Best Hard Drive for 800 FSB chip

[hodunwun]

Will be building a ATX unit with an Asus 800 MB and a p4 3.0 gig cpu. I want to take adavantage of the FSB speed with a decent 7200 HD. ONe that has a fast buss also. Don't need a lot of space though, 40 gig HD would do fine, even 20 gig. Any suggestions?
Thanks for your attention.
Doug

[Panama Red]

Best value is the 80Gb mark. Go with Seagate or Western Digital. Seagate has a longer warranty, 5 yrs vs 3 yrs. Also, make sure you pick one with an 8Mb cache. If your system supports SATA hard drives, you might want to consider one of those instead of standard IDE.

[heymrdj]

Sounds like you should get an SATA drive if your motherboards supports it. No need to worry about your computer's bus speed. The 800FSB bus does 3.2GB's on my board :P. SATA is 150mb/s and SATAII (fastest drive for consumers) is 300mb's.

[minsonngo]

What is the brand and model of the motherboard your planning to get?

[hodunwun]

New MB is an Asus p4p800s-x with a P4 3.0 gig Prescott. I was going to upgrade next year but my existing Asus MB gave out. No memory on the new board. Don't know what it supports so it is up to you guys to tell me. I don't know if this Asus board supports the the SATA drive either. Any suggestions are helpful. Also, what for memory? Want at a gig or so? In the last couple years I have lost touch with what's out there. Thanks for the infor on the IDE HD's. I forgot about looking the the large HD cache. For my purposes they would be ok. Still I'll check into the Sata drive (? any sites) I'm not a gamer though I have an old G-force card with 64 megs. The build will be going into an four year old atx alluminum case with a bunch of fans and one clear side. It's made by Huggabee I think it was. Got a fan on the front, fan with a cowl underneath the power supply that empties out the back and one other one but can't remember where. I'm gonna see if I can keep the build under 500. Already have the cd,dvd,zip and floppy. Usb 2.0 and firewire cards. I'm getting excited. Have to read up on building here at the PC site.
Thanks again. I'll be asking more questions no doubt. This will be my third build.
Doug

[minsonngo]

Here is what the ASUS P4P800S-X supports: http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?m...=3&l2=12&l3=29

[glc]

http://www.directron.com/p4p800sx.html

848P chipset, DDR400 ram, no dual channel, 2 slots. 2 IDE channels, 2 SATA ports.

Get a SATA hard drive and a single 1 gig DDR400 dimm.

[hodunwun]

Thanks GLC. Got a 80 gig sata 8 meg HD and 1 gig of 400 ddr memory coming from NewEgg. Said the memory was non buffered. Is that ok? Also got a dual fan 400 watt PS. Will start assembling soon. I've got $350 into the build so far. Thanks for your attention.
Doug

[Cricket]

Originally Posted by hodunwun Said the memory was non buffered. Is that ok?

Yep, that's the correct memory.

Cricket