i have built my new pc 2 monts ago and i am really happy with it.
i have :
- Asus A7N8x-E DeluxeWiFi Edition which really rocks for the price
- AMD Athlon XP 3000+ Barton
- 512Mo Kingston RAM
- 120Go Maxtor HD
- my old Audiophile 2496 sound card
i hesitated between SATA and classic ATA hard drives, and finally i bought a normal ATA! actually, the bus frequency is only 15Mo higher than normal drives and i don't think that is a real big difference! SATA is quite new and i didn't want to bother myself with it, knowing that i will certainly move my hard drive to different PCs, not necessarly equiped with SATA ports.
And what discouraged me too is that SATA drives warm very quickly, the Maxtor Diamond 9 had that problem according to a friend of mine, and that's one of the fixes they released in the Diamond 10.
Anyway, the choice of SATA or ATA is a personal opinion i think, as far as i was concerned, for only few Mo of difference, i chose to use a classic drive.
The machine is until now stable, i didn't get any
blue screen of death and crossed fingers!!
