hi everybody,
and congratulations for your great website.
i’ve found help here lots of times previously but its now time to ask my own question because i know, you will save me a lot of time and money.
im thinking of upgrading my old computer. and ofcourse its going to be hard to find the parts i want. The problem is i dont know exactly what parts i need to use.
i want to upgrade my RAM and also buy a new hard drive.
i ll paste you the SIW information, i think it will be the most convenient.
here’s the motherboard page:
Property Value
Model Springdale-P
Chipset Vendor Intel Corporation
Chipset Model 82865G/PE/P, 82848P DRAM Controller / Host-Hub Interface
South Bridge 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge
SMBus Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller @0500h
CPU Intel Pentium 4 HT
Cpu Socket Socket 478
Processor Upgrade ZIF Socket
System Slots 5 PCI, 1 AGP
Memory Summary
Location System board or motherboard
Maximum Capacity 4096 MBytes
Memory Slots 4
Error Correction None
Use System memory
Maximum Memory Module Size 1024 MBytes
Warning! Accuracy of DMI data cannot be guaranteed
and here’s the memory page:
Property Value
Memory Summary
Location System board or motherboard
Maximum Capacity 4096 MBytes
Memory Slots 4
Error Correction None
Use System memory
Maximum Memory Module Size 1024 MBytes
Device Locator Slot 1
Manufacturer Transcend Information
Serial Number 00000000
Capacity 512 MBytes
Memory Type SDRAM DDR
Speed PC3200 (200 MHz)
Data Width 64 bits
Voltage SSTL 2.5V
Error Correction None
Refresh Reduced (.5x)…7.8 ?s
Manufacturing Date N/A
EPP SPD Support No
Device Locator Slot 3
Manufacturer Transcend Information
Serial Number 00000000
Capacity 512 MBytes
Memory Type SDRAM DDR
Speed PC3200 (200 MHz)
Data Width 64 bits
Voltage SSTL 2.5V
Error Correction None
Refresh Reduced (.5x)…7.8 ?s
Manufacturing Date N/A
EPP SPD Support No
Warning! Accuracy of DMI data cannot be guaranteed
(by the way i think my motherboard is Albatron,
965 tecpro or something :))
ok… what i want to do now
is remove the two memory chips i have and buy 4 new 1gb each.
i also want to add a new HD in the sata bus.
here are my questions:
1. exactly what kind of ram should i be looking for?
2. what is the best type my mb can take?
3.(what is the “Refresh Reduced (.5x)…7.8 ?s” in the memory description? is that bad?)
about the hard drives, i want to add a 500gb sata drive, but i dont know what kind of sata im after. i already have a 36gb WD raptror 10k rpm installed if that helps.
4. what kind of sata drive should i look for?
5. is there some site that you could suggest where i could order all these stuff in europe?
one more secondary question about something i dont understand: in the storage part of SIW i get these results:
Type Vendor Model Size Interface Temperature
Fixed hard disk media Western Digital WDC WD2000JB-00GVA0 200 GBytes IDE ATA 27 ?C (81 ?F)
Direct Access Device Western Digital WDC WD2000JB-32FUA0 200 GBytes IDE ATA
Fixed hard disk media Western Digital WDC WD2500JB-00GVC0 250 GBytes IDE ATA 29 ?C (84 ?F)
Fixed hard disk media Western Digital WDC WD360GD-00FLC0 37 GBytes IDE ATA 33 ?C (91 ?F)
DVD Writer NEC _NEC DVD_RW ND-3520A IDE ATAPI
DVD SG7510M SG7510M UGS377L SCSI CdRom Device SCSI
6. why are all my drives labeled as “fixed hard drives” and one of them labeled as “direct access device”? is that bad?
7. ow, and do the temperatures look ok? 🙂
i would like to thank you in advance. i hope you can help me out as your reply will save me a lot of time and money
keep up the good work guys, i hope u all have a great xmass
cheers
Harry K.
