Need a PC build guide

[koingnegsegg]

Haha i see.
It wont be the HD that turns it into the wind tunnel though. Makes more of a wirring noise as opposed to a blowing noise.

[a-4-year-old]

jrgp theres still risk of static shock.

How loud are 10000RPM hard drives exactly?  is it worth some noise for the performance?

Hard drive is the bottleneck for computers. If you're concerned about noise (if you have it in your bedroom) then you could just look for a decent case which should take care of much of the sound.  I used a 10,000 rpm and the noise is very low.

You probably won't notice the speed until you work with large files/defrag

[jrgp]

jrgp theres still risk of static shock.

Oh, I forgot to mention that to avoid static electricity that's in your body from harming your components, it's best to either wear a antistatic wrist band or touch the bare metal side of your computer's case before unplugging and working on its internals.

[PQ]

jrgp theres still risk of static shock.

Oh, I forgot to mention that to avoid static electricity that's in your body from harming your components, it's best to either wear a antistatic wrist band or touch the bare metal side of your computer's case before unplugging and working on its internals.

Last time I saw someone wear one of there was about 10 years ago. Just touch the case and you'll be fine.

[N. Escalona]

jrgp theres still risk of static shock.

Oh, I forgot to mention that to avoid static electricity that's in your body from harming your components, it's best to either wear a antistatic wrist band or touch the bare metal side of your computer's case before unplugging and working on its internals.

Last time I saw someone wear one of there was about 10 years ago. Just touch the case and you'll be fine.

I read something somewhere that said that touching the case actually does nothing at all.
But my memory isn't exactly world-renowned so w/e.

[jrgp]

jrgp theres still risk of static shock.

Oh, I forgot to mention that to avoid static electricity that's in your body from harming your components, it's best to either wear a antistatic wrist band or touch the bare metal side of your computer's case before unplugging and working on its internals.

Last time I saw someone wear one of there was about 10 years ago. Just touch the case and you'll be fine.

I read something somewhere that said that touching the case actually does nothing at all.

It does if the computer is still plugged in, because touching the metal of the case discharges whatever's in your hand to the case which stuffs the static electricity into the ground.

[Wormdundee]

a4yo is correct. You should always try and get a 10,000 rpm hard drive if possible. It's fairly easy to tell that the hard drive is the bottleneck when you look at how much the architecture of a computer tries to minimize hard drive access.

It's the whole point of RAM really. And even RAM isn't fast enough for the CPU (mostly because of the physical distance from the RAM to the CPU), that's why there are such things as the L1 and L2 cache right on the chip or very close to it.

As other people mentioned, the noise of a hard drive is pretty much negligible unless you are doing something that is hard drive intensive (i.e. defragging).

[koingnegsegg]

You could even step it up to a 15000 rpm if your up for it..