is it worth raiding?

kgls13349

kgls13349

kgls13349

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Hello,
I have been thinking about buying a second WD 74gb rapter and setting it up in raid 0 with my existing one to speed up loading, but im not sure whether it is worth the cost,

My spec:
Asus A8N-SLi Premium
Athlon 64 x2 4400+
1gb Geil PC3200
Geforve 7800gt

I dont really do all that much gaming really, but when i do play my games i hate waiting for them to load, Does raiding drives really give any noticable performance gains in games? or on day2day HDD accessing? i already have a server which i use to regularly back data up so im not bothered about data redundancy

Thanks for any comments :)
 
Thanks for the replys guys,
I guess i will ditch the idea of raiding two raptors, like i said i dont do any hardcore gaming, this machine spends most of its time running office apps and playing music/movies so i wasnt overly sure whether raiding would be worth it

Toytown said:
In fact going of the specs of your machine above, i cant believe you dont have 2GB of memory (or at least 1.5GB), i had to reduce the textures in BF2 and some other quality settings when my memory was getting replaced (and i only had 1GB) because the swapping of virtual memory on the harddrive was killing its performance in game.
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Well i dont think i have any problems only having 1gb, but then again ive never had more than 1gb so i dont spose i would notice any difference :D
anyway doesnt windows still use the paging file regardless of how much ram u have? obviously i know the more ram the better but i didnt think just doubling up from 1gb to 2 would make a huge difference, acording to windows task manager my memory nearly always has over 700mb free all the time

(Dont spose anyone could recomend a Good 2gb DDR400 Set?)
 
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Hmm, ive been playing fear on my old machine (Athlon XP 2000+, 6600GT AGP Graphics, 1gb ram) and it seemed fine to me, then again it proberlly wasnt anywhere near as good graphics or performance as it should have been, i have to admit i havnt tried fear on this computer yet.

I was thining of getting 2gb of ram a while ago but my college tutors (im studying ICT at college ) convinced me 1gb was enough, at the time i just wanted to have bragging rights of having the most memory in the class lol
 
Yeah well i should know better than listen to anything my tutors say, acording to one of them you can do gigabit ethernet with cat4 cabling, i tried not to laugh when he said that lol

and then there was the time when one of my other tutors had an argument over how many instuctions a CPU can do at a time, he swore blind even an dual core CPU could only do one instruction at a time :rolleyes: makes me wonder whos teaching who lol
 
i have looked at the spec of the 150gb raptor and somehow it is very slightly faster than its brothers, not sure why that is

Think ill upgrade my ram, then get an 150gb rapter, that should speed things up a bit

Thanks for the help ppl :):)
 
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