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lodofnazgul
12-11-07, 19:13
Does the samsun HD501LJ 500gb include sata2 cable with it. Does Core2duo E6750 include thermal compound or i need to get one to build the pc..... plz help...
lodofnazgul
12-11-07, 19:17
Do i need anything else ...

Is this spec any good..

Intel Core2Duo E6750 2.66ghz
Asus P5KPL-VM, iG31 LGA775 Core2 Quad / Extreme / Core2 Duo
Xilence 480W Gaming PSU
Patriot 2GB PC2-6400 C4 Extreme Performance (2x1GB)
nVidia GeForce 8400GS 256MB PCI-E
samsung HD501LJ 500gb 16mb cache
Micky007
12-11-07, 19:23
yea everything seems fine, the hd does not come with a SATA cable, that will come with your motherboard. Also if i remember correctly as long as the CPU is Retail it will come with the thermal compound.
lodofnazgul
12-11-07, 19:27
thnx, is it sata2 cable that comes with motherboard or just sata standard cable. And how many sata2 cables sre incl. is it just one or like couple of them. What about ATA 133 cable for the dvd drive
Micky007
12-11-07, 19:34
Hi,

Yes you will get IDE Cables aswell for the dvd drive and for any IDe hard drive you may have in the future. Im not sure if there just standard Sata cables you get with the motherboard. Sorry i carnt be any more help to you on that one.
lodofnazgul
12-11-07, 19:34
how is the motherboard compared to asus pk5 ip35..
Micky007
12-11-07, 19:42
1min let me check
Micky007
12-11-07, 19:45
Erm.... i carnt seem to find that second motherboard, make sure its right please.

Whats the quickcode?
PeterStoba
12-11-07, 19:49
27298 i assume Micky.
Micky007
12-11-07, 19:51
ok cheers,

also there seems to be some confusion about the difference between cables branded as SATA or SATA2. Many companies that produce the cables and even the retailers selling the cables add to the confusion by branding some cables as SATA and other as SATA2. I even have some Thermaltake SATA UV cables that are clearly sold as 150Mb/s maximum transfer rate. It would then make sense that these cables would not be good to use with a SATA2 hard drive that is capable of 300Mb/s transfer speeds.

Before going any farther I do just want to make one clarification. The transfer speeds of 150mb/s and 300mb/s in no way mean that a SATA2 drive is twice as fast as a SATA drive. Current hard drives are not even able to fully utilize the 150mb/s transfer speed. These numbers are more descriptive of burst speed.

Finally on to the cables. There is no difference in maximum transfer speeds between cables labeled as SATA vs. SATA2. The only difference is that most SATA2 cables have a locking mechanism.
Micky007
12-11-07, 19:53
ok i was you id get the
ASUS P5K Intel iP35 Socket 775 Motherboard
Aaron
12-11-07, 23:44
Id look at getting a bit more of a beefy psu too..
mac124
13-11-07, 07:26
Nah that psu will be fine for that spec, what are you going to be using it for?
John LG
14-11-07, 21:06
...there seems to be some confusion about the difference between cables branded as SATA or SATA2. Many companies that produce the cables and even the retailers selling the cables add to the confusion by branding some cables as SATA and other as SATA2. I even have some Thermaltake SATA UV cables that are clearly sold as 150Mb/s maximum transfer rate. It would then make sense that these cables would not be good to use with a SATA2 hard drive that is capable of 300Mb/s transfer speeds.

Before going any farther I do just want to make one clarification. The transfer speeds of 150mb/s and 300mb/s in no way mean that a SATA2 drive is twice as fast as a SATA drive. Current hard drives are not even able to fully utilize the 150mb/s transfer speed. These numbers are more descriptive of burst speed.

Finally on to the cables. There is no difference in maximum transfer speeds between cables labeled as SATA vs. SATA2. The only difference is that most SATA2 cables have a locking mechanism.
That's helpful Micky, cheers. Would you say then that when choosing a new hard drive the cache is more important that sata/sata2? Or is it debatable how much difference there is between 4,8,16mb cache?
Micky007
14-11-07, 21:10
higher the catch the better the drive is. If your looking for speed then you need to look for the RPM i think its called
John LG
14-11-07, 21:21
Do i need anything else ...

Is this spec any good..

Intel Core2Duo E6750 2.66ghz
Asus P5KPL-VM, iG31 LGA775 Core2 Quad / Extreme / Core2 Duo
Xilence 480W Gaming PSU
Patriot 2GB PC2-6400 C4 Extreme Performance (2x1GB)
nVidia GeForce 8400GS 256MB PCI-E
samsung HD501LJ 500gb 16mb cache

I'm sure the spec is good if these guys say so.
Do you need anything else? Well apart from the obvious case, kbd/mse, optical drive, monitor, OS etc... but what about sound card? Is the onboard good?
Do most of you guys out there use on-board sound or do go with Creative etc? People always slate onboard graphics, but I guess the sound of gun shot and deathly screams is good what ever sound card you have?
Finally, I can't see if this board has firewire ports - will you need one for DV work? You can get a pci card from Aria for about a tenner if you do.