Barton 2500 overclocks?

[Avid6eek]

Anyone else here overclocking a Barton 2500? Just wondering what kind of results your looking at. So far this is all I got....<BR><BR>204FSB x 12 = 2.448Ghz<BR>1.8v

[NaSTy]

Hey Shiz I know this ain't nothin to do with ya post.. but I just have to ask how ya Raptor goes? <BR>Is there much difference from a 7200rpm??.. Coz I remember when i had this old 5400rpm and it didn't show much difference to me 7200rpm. what kinda seek time do ya get on that thing?

[Ginsu543]

Really? I felt a huge difference (especially in boot time) when I switched from a 5400rpm to a 7200rpm drive. I assume there must be a similar difference with the 10k drives.

[NaSTy]

Oh maybe it was just me then... I didn't know much about computers back then. Could it have something to do with the capacity?<BR>But then again I still have this 18Gb no-name HDD thats as old as the hills and i get same performance out of that thing as I do with me 20Gb Quantum...

[Ginsu543]

You know, nasty, I don't think it has to do with capacity... I could tell a performance boost when I switched from a 30GB 5400rpm Maxtor hdd to a 30GB 7200rpm Maxtor hdd. The higher rpm should mean faster seek times because the platters inside the hdd are spinning faster, giving faster access to information stored on the cylinders. At least that's the limit of my understanding of hdd technology, LOL!

[Avid6eek]

Raptor Seek Time - 5.2MS<BR><BR>I noticed a huge difference between 5400 and 7200rpm drives. I'm still having trouble getting my raptor to work right so I can't really say yet. Density does have something to do w/ drive speed. The bigger drives have extremely dense platters. This means all the data is packed into such a small area, the drive head does have to move much to get everything it needs. This is assuming that you don't fill a 200GB HD. Most people will only use 5-10GB of that space. Most data I ever had on my WD 120GB is 13GB.

[NaSTy]

<br><br><< <i>Really? I felt a huge difference (especially in boot time) when I switched from a 5400rpm to a 7200rpm drive</i> >><br><br><br><br><< <i>I noticed a huge difference between 5400 and 7200rpm drives</i> >><br><br><BR>Hmmmm.. maybe i got a dodgy hdd.<BR><BR>5.2ms seek time, thats awesome!! I want one <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

[Avid6eek]

I went from a 22.6GB IBM 5200rpm drive to a Maxtor 7200 40GB drive and the difference was just as large as switching from a PII 450Mhz to a Athlon XP 1600. Boot times, and application load times were significantly reduced.

[roy]

<br><br><< <i>This is assuming that you don't fill a 200GB HD. Most people will only use 5-10GB of that space. Most data I ever had on my WD 120GB is 13GB. </i> >><br><br><BR>Waaaa? I filled up my 120 in a month, my 80 is almost half full in less than two weeks. Help.

[Avid6eek]

LOL....Damn. WTF r u doing? I don't keep useless files (music, videos, pictures) on my primary HD. That's what I have a secondary for.

[TranceJunkieXL]

<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-shocked.gif" border="0"> No kidding. 120GB<month? 80GB<2 weeks?!!<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-shocked.gif" border="0"> Don't you have a CD burner or a ZIP drive?