[QUOTE=drummerundrcovr;27484641]Yes I know of the bottlenecks and conflicts that can occur on the PCI bus; The card's by itself. My raid card looks like this though
[img_thumb]http://pchistory.ru/wp-content/uploads/sd-sil680-raid.jpg[/img_thumb]
The reviewer of that article was able to reach over 100MB/s on sequential writes with 3 & 4 way raid0 arrays. I'm still stuck around the 50's :saddowns: Also how is this a software raid? the card has it's own bios and that's the only place where you can configure raids. unless maybe it still puts the load on the cpu....
:crying:[/QUOTE]
Oh I was comparing the read speeds, his max read was 80MB/s while yours looked like it maxed out at about 70MB/s. To be honest that review might not be the best example for a couple of reasons. Biggest one is that the card he's using isn't 100% identical to the one you have its just extremely similar. Second is the reviewer didn't say what software he was using for those sequential read/write tests and he got some weird results too (write faster than read?? :crossarms:) but its the only one I could find with benchmarks.
About the hardware/software RAID thing it can be a little confusing because it is technically hardware, but its not the hardware doing the work. The term is a bit incorrect and loosely used. While you have the hardware interface in the system its the driver software that handles the data, not a dedicated CPU with its own cache and whatnot. I suppose a more correct term is "host-based RAID" but I've heard it referred to as both terms.
[QUOTE=drummerundrcovr;27486221]'m just using common sense, but games are still scaling pretty well with dual-core cpu's. I'd like to think it'd be at least another year/year1/2 before q9000's/amd 900's will be pressed to the limitou can overclock if you need to too...
I'd say just get an ssd, they're not that bad with prices right?[/QUOTE]
Well I find myself dropping below 80 FPS in games like L4D and that bothers me because I have a 120 Hz monitor and it also feels less responsive and jumpy at around that framerate. In GTA IV I really only have a constant framerate of around 30 with everything maxed out at 1920x1080, often dipping below 30 and even 20 sometimes. My CPU is overclocked by the way, to 3.6 GHz.
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I think I may just get the SSD now then, because a 2400/2500 seems to be more than enough for my needs.
didn't you just get a gtx 570? why are you getting such low fps...
Probably AA is just jacked up in L4D
As for GTA IV it's a normal framerate for the processor I believe.
[QUOTE=drummerundrcovr;27487176]didn't you just get a gtx 570? why are you getting such low fps...[/QUOTE]
Q9400, that's why I said that. My friend with a GTX 470 and i7 920 never drops below 100 at 2048x1152 with max everything.
[editline]17th January 2011[/editline]
Yes I have a 570 if I didn't make that clear.
Two 1TB WD Blacks in Raid 0.
[img]http://grantgarvey.com/uploads/raid-0.png[/img]
Kind of a big spread between min and max huh? Not that I really know what I'm looking at. My average looks good at least.
[QUOTE=blackdenton;27491345]Two 1TB WD Blacks in Raid 0.
[img_thumb]http://grantgarvey.com/uploads/raid-0.png[/img_thumb]
Kind of a big spread between min and max huh? Not that I really know what I'm looking at. My average looks good at least.[/QUOTE]
Thats good all around scores, the real min is around 100 MB/s
[QUOTE=Odellus;27486866]Well I find myself dropping below 80 FPS in games like L4D and that bothers me because I have a 120 Hz monitor and it also feels less responsive and jumpy at around that framerate. In GTA IV I really only have a constant framerate of around 30 with everything maxed out at 1920x1080, often dipping below 30 and even 20 sometimes. My CPU is overclocked by the way, to 3.6 GHz.
[editline]17th January 2011[/editline]
I think I may just get the SSD now then, because a 2400/2500 seems to be more than enough for my needs.[/QUOTE]
Were you thinking of getting a 2600K?
Quite a big difference compared to my first benchmark.
[img]http://files.rewindstudios.com/Screencaps/60GB-Vertex-2E-HD-Tune-Benchmark2.png[/img]
Anyways, probably gonna get SB and an SSD when I get money.
Did a test on my 2nd Pc with nothing running apart from normal background stuff.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/MXNSS.png[/IMG]
:saddowns:
[QUOTE=Odellus;27488267]Q9400, that's why I said that. My friend with a GTX 470 and i7 920 never drops below 100 at 2048x1152 with max everything.
[editline]17th January 2011[/editline]
Yes I have a 570 if I didn't make that clear.[/QUOTE]
I have a Q9400 [b]AND[/b] a 9800 gt.:saddowns:
[QUOTE=raceingdemon;27503293]I have a Q9400 [b]AND[/b] a 9800 gt.:saddowns:[/QUOTE]
I also have a 9800 GT just lying around. Want it?
[QUOTE=Odellus;27503455]I also have a 9800 GT just lying around. Want it?[/QUOTE]
I have a old broken one but I have no sli bridge.
[editline]18th January 2011[/editline]
also my psu sucks ass
OS drive:
[img]http://ahb.me/1w5B[/img][img]http://ahb.me/1w5C[/img]
Data drive (Spinpoint F3):
[img]http://ahb.me/1w5L[/img]
Couldn't run the File Benchmark for some reason.
[QUOTE=raceingdemon;27503623]I have a old broken one but I have no sli bridge.
[editline]18th January 2011[/editline]
also my psu sucks ass[/QUOTE]
If you get a new PSU, contact me. Chances are it'll just be sitting in its box months from now waiting to be thrown away.
[editline]18th January 2011[/editline]
If you want it, that is.
[QUOTE=Odellus;27503679]If you get a new PSU, contact me. Chances are it'll just be sitting in its box months from now waiting to be thrown away.
[editline]18th January 2011[/editline]
If you want it, that is.[/QUOTE]
Throw it away? Why not just try to sell it cheap?
[QUOTE=thf;27504121]Throw it away? Why not just try to sell it cheap?[/QUOTE]
Because I live in West Virginia and I'm not really comfortable selling it online to any random person, plus, getting maybe $40 from it isn't really worth the hassle.
WDC WD32 00AAJS-22L7A
[IMG]http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/5014/wdcj.png[/IMG]
Samsung Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ
[IMG]http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/9468/smsng.png[/IMG]
And just for fun I created a datadisk on my Corsair XMS3 2x2GB DDR3 Dual channel memory and ran a disk test.
[IMG]http://img573.imageshack.us/img573/2273/mmry.png[/IMG]
:byodood:
This makes me want to find all my old DDR memory & mobos. 2gb ramdisk for games at a LAN party... :horse:
[editline]18th January 2011[/editline]
and I have tons of pc133 ram, - 1.06GB/s.
Netbook:
[img]http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/3184/18january20111139.png[/img]
Hmm? Why is it so slow then...
[img]http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/8503/18january20111138.png[/img]
Uhh...
[img]http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/6867/18january20111137.png[/img]
I guess smashing in buttons and slamming my netbook because of it's shitty touchpad only makes it worse. I need to calm down.
[img]http://imgkk.com/i/43dx.png[/img]
get this: it's a single mechanical drive
also 15.4 ms access time and 128.7 MB/s burst
Yeah, Samsung F3s tend to clock 100+ MB average.
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v738/drdevin/Capture.png[/IMG]
My OCZ Vertex 2
[QUOTE=cdlink14;27506083]And just for fun I created a datadisk on my Corsair XMS3 2x2GB DDR3 Dual channel memory and ran a disk test.
[img_thumb]http://img573.imageshack.us/img573/2273/mmry.png[/img_thumb][/QUOTE]
I know I'm late, but this reminds me of the Gigabyte i-RAM
[url]https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/I-RAM[/url]
Why the hell don't they make a version using DDR2 or DDR3 (whichever is cheaper per GB) ram and SATA3 6Gbit/s.
And more slots for RAM blocks.
My Vertex 2 that the OS and a few programs like browsers run off. Quite wacky results.
[img]http://i.cubeupload.com/mdAdmX.png[/img]
And my RAID 0 array of two 1.5TB drives that I just defragged yesterday. I have no fucking idea what happened here.
[img]http://i.cubeupload.com/nU8imn.png[/img]
