alapic

That's what I always thought... and now I'm not so sure....after getting CKY's suggestion for the aaks, I eventually did some more googling and found several reviews.
Apparently the cache size won't give much noticeable improvement from 16 to 32. The access speed is apparently slow but the overall performance in the real world is supposed to be pretty good. I didn't keep any links but this is what I remember and decided to go for the aaks 640gb.
My storage drives that I use mainly for larger media files have the 32 MB cache. I'm not sure if this help in streaming my audio and video files though.

I found out why CKY suggested the 640, it is based on 320gb platters as opposed to the 200gb platters. the 320 platters are also quietter
I use to have the 500gb aaks in IDE mode and Vista's perfomance index score was 5.8
And with my new 640gb aaks in IDE mode the Vista's perfomance index score is 5.9(highest possible). I know this isn't the best for bench mark but still gives me an Idea.


I did a lot of research before buying my parts and I was also hoping to get more feedback from this post. I guess I was on the right track

alapic

Alright finnaly got it all done and OCed.
I still have the feeling that its not fast enough.... If you have any questions about pros and cons, feel free to ask.

Anyways here are some pics of the system...

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