Cybermonkey
Member
Registered: 22nd Sep 02
Location: Sydney, Australia
User status: Offline
|
Processor(s): AMD Athlon FX-60 2MB cache
Motherboard(s): nVidia nForce 4 X16
Graphics Card(s): 2 X Gigabyte GeForce 7900GTX in SLI
Memory: 2 X 1GB Corsair PC3500LL PRO DDR
Hard Disk(s): WD Raptor 74GB 10,000RPM SATA
 7900GTX in SLi, are they nuts
13586 marks in 3DMark05
|
PaulW
Member
Registered: 26th Jan 03
Location: Atherton, Greater Manchester
User status: Offline
|
WD RAPTOR drives will slow it down...
2 of the newer 150gb will perform quicker in RAID-0 than what 2 74GB RAPTOR 1's would...
or just go full-hog with a proper SCSI RAID
|
Cybermonkey
Member
Registered: 22nd Sep 02
Location: Sydney, Australia
User status: Offline
|
with 2GB of RAM, i dont think the HDD will affect speed much when it comes to graphic rendering...
|
Bart
Member
Registered: 19th Aug 02
Location: Midsomer Norton, Bristol Avon
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by Cybermonkey
13586 marks in 3DMark05
well, my PC is a fair bit under-rated than that and i also only have a single X1800XT 512mb graphics card and i scored just under 10k for 3dmark 05.
|
Cybermonkey
Member
Registered: 22nd Sep 02
Location: Sydney, Australia
User status: Offline
|
getting over 10k is the tricky bit Bart, as it takes an X1900XT or Geforce 7xxx in SLi to breach 10,000. i would like to see a purchasable computer than can bust the 13k mark other than this one...
|
PaulW
Member
Registered: 26th Jan 03
Location: Atherton, Greater Manchester
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by Cybermonkey
with 2GB of RAM, i dont think the HDD will affect speed much when it comes to graphic rendering...
yes but XP can only manage to use 1 gig of the available ram, I have 2gig in mine, and no matter how much I load up shit on XP, it never uses more than 1gig of physical ram!
|
John
Member
Registered: 30th Jun 03
User status: Offline
|
There is nothing stopping xp from using more than 1gig of physical ram.
|
PaulW
Member
Registered: 26th Jan 03
Location: Atherton, Greater Manchester
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by John
There is nothing stopping xp from using more than 1gig of physical ram.
then why does it refuse to...
linux can use it all fine if need be (using blender to render silly big images)
but xp, whether using 3dsmax, bf2, etc... just never goes above 1gig
|
John
Member
Registered: 30th Jun 03
User status: Offline
|
Its something specific to your install anyway.
There is no reason for xp to only use 1 gig.
|
Bart
Member
Registered: 19th Aug 02
Location: Midsomer Norton, Bristol Avon
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by John
There is nothing stopping xp from using more than 1gig of physical ram.
thats what i thought.
tbh, i can remember seeing something in the bios/registry to allow the use of RAM when your graphics card ram is used up (during gaming).
AGP Apereture rings a bell, but i dont think its that tbh
|
Steve
Premium Member
Registered: 30th Mar 02
Location: Worcestershire Drives: Defender
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by PaulW
WD RAPTOR drives will slow it down...
2 of the newer 150gb will perform quicker in RAID-0 than what 2 74GB RAPTOR 1's would...
or just go full-hog with a proper SCSI RAID
the WD Raptor drives are pretty much equal to the speed of SCSI
|
PaulW
Member
Registered: 26th Jan 03
Location: Atherton, Greater Manchester
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by Steve
quote:
Originally posted by PaulW
WD RAPTOR drives will slow it down...
2 of the newer 150gb will perform quicker in RAID-0 than what 2 74GB RAPTOR 1's would...
or just go full-hog with a proper SCSI RAID
the WD Raptor drives are pretty much equal to the speed of SCSI
still on average 10 to 15% slower in comparison
|
abdus
Member
Registered: 23rd Feb 06
User status: Offline
|
RAM support
Windows NT 4.0: 4 GB
Windows 2000 Professional: 4 GB
Windows 2000 Standard Server: 4 GB
Windows 2000 Advanced Server: 8GB
Windows 2000 Datacenter Server: 32GB
Windows XP Professional: 4 GB
Windows Server 2003 Web Edition: 2 GB
Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition: 4 GB
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition: 32 GB
Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition: 64 GB
[Edited on 13-04-2006 by abdus]
|
Steve
Premium Member
Registered: 30th Mar 02
Location: Worcestershire Drives: Defender
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by PaulW
quote:
Originally posted by Steve
quote:
Originally posted by PaulW
WD RAPTOR drives will slow it down...
2 of the newer 150gb will perform quicker in RAID-0 than what 2 74GB RAPTOR 1's would...
or just go full-hog with a proper SCSI RAID
the WD Raptor drives are pretty much equal to the speed of SCSI
still on average 10 to 15% slower in comparison
not according to direct comparisons of read/write reviews/tests
http://techreport.com/reviews/2003q2/10k-comparo/index.x?pg=1
for example
|
