Well the GTX 1060 is now officially a thing. $250 for a 6GB card, or $300 for Founder's Edition, and it's based on GP106. It comes out on the 19th.
[QUOTE=DrTaxi;50663542]In my experience, setting up hardware RAID is pretty easy.
If you've an i7 and (as you say) no idea what you're doing, then I'm guessing you don't actually [I]have[/I] a hardware RAID controller though, just [url=http://skrypuch.com/raid/]FakeRAID[/url] (which is a terrible idea). So if the hypervisor you're planning to install supports it, use software RAID, if not, you'll either have to buy a controller ($$$) or live without RAID for the hypervisor itself and create disk images on all your drives and set up software RAID [I]inside[/I] the virtual machines.[/QUOTE]
we're gonna have to get one, i don't think fake raid is a good idea
nor do i know what os to use to handle all this
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;50663529]So I finally found an acceptable price for some DDR3.
Now I can rip that 8GB stick out of my fileserver and put it back in my system with this other 8GB stick thats coming in the mail hopefully by Monday or Tuesday.
It will feel great to go back to 16GB.[/QUOTE]
I was surprised how cheap DDR4 has gotten when I was browsing yesterday. 3ghz 4x8GB is like 150
[editline]7th July 2016[/editline]
So if people were curious, Arq 5 and ACD is still going strong. Been maxing my connection 24/7 for weeks now. I even had to run a netlimiter to 1MB/s so I could still use my internet decently well and play games.
I'm pushing 80-90 GB per day. So per month I'm looking at uploading 2.5TB per month easily.
Very impressed with the software.
[QUOTE=Giraffen93;50663807]we're gonna have to get one, i don't think fake raid is a good idea
nor do i know what os to use to handle all this[/QUOTE]
[I]Software[/I] RAID, which is different from "fake" RAID, is just fine if your (host) OS supports it. Regular Linux distributions (that you can throw Xen or KVM on) do, as does XenServer, ESXi and Windows don't.
(Well, it is technically possible to run Windows on a software RAID, but Microsoft recommends against it)
RAID controllers are expensive, I wouldn't get one if you don't actually [I]need[/I] it.
...not that I'd base my choice of hypervisor solely on this.
I hope MS really heavily expands on Storage Spaces. Having a great new software RAID like solution on windows would be nice. It's been really dodgy for a long time.
[QUOTE=Makol;50663790]Well the GTX 1060 is now officially a thing. $250 for a 6GB card, or $300 for Founder's Edition, and it's based on GP106. It comes out on the 19th.[/QUOTE]
I'll believe "better than 980" when I see it
[QUOTE=chipsnapper2;50664276]I'll believe "better than 980" when I see it[/QUOTE]
Is that what Nvidia is claiming? I only saw the spec sheet and pricing.
[QUOTE=Makol;50664499]Is that what Nvidia is claiming? I only saw the spec sheet and pricing.[/QUOTE]
Not better than, but matching performance.
[img]http://images.anandtech.com/doci/10474/GTX980_575px.jpg[/img]
I certainly hope it's true.
[QUOTE=wingless;50664510]Not better than, but matching performance.
[img]http://images.anandtech.com/doci/10474/GTX980_575px.jpg[/img]
I certainly hope it's true.[/QUOTE]
So the GTX980 has the power of a GTX980?
[QUOTE=Brt5470;50664523]So the GTX980 has the power of a GTX980?[/QUOTE]
One would hope!
(I grabbed that image from the [url=http://www.anandtech.com/show/10474/nvidia-announces-geforce-gtx-1060-july-19]Anandtech[/url] announcement of the 1060.)
Someone give me a small loan of $250 and I'll see if it's true.
Well with how Nshitia keep degrading performance of their cards all the time IT'S PROBABLY NOT THE SAME ANYMORE
#GoAMD #GoRed #PCIeSpecPCIeSchpec
[QUOTE=Brt5470;50663971]I was surprised how cheap DDR4 has gotten when I was browsing yesterday. 3ghz 4x8GB is like 150[/QUOTE]
Which can only mean bad things for DDR3 owners going forward, if my experiences with the price of DDR2 RAM once it had been superseded are anything to go by. This system maybe on it's way out though, so its not too much of a burden at this point.
[QUOTE=Brt5470;50664550]Well with how Nshitia keep degrading performance of their cards all the time IT'S PROBABLY NOT THE SAME ANYMORE
#GoAMD #GoRed #PCIeSpecPCIeSchpec[/QUOTE]
#TeamRed
[QUOTE=Makol;50664562]#TeamRed[/QUOTE]
Better dead than red? I feel like it's the next logical response
Rip AMD and Nintendo.
[QUOTE=Makol;50664596]Rip AMD and Nintendo.[/QUOTE]
Nintendo changed their logo to be silver at some point if memory serves me right, so it doesn't count.
[QUOTE=Makol;50664640]They went back to red a while ago.[/QUOTE]
Shows how long I've been out of the game, I haven't owned any of their current hardware since 2012 and haven't really paid attention to them since 2010.
Nintenbot & Xbot 4 lyfe
Alright here's a fucking question though, why is my GTX 770M only half as performant as a fucking GTX 840M according to 3D Mark? Furthermore, why is it way less performant than a Radeon HD 7970M from the same era?
I feel so cheated
Do you mean the GTX 850M? Because the GT 840M is slower than the GT 750M
[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;50664927]Alright here's a fucking question though, why is my GTX 770M only half as performant as a fucking GTX 840M according to 3D Mark? Furthermore, why is it way less performant than a Radeon HD 7970M from the same era?
I feel so cheated[/QUOTE]
Is your power setting set to high performance?
Hopefully my companies national IT department doesn't shit the bed again today. They always push out updates to our systems in the middle of the work week....even though every. Single. Time. Everything breaks. The entire company yeterday couldn't work for almost 6 hours. Luckily, being on the west coast, by the time we got to work everything had been down for several hours already. Turned an easy, short day into a late night.
[QUOTE=Makol;50664596]Rip AMD and Nintendo.[/QUOTE]
Why? Because they're releasing a card that supposedly matches the performance of the 960 when the 480 beats it while being $50-100 cheaper?
[editline]7th July 2016[/editline]
[url]https://www.techpowerup.com/223913/amd-retail-radeon-rx-480-4gb-to-8gb-memory-unlock-mod-works-we-benchmarked[/url]
lmao
[editline]7th July 2016[/editline]
you were supposed to be the good guys, amd, come on
[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;50665182]Why? Because they're releasing a card that supposedly matches the performance of the 960 when the 480 beats it while being $50-100 cheaper?[/QUOTE]
I wasn't being serious. Me throwing in Nintendo should have made that a bit obvious.
And 960? Nvidia is comparing it to a 980, a card the 480 does not beat.
[QUOTE=Makol;50665263]I wasn't being serious. Me throwing in Nintendo should have made that a bit obvious.
And 960? Nvidia is comparing it to a 980, a card the 480 does not beat.[/QUOTE]
Oops, I meant the 970 and got mixed up. Also on modern APIs the 480 occasionally matches or beats the 980.
Got any links to those benchmarks? Haven't seen that anywhere.
[QUOTE=DrTaxi;50664071][I]Software[/I] RAID, which is different from "fake" RAID, is just fine if your (host) OS supports it. Regular Linux distributions (that you can throw Xen or KVM on) do, as does XenServer, ESXi and Windows don't.
(Well, it is technically possible to run Windows on a software RAID, but Microsoft recommends against it)
RAID controllers are expensive, I wouldn't get one if you don't actually [I]need[/I] it.
...not that I'd base my choice of hypervisor solely on this.[/QUOTE]
It's gotta be reliable. I have no idea what I'm doing
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