Review my future PC purchase!

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2005-11-07 11:48pm

Sigh, even I think twin 7800GTXs is overkill. I mean, I simply cannot slow my single card down on any game I have (except fear, but that never goes below 30fps.) All my games are basically CPU limited, especially BF2.
How are you affording all of this, Kamikaze?

Kamakazie Sith · Post by **Kamakazie Sith** » 2005-11-07 11:56pm

Captain tycho wrote:Sigh, even I think twin 7800GTXs is overkill. I mean, I simply cannot slow my single card down on any game I have (except fear, but that never goes below 30fps.) All my games are basically CPU limited, especially BF2.
How are you affording all of this, Kamikaze?

Paid off my car, and I felt strange being debt free. LOL

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2005-11-08 12:23am

InnocentBystander wrote:Why cheap out with a 7200 rpm HD? If you're going nuts, you might as well grab a 10,000 rpm HD, maybe even raid it

RAID-0 provides minimal performance advantages in real-world applications. It looks nice for ZOMG HUGE SEQUENTIAL FILE ACCESS, but frankly unless you're doing some heavy audio/video editing you're not going to see an appreciable performance jump with loading games or apps in general.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2005-11-08 12:25am

For cash/size ratio, the 250GB is a better buy, but they are both good hard drives.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2005-11-08 09:07am

Uraniun235 wrote:RAID-0 provides minimal performance advantages in real-world applications. It looks nice for ZOMG HUGE SEQUENTIAL FILE ACCESS, but frankly unless you're doing some heavy audio/video editing you're not going to see an appreciable performance jump with loading games or apps in general.

Clearly he needs hardware-accelerated RAID5 with 15K SCSI drives.