Your ability to play the video on the other drive, in my opinion, eliminates the video card or video drivers as a cause. The only thing that changes is the location of the file, so it is logical to assume there is something wrong with the drive. If playing videos the only thing that slows down? You can try some hard drive benchmarks to see if they run fine in both drives.
And oh, by the way, since I re-read the thread - do not confuse SLI in the context of video cards with SLI memory. Those are two completely different and unrelated things.
The "Sli" ram is just a fancy heat spreader nothing more.fivex84
That is not true. SLI RAM has profile information embedded in the memory itself which automatically configures the memory settings optimally. A SLI compatible motherboard would eat this stuff up...
Backing up your data is a great idea. You can then look for the maxtor diagnostic utilities and run some of those to see if there are any bad sectors on your drive causing it to stumble. It could be hardware related. Good news is that 300GB hard drives are very cheap...
Wow. Talk about pulling an answer out of... somewhere... :D
It depends on what you are running - if you are doing games that take advantage of the multi-core (like Supreme Commander), you will gain more than other games that dont, especially if there is a significant speed difference, you might be at the same level or even lose FPS.
There is no way to INTELLIGENTLY answer your question without more details as to what games you are talking about, what resoluition you are gaming at, and some comparison benchmarks you can look at.
Not much difference. Assuming your motherboard will support the memory at the higher speed, 533 to 677 is not much of an upgrade, especially since RAM is unlikely the performance bottleneck in yours (or anyone else's) system.
On the other question, I assume you meant 4 x 1GB vs 2 x 2GB? If that is the case, if they are the same speed and running dual channel, there should be no difference. 2 x 2GB is better since it leaves to free slots in case you wanted to go 8GB at some point, but since that is unlikely, get the cheapest fastest memory combo you can.
Changes are that at some point in the next 3 years, you will want to upgrade the video card. Having the OPTION of doing SLI with a 2nd 8800GTX (which should be cheaper in 1 year or 2) is good, but chances are you will be able to get a newer generation card for just a little more money, better performance, less heat and power usage, etc.
When I bought my XPS Gen2 4 years ago, it came with a ATI 9800. I upgraded to a X800 and later to a X1950Pro over a period of 4 years, and it still holds its own (P4EE 3.2GHz.) The 8800GTX is a very powerful card, and at 1680x1050 you are not going to be pushing it hard for a long while...
You need to follow basic troubleshooting 101 - its hard to say from your post, but if you have that many computers and network connections, do it by process of elimination - take a computer you know works, and plug it into where the one that is not working is plugged - if it works, its not the plug or the cable. If it doesnt, it could be the plug or the cable - try a different cable. It could be the wall plug, the cable, or the network card.
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