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I finally managed to buy a new hard drive (Western Digital JB400 40 Gb 8Mb cache) for about 62 euros and tommorow morning I'll have to buy a new CD-ROM drive too, as the old one also droped dead. There is a saying here that a misfortune never comes alone.

I bought a AMD Athlon 2400 yesterday. It was only 85 bucks from Fry's.

Comosicus wrote:I finally managed to buy a new hard drive (Western Digital JB400 40 Gb 8Mb cache) for about 62 euros and tommorow morning I'll have to buy a new CD-ROM drive too, as the old one also droped dead. There is a saying here that a misfortune never comes alone.

Replace the CD drive with a DVD drive. Practically no price difference, but a great increase in the media you can read. Or by a CD/DVD writer combo.

Even if you never ever intend to watch DVDs on your computer, there's still the possibility that someday in the distant future they may finally start putting more software onto DVDs, negating the need for swapping CDs during install (or worse, during gameplay).

Uraniun235 wrote:Even if you never ever intend to watch DVDs on your computer, there's still the possibility that someday in the distant future they may finally start putting more software onto DVDs, negating the need for swapping CDs during install (or worse, during gameplay).

Well then, that corny saying "The future is now" comes to mind.

They are already releasing new 4-5 CD games on 1 DVD, just DVD drive adoption rates are so damn poor in the USA, games are released on +5 cds instead of offering it as a single DVD.

Comosicus wrote:There is a saying here that a misfortune never comes alone.

We have that saying too..."Misery loves company."

The CD-ROM was not on my upgrade list, as I intended to get a CD-RW or a combo. That was all I could afford right now.

And I plan to upgrade in time the rest of the system (it's really old) and getting a combo or a CD-RW will come in discussion. But I have to save more to achieve that.

Uraniun235 wrote:Even if you never ever intend to watch DVDs on your computer, there's still the possibility that someday in the distant future they may finally start putting more software onto DVDs, negating the need for swapping CDs during install (or worse, during gameplay).

Also considering the low pricees of DVD today it is better to buy DVD drives instead of CD drive.