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That's the obvious one. :P

And I was basically decided to buy that configuration ... :) Now you guys gave me all new things to think about. :) Especially SAS drives. They really seem to outperform the VelociRaptors especially working with databases. So the only downside of SAS drives is that they're not that special for...

Do you know of any articles and/or charts comparing Xeons to regular CPUs? I've been googling for it for the past hour, but can't find anything really useful. Haven't really thought before about this option, so I need to at least check it now ...

As I mentioned, it's not only databases, also heavy multi-tasking is involved. Example what I'm usually running/doing at the same time: - DB software importing data every minute or so - several running software that use that DB data and then calculate, show things - several other programs...

The problem is that I really need VRaptors' speed. That's a very important thing. That's also one of the problems with RAID5. Supposedly especially small writes are very slow (and I'll be having lots of small writes, every minute or so).

Hmmm, is hardware RAID card needed with this motherboard for RAID 5? (it supports RAID 0, 1, 10 & 5 I think; it doesn't support 6 though) So, your suggestion is having 3 or 4 VRaptors (or some other hard-drives?) and running RAID 5 for example?

Mostly PostgreSQL. And yeah, I'll probably overclock it a lil' bit. ;) First I didn't plan to, but with all the OC features on this board it would be a sin not to. :P I'll be running 2 x 30" on it and although most todays cards should be able to run it, I just think it's wiser not to get a...

Update: I'll probably order this system tomorow: Case: Antec P182 Power Supply: Corsair HX620 Motherboard: ASUS P6T Deluxe CPU: i7 - 940 Ram: Corsair DDR3 1600 MHz 12GB Hard-drive(s): 2 x VelociRaptor Graphics card: Gigabyte GeForce 9600 GT 1GB (the best one with passive cooling I...

Sadly I pretty much had to rule P6T6 out at the beginning as it doesn't seem to be available here for now (I'm from Slovenia), so I would have to wait a week or 2 to get it from abroad. Anyway, thanks, will grab P6T Deluxe as I'm able to get it in a day ...

Thanks! There's one more thing to have in mind, though. I'm pretty sure I won't be doing anything involving high graphics demand. I'm planning of putting only an average graphics card in it, probably passive cooled GeForce 9600 GT. Eventually I might have 3 LCDs connected (30"+30"+21"), so...

Thanks. Yeah, when I was checking specifications R2E really seemed the odd one out. So now I need to choose between the other 2. :)

Hmmm, how to explain. Mostly I'll be dealing with databases up to 100GBs that'll contain all sorts of data which will quite often be "filtered" (meaning I'll select certain parameters then the software will find all the data from whole database that suit those parameters) ... I'll also be...

Hi, I'm wondering what are key differences in these 3 motherboards - ASUS P6T Deluxe, ASUS Rampage II Extreme & ASUS P6T WS Professional. I checked specifications and while there are differences, mostly they seem only "superficial". 1 thing that got my attention are additional storage...

Yeah, that's why there's 2 VelociRaptors. :) I plan on having them in RAID 1. Haven't really thought about SAS SCSI drives. Will start now. :)

Hi everyone, haven't been here for a long while, even forgot my previous account, but I'm in urgent need of a PC upgrade, which will mostly be used for heavy multi-tasking & huge databases stuff ... As of now, the system looks like this: Decided: Case: Antec P182 (supposedly it's an...