Hard Disk Performance?

[Patrick Smith]

Why is the Corsair the biggest waste of money?


>-----Original Message-----
>My system seems to suffer from poor hard disk
performance which is most
>evident when playing games. My system specs are
>
>Shuttle SN41G2 (Latest Nvidia drivers 2.03)
>Athlon XP2700+
>GF3 Ti200 Graphics (latest Nvidia Driver 43.45)
>512MB Corsair3200XLL operating at 333Mhz (biggest waste
of money ever!!)
>60GB Seagate Barracuda HD
>XP patched to SP1 + all critical updates so far.
>
>I constantly get pauses when playing games that seem to
coincide with disk
>access - XP reports that the disk is using UMDA 5, but I
thought that this
>transfer used DMA, and therefore shouldn't cause excess
CPU usage?
>
>I've tested the drive using Seagate's disktool, but it
doesn't indicate any
>problems and confirms its operating in UMDA 5.
>
>One more problem is that I've used Sandra to test the
disk performance and
>it comes up with a rating of 17500, which is much lower
than any comparison
>drives it refers to....
>
>I know this could be due to the HD, PC, drivers etc, but
if anyone could
>suggest a solution I'd be grateful.
>
>Thanks
>
>Am.
>
>
>.
>

[Jim Macklin]

you could have anti-virus scanning which would slow disk
read/writes. There could be other tasks which effect disk
performance.


"Patrick Smith" > wrote in message
...
| Why is the Corsair the biggest waste of money?
|
|
| >-----Original Message-----
| >My system seems to suffer from poor hard disk
| performance which is most
| >evident when playing games. My system specs are
| >
| >Shuttle SN41G2 (Latest Nvidia drivers 2.03)
| >Athlon XP2700+
| >GF3 Ti200 Graphics (latest Nvidia Driver 43.45)
| >512MB Corsair3200XLL operating at 333Mhz (biggest waste
| of money ever!!)
| >60GB Seagate Barracuda HD
| >XP patched to SP1 + all critical updates so far.
| >
| >I constantly get pauses when playing games that seem to
| coincide with disk
| >access - XP reports that the disk is using UMDA 5, but I
| thought that this
| >transfer used DMA, and therefore shouldn't cause excess
| CPU usage?
| >
| >I've tested the drive using Seagate's disktool, but it
| doesn't indicate any
| >problems and confirms its operating in UMDA 5.
| >
| >One more problem is that I've used Sandra to test the
| disk performance and
| >it comes up with a rating of 17500, which is much lower
| than any comparison
| >drives it refers to....
| >
| >I know this could be due to the HD, PC, drivers etc, but
| if anyone could
| >suggest a solution I'd be grateful.
| >
| >Thanks
| >
| >Am.
| >
| >
| >.
| >

[Jim Macklin]

you could have anti-virus scanning which would slow disk
read/writes. There could be other tasks which effect disk
performance.


"Patrick Smith" > wrote in message
...
| Why is the Corsair the biggest waste of money?
|
|
| >-----Original Message-----
| >My system seems to suffer from poor hard disk
| performance which is most
| >evident when playing games. My system specs are
| >
| >Shuttle SN41G2 (Latest Nvidia drivers 2.03)
| >Athlon XP2700+
| >GF3 Ti200 Graphics (latest Nvidia Driver 43.45)
| >512MB Corsair3200XLL operating at 333Mhz (biggest waste
| of money ever!!)
| >60GB Seagate Barracuda HD
| >XP patched to SP1 + all critical updates so far.
| >
| >I constantly get pauses when playing games that seem to
| coincide with disk
| >access - XP reports that the disk is using UMDA 5, but I
| thought that this
| >transfer used DMA, and therefore shouldn't cause excess
| CPU usage?
| >
| >I've tested the drive using Seagate's disktool, but it
| doesn't indicate any
| >problems and confirms its operating in UMDA 5.
| >
| >One more problem is that I've used Sandra to test the
| disk performance and
| >it comes up with a rating of 17500, which is much lower
| than any comparison
| >drives it refers to....
| >
| >I know this could be due to the HD, PC, drivers etc, but
| if anyone could
| >suggest a solution I'd be grateful.
| >
| >Thanks
| >
| >Am.
| >
| >
| >.
| >

[Amnesia]

Patrick,

Its about twice as expensive as generic DDR3200 (Crucial) and from all the
tests I've been able to do, is no quicker.

I could of had 1GB of memory instead of 512MB for the same price :-( .

But then perhaps its the nforce2 chipset.....

Am.

"Patrick Smith" > wrote in message
...
> Why is the Corsair the biggest waste of money?
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >My system seems to suffer from poor hard disk
> performance which is most
> >evident when playing games. My system specs are
> >
> >Shuttle SN41G2 (Latest Nvidia drivers 2.03)
> >Athlon XP2700+
> >GF3 Ti200 Graphics (latest Nvidia Driver 43.45)
> >512MB Corsair3200XLL operating at 333Mhz (biggest waste
> of money ever!!)
> >60GB Seagate Barracuda HD
> >XP patched to SP1 + all critical updates so far.
> >
> >I constantly get pauses when playing games that seem to
> coincide with disk
> >access - XP reports that the disk is using UMDA 5, but I
> thought that this
> >transfer used DMA, and therefore shouldn't cause excess
> CPU usage?
> >
> >I've tested the drive using Seagate's disktool, but it
> doesn't indicate any
> >problems and confirms its operating in UMDA 5.
> >
> >One more problem is that I've used Sandra to test the
> disk performance and
> >it comes up with a rating of 17500, which is much lower
> than any comparison
> >drives it refers to....
> >
> >I know this could be due to the HD, PC, drivers etc, but
> if anyone could
> >suggest a solution I'd be grateful.
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >Am.
> >
> >
> >.
> >

[Amnesia]

Patrick,

Its about twice as expensive as generic DDR3200 (Crucial) and from all the
tests I've been able to do, is no quicker.

I could of had 1GB of memory instead of 512MB for the same price :-( .

But then perhaps its the nforce2 chipset.....

Am.

"Patrick Smith" > wrote in message
...
> Why is the Corsair the biggest waste of money?
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >My system seems to suffer from poor hard disk
> performance which is most
> >evident when playing games. My system specs are
> >
> >Shuttle SN41G2 (Latest Nvidia drivers 2.03)
> >Athlon XP2700+
> >GF3 Ti200 Graphics (latest Nvidia Driver 43.45)
> >512MB Corsair3200XLL operating at 333Mhz (biggest waste
> of money ever!!)
> >60GB Seagate Barracuda HD
> >XP patched to SP1 + all critical updates so far.
> >
> >I constantly get pauses when playing games that seem to
> coincide with disk
> >access - XP reports that the disk is using UMDA 5, but I
> thought that this
> >transfer used DMA, and therefore shouldn't cause excess
> CPU usage?
> >
> >I've tested the drive using Seagate's disktool, but it
> doesn't indicate any
> >problems and confirms its operating in UMDA 5.
> >
> >One more problem is that I've used Sandra to test the
> disk performance and
> >it comes up with a rating of 17500, which is much lower
> than any comparison
> >drives it refers to....
> >
> >I know this could be due to the HD, PC, drivers etc, but
> if anyone could
> >suggest a solution I'd be grateful.
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >Am.
> >
> >
> >.
> >