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To: Jeff Jordan who wrote (9943)	1/15/2000 11:42:00 AM
From: wily	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

>>this board is only UDMA 33....does anyone think this will effect the performance much?<< I think you'll be nicely surprised by the performance of a 7200RPM drive even at ATA33. I find it hard to believe that ATA66 would make that big a difference as it is already super fast, but OTOH I'm sure I'll be looking for a board that supports it next time I upgrade my mobo. There's a couple relevant articles from Storage Review: Sequential Transfer Rates: An examination of its effects on performance (see Reviews/Oct99) and ATA-66 vs. ATA-33, The Real Story (Reviews/Aug99) storagereview.com I'm tempted right now to get a dual celeron 366/550/BP6 package from Minotaur. I had this package from someone else before but the Celerons were from early production weeks and ran hot and were not stable at 550 so I sent it back. The BP6 has ATA66. I'll have to wait for win2000 to enable SMP though, since I don't like NT (doesn't support my vid capture card or my dual monitors). Or if I wait another few months I could probably get a killer overclocked Athlon dual package running around 700 or 800MHz for a few hundred dollars more. wily