up to scratch, I'd not worry about it yet.

Regards,
John
"Kevin©" wrote in message
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Don't forget serial ATA if you want a bit more punch.


"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
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Many thanks for this info.

At the prices of the SATA drives, it'll probably need to be SATA3 before I
bite.


"John Ward" wrote in message
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Hi Kevin,

Serial ATA 2 will be out soon, and, as the current ATA is said by some
to be not quite up to scratch, I'd not worry about it yet.

Regards,
John
"Kevin©" wrote in message
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Don't forget serial ATA if you want a bit more punch.


"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
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Many thanks for this info.

I agree, and by then they'll probably be 20,000 RPM or so on anyway...

Regards,
John
"Kevin©" wrote in message
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At the prices of the SATA drives, it'll probably need to be SATA3 before I
bite.


"John Ward" wrote in message
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Hi Kevin,

Serial ATA 2 will be out soon, and, as the current ATA is said by
some
to be not quite up to scratch, I'd not worry about it yet.

Regards,
John
"Kevin©" wrote in message
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Don't forget serial ATA if you want a bit more punch.


"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
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Many thanks for this info.

On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 08:36:42 +1000, "John Ward"
wrote:

Hi Kevin,

Serial ATA 2 will be out soon, and, as the current ATA is said by some
to be not quite up to scratch, I'd not worry about it yet.

Serial ATA 2 is just a bunch of extensions to SATA intended for use in
servers. (quite usefull extensions, but not for a gaming machine)

You are probably thinking about the faster speeds, but that isn;t
interesting either. Simply because there is not a single harddisk that
is limited by the speed of SATA1 or even by ATA/133.

In fact, for a gaming rig I would just buy a recent 7k IDE HDD.
Harddisks are not a bottleneck in games, (there are hardly used at
all) unless you have the slow 4200 rpm laptop harddisks.

Marc