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TarJak · 04-30-08, 01:14 AM

There may be a reason that you are seeing failures on your HDD and Grfx card. If I were you I'd up the size of the PSU. 550w is probably at the low end for the rig you are running and I'd look at going for something along the lines of at least 600w if it were mine. When I first tried upgrading my old rig I found that the PSU was causing what looked like faults with the HDD and Grfx card and as soon as I upped the PSU I got flwaless performance from all the kit. I went for an 700w unit for future upgrades and to allow for the USB peripheral load, Joystick, Wheel, Printer, scanner, wireless mouse and keyboard, microphone, webcam etc...

I'd go Seagate or Western Digital for the HDD everytime. I've used both of these extensivley and can say I've never had one fail on me. (touches nearest wooden object i.e; my head).

I've got a 7900GS and also haven't had a problem with that either. If I was in the market now I'd got for an 8800GTS.

One other thing I've found invaluable is a pair of 500GB external USB 2.0 HDD drives which are slower to access but great for being able to back up images of the system and data drives on the PC. The cost of these has gone through the floor recently and to be able to pick up an extra 1TB of storage for less than AU$400 is a huge boon for data hoarders like me.

04-30-08, 01:14 AM	#2
TarJak Fleet Admiral Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 17,052 Downloads: 150 Uploads: 8	There may be a reason that you are seeing failures on your HDD and Grfx card. If I were you I'd up the size of the PSU. 550w is probably at the low end for the rig you are running and I'd look at going for something along the lines of at least 600w if it were mine. When I first tried upgrading my old rig I found that the PSU was causing what looked like faults with the HDD and Grfx card and as soon as I upped the PSU I got flwaless performance from all the kit. I went for an 700w unit for future upgrades and to allow for the USB peripheral load, Joystick, Wheel, Printer, scanner, wireless mouse and keyboard, microphone, webcam etc... I'd go Seagate or Western Digital for the HDD everytime. I've used both of these extensivley and can say I've never had one fail on me. (touches nearest wooden object i.e; my head). I've got a 7900GS and also haven't had a problem with that either. If I was in the market now I'd got for an 8800GTS. One other thing I've found invaluable is a pair of 500GB external USB 2.0 HDD drives which are slower to access but great for being able to back up images of the system and data drives on the PC. The cost of these has gone through the floor recently and to be able to pick up an extra 1TB of storage for less than AU$400 is a huge boon for data hoarders like me.