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Hi there, I'm going to be making a new PC soon mainly for Maya and Sony Vegas work, but for gaming as well. Specs will include an E4300, an Asus P5B, 2GB of Corsair TWINX DDR2-800 RAM and a 2600PRO.
I'm concerned with wanting to use my Western Digital 2500JB hard drive. It is a 7200RPM, 250GB EIDE hard drive. I know there will be no compatibility issues, even the newest mobos still have IDE buses, but will it bottleneck my new computer's performance when running a game or the video/3D applications I listed above? or does the performance quality of the hard drive only dictate how fast something will load or how fast files can be moved in correlation with the processing power of the CPU?
I'm assuming that getting a modern CPU will maximize the efficiency in which data can be moved, so the hard drive will not be bottlenecked by the cpu and perform at full capacity. My current cpu, a 1.6GHz Pentium 4 (Willamette core) running on SDRAM, not DDR, feels like it's really holding up some of my hard drive's capability.
I appreciate any explanations.
I'm concerned with wanting to use my Western Digital 2500JB hard drive. It is a 7200RPM, 250GB EIDE hard drive. I know there will be no compatibility issues, even the newest mobos still have IDE buses, but will it bottleneck my new computer's performance when running a game or the video/3D applications I listed above? or does the performance quality of the hard drive only dictate how fast something will load or how fast files can be moved in correlation with the processing power of the CPU?
I'm assuming that getting a modern CPU will maximize the efficiency in which data can be moved, so the hard drive will not be bottlenecked by the cpu and perform at full capacity. My current cpu, a 1.6GHz Pentium 4 (Willamette core) running on SDRAM, not DDR, feels like it's really holding up some of my hard drive's capability.
I appreciate any explanations.