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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	This is all in an effort to put something together that gets close to some sort multi-media system and figured this would be the place to ask. If there's a more appropriate forum feel free to move it. My old system recently fried so i put together a new box, new MB (gigabyte) 800 celeron 196 mg ram plus a 40 gig HD. So the situation is this; I'm up and running with the original 4 gig HD which is partioned at approx 2 gig per. C: for programs - D: for data. How I use the system and plan to use it. Graphics obviously. Some sound stuff. voice recording... not singing just 'voice.' Cakewalk or Bandinabox just to 'pick' along with...and down the road I'd like to get a R/W CD. Very few games but I would like to run them... mostly just to see what's out there. My thinking at this point is to keep the 4 gig as the primary, slave the 40 gig. This is where I start to get confused. I'm told that the 4/40 configuration will slow performance because the 40 will basically default to the slower 4 gig. But even if that is the case I don't like the idea of a single 40 gig HD. How would 'you' parition that 40 gig so that Win98 - PS- afterfx- etc. have their own scratch disks and how much would you give each. I'm thinking 2 gig. I'm also keeping in mind Mr.Max's advice to keep partitions under 8gig to avoid wasting space. I'm also told, & don't understand this at all... tht if I do the 4/40 config... what is now "D" on the small HD will actually become "E" and the big HD will become "D" Now how the hell does that work? Ohh.. almost forgot the video card... a not so speedy S3Virge... will have to do for now. Soundcard is a SB128. Would much rather have kept my old but very good (imo) Gravis UltraMax but the new MB has only one ISA slot and the Modem got that. :D All thoughts are much appreciated. And please keep in mind that while I'm not a complete klutz feel free to talk to me like a complete dummy. thnx ppl nj Loading...
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