how many hard drives can you have in a pc and what is the best grapices card for a AMD 1900+
2007-05-23 07:10:11 · 12 answers · asked by Ashley 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
You can have as many as your tower can fit it, then you can have external hard drives aswell. Graphics card for an AMD 1900+ NVIDIA G FORCE, about £200.
2007-05-23 07:17:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This really depends an a few things. The typical motherboard comes with two IDE/SATA channels which allow 2 drives each (or 4 total). The CD/DVDROM takes up 1, a floppy drive, if available, would take up another, and your original hard drive takes up a third. So, you can add a second drive to most systems and if you don't have a floppy, you can add a second one.
You also have the option of purchasing another PCI-based interface card which would allow you to add even more hard drives.
One thing to note: Hard drives use power. Even though you might be able to configure your system to use 12 hard drives, you still need a power supply that can handle all of those drives. If you connect 4 drives and start having issues, your PSU isn't up to the task and should be replaced. Also, if you add a Graphics Card that has hefty PSU requirements, then you need to take that into account as well.
As for the graphics card, the best you can afford. I would go for one of the 8800 Nvidia cards. They have some cheaper ones out there and they will be directx 10 compatible, so I personally would get a cheap 8800 over a similarly priced 79xx card. You can translate this over to the ATI cards, but I don't know there numbering scheme since I stick with Nvidia only.
2007-05-23 07:51:11 · answer #2 · answered by Brian A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Two questions in one, and one a lot easier to answer than the other :)
I'll start with the easy one. If you are looking to buy a graphics-card to go with an Athlon XP 1900+ CPU, then my recommendation would be nothing faster than a GeForce 6600, which can be picked on eBay these days quite cheaply. Ensure it is an AGP model as you motherboard will not have a PCIe slot, and ensure the card has 256MB of memory. Some will say a GeForce 6600 is overkill for an XP 1900+, but 6600's are so cheap anyway that you may as well get one.
How many hard-drives you can have is generally limited only by your case and your PSU (the PC's power-supply unit) ability to supply the power to run them. There is also a limit to the number of drives supported by the controllers on your motherboard which could limit you to a maximum of four in total of optical-drives (DVD/CD) and hard-drives together if your motherboard only supports IDE and not SATA drives, which may well be the case given your CPU.
I don't know what you might have been intending to install more drives for, but most people rarely need more than four drives- two optical drives plus two hard drives; the ever falling cost of hard-drives makes it easier to simply remove the oldest one and replace it with a newer much faster higher capacity drive than bother keeping more drives than necessary in the system.
2007-05-23 07:30:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
PrinceGaz got it on the graphics and HDD question.
Your hard drive space will be limited to the connections your motherboard has - it is really that simple.
There is a theory about the amount of HDDs you can have though, and it goes a little something like:
For every letter of the alphabet (the english alphabet), except for A and B (and this assumes you have no requirement for anything but HDD's) so the actual max amount is 24 - whether or not there is a system out there that supports 24 HDD's or whether that is practicle is an entirely different story.
It was a very long time ago I heard this...but I'm 90% sure A & B cannot be used - the rest of the letters are available.
2007-05-24 08:17:28 · answer #4 · answered by Woz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hard drives - depends on how many controllers you have. At least two, typically 4, but more if you have SATA.
Graphics card, in my opinion, no more than an ATI 9700 or Geforce 4 with an Athlon 1900+. You will get as many different opinions on graphics cards as you will on the number of people responding!
2007-05-23 07:16:55 · answer #5 · answered by waltzme2heaven 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-05-23 07:15:04 · answer #6 · answered by Hoodoo 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Yes you can buy a stand alone hard drive which plugs into a usb port and has its own power supply. You can save to it and from it and work directly onto it but the O/S will remain in the pc you are plugged into. Yes a 100GB is much more than 516mb! To transfer from your pc to external HD just right click and click on "send to". The external drive will have a drive letter alocated to it such as E or F or maybe even G, depending upon how many the pc already has.
2016-05-21 00:01:08 · answer #7 · answered by ebonie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it's IDE, most mother boards have two ide ports that can handle 2 drives each making 4. can be any mix of hard disk, cd, dvd. If it's SATA then one drive per port on the board. Of course you can buy add-on cards to take extra drives. If you are going to max out on drives you may want to upgrade the power supply
2007-05-23 22:34:02 · answer #8 · answered by The original Peter G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As many as you can fit in, some servers we have has as many as 12, but I seen a few with more.
Best VGA card for XP1900 ? I dont think its a good investment, wait till you upgrade your PC then pick a PCI-E model, as I doubt if your current board will have that.
2007-05-23 07:16:36 · answer #9 · answered by Cupcake 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It basically depends on your system board. If your system board has two IDE connections then it can support four, but if it has a SCSI connection, then it can support up to 13 I believe. If it is SATA then it can support I believe up to 12. As for the Video card go with NVidia or ATI.
2007-05-23 07:16:58 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋