My new computer

[btimbit]

Processors Intel® Core™ i7 860 Quad Core 2.8GHz (8MB Cache)
Memory 12GB Dual Channel DDR3 at 1333MHz
Video Cards CrossfireX™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5670, 1GB GDDR5
Hard Drive 500GB - SATA-II, 3Gb/s, 7,200RPM, 16MB Cache HDD
Operating Systems Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64bit, English
Optical Drive 24X CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW) w/double layer write capability
Sound Card Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio

Not too shabby methinks

[takkyu]

Specs look pretty slick, congrats.

[taemo]

sick!

why not go with an SDD OS drive though?

[n1zm0]

kk, now come join us on BFBC2

[scat19]

Well mine was top of the line in 2006 so there.

[Wraith]

Too much ram, not enough video card imo. Unless it's not for gaming.

[Grogador]

Originally posted by taemo
sick!

why not go with an SDD OS drive though?

Your storage will definitely be the bottleneck here, although with 12GB RAM not for long An SSD drive for the OS/apps would make your Windoze fly. Grab another 500GB drive and stripe it (RAID 0) with your existing one, which gives you 1TB of space for games and will make it mui rapido as well!

[mdeluxe]

Originally posted by btimbit
Processors Intel® Core™ i7 860 Quad Core 2.8GHz (8MB Cache)
Memory 12GB Dual Channel DDR3 at 1333MHz
Video Cards CrossfireX™ ATI Radeon™ HD 5670, 1GB GDDR5
Hard Drive 500GB - SATA-II, 3Gb/s, 7,200RPM, 16MB Cache HDD
Operating Systems Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64bit, English
Optical Drive 24X CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW) w/double layer write capability
Sound Card Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio

Not too shabby methinks

12GB RAM WOWzers!

[btimbit]

Originally posted by Grogador


Your storage will definitely be the bottleneck here, although with 12GB RAM not for long An SSD drive for the OS/apps would make your Windoze fly. Grab another 500GB drive and stripe it (RAID 0) with your existing one, which gives you 1TB of space for games and will make it mui rapido as well!

Grabbing another 500GB drive was something I intended to do, but what are the benefits of striping it? RAID 0 or RAID 1?

[Grogador]

If you stripe (RAID 0) two 500GB disks, you'll get 1000GB of very fast (read and write) storage, however when one of the disks eventually fails (all disks fail) you lose all 1000GB of data.

If you mirror (RAID 1) two 500GB disks, you'll get 500GB of space with basically the same performance as a single drive. The data is "safe" because it's duplicated across two drives, however RAID is not meant to replace backups! It doesn't protect you against viruses, data corruption, user error, fires, whatever. The purpose of a mirrored array is to eliminate/decrease downtime due to hardware failure. So instead of going to pick up your offsite backups and spending hours copying back from slow tape or DVDR or even hard drives, you just pop another drive into your RAID array and let it rebuild the mirror in the background while your machine chugs along uninterrupted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID#Standard_levels
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID#RA...ot_data_backup

[RMS]

Originally posted by Grogador
If you stripe (RAID 0) two 500GB disks, you'll get 1000GB of very fast (read and write) storage, however when one of the disks eventually fails (all disks fail) you lose all 1000GB of data.

If you mirror (RAID 1) two 500GB disks, you'll get 500GB of space with basically the same performance as a single drive. The data is "safe" because it's duplicated across two drives, however RAID is not meant to replace backups! It doesn't protect you against viruses, data corruption, user error, fires, whatever. The purpose of a mirrored array is to eliminate/decrease downtime due to hardware failure. So instead of going to pick up your offsite backups and spending hours copying back from slow tape or DVDR or even hard drives, you just pop another drive into your RAID array and let it rebuild the mirror in the background while your machine chugs along uninterrupted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID#Standard_levels
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID#RA...ot_data_backup

QFT + 8 x 500GB Raid 0 is what I had and a drive failed after like 8 months so I consider myself lucky