Components for new computer

**SapiensErus** · 01-02-08, 07:24 PM

Originally Posted by WileECyte

Aye. Mury speaks the truth about RAID. The RAID that most motherboards implement does most of its work at the driver-level, which uses up CPU cycles. Any speed benefit you might see in disk performance would be offset by lost CPU cycles.

Originally Posted by Mcstrange

if that lost you then skip it. raid isnt really worth dealing with imho. You want better gaming get a

My roomate and I both have Nvidia chipsets, I have the 590, he has the 680i. he aslo has some fancy schmancy 600 dollar RAID card. We benchmarked both our chipsets running Nvraid on a RAID0 stripe and his nice ass RAID card using two SATA 150 120Gb WD 7200 RPM disks. The results varied very little; all three configurations were nearly twice the speed of a single disk (his fancy card was a bit faster than our chipsets implementation). I am not at my house or I would go ask him for the actual numbers. We also timed (using a stopwatch) map loads of BF2 using one SATA 150 WD 120Gb 7200 disk versus two, and the load time was almost cut in half, as was load time for windows.

As far as these NVraid chipsets go I was astounded by the difference. The reason we tested was because he was arguing that the chipsets RAID was surely implemented poorly and would eat up CPU cycles etc. Now we are both running RAID0 stripes (on our gaming machines anyway) on the NVraid.

I think RAID is well worth it for performance, at least with the only RAID I am experienced with (NVraid on the 590 and 680i chipsets). I am sure that the family of 5x and 6x chipsets from Nvidia all implement RAID similarly. But, if you are not technically inclined enough to bother, installing and dealing with RAID can present a problem. And there can be numerous other problems should you want to migrate your RAID to another system, or if one drive in your array fails, etc.

Sorry to threadjack, I have just had a very different, and quantifiable experience using RAID and wanted to express that fact.

**bryn0202** · 01-02-08, 10:17 PM

Thanks for your input guys. I've ordered the parts and changed the PSU as suggested.

I'll let you know howit works once I've assembled it.

Bry

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Thanks.

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**XxRedxX** · 08-24-10, 07:39 PM

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