Recent content by mouawad

For Essence money in Europe you're better of buying an external DAC if music is more important to you, even half decent ones like the Essence are poor cousins to a mid ranged DAC. But you seem to be getting it alot cheaper than us so .....

I don't think there's been an EVGA board released w/out some decent compatibility problems, so this one might be a benchers dream but i've been burned on their previous boards and we all remember 680i. Not to mention it's meant to be another hot running board but then it is an EVGA so thats to...

9/10 ppl who buy a classified don't need one for their kind of clocks, and vanilla guerrilla when was the last time you used a gigabyte board? .....about 5 years ago by the sounds of it. OP unless you're a LN2/DI'er or the fancy color scheme is worth another £80-100 the GB will do everything an...

you can flash them with LSI firmwares also, and obviously use the drivers too.

my perc 5/i is running in a 4x electrical slot just fine, just don't put it into a 1x electrical slot ....even though it should give enough bandwidth the card performance suffers alot.

it's easier to just ignore the guys who clearly have no idea :o

microstuttering is gone on 48xx series

good stuff but it's even better when you strap a 120mm to them :cool: can't fit S1+120mm with Crossfire you say??? *cough* poor 3d06 score but we know to expect that ;)

i wouldn't be jumping on a 1TB F1 drive right now, seems to be quite a few bad drives around. the GP will be more quiet, run colder and i'd say more reliable also...it's also slower due to being a 5.4K rpm drive but in real terms it's no slouch either.

you could also look at grabbing a perc 5/i off ebay, they're hardware cards with IOP333 chip that are shipped with Dell servers.....they're actually LSI 8408E SAS cards. won't be as fast as an areca but it also costs about 1/10th the price and still gives solid reads/writes in raid 5...

reviews i've seen of the 7200.11 elsewhere are the same old seagate story, fast STR and average real world results. OP - i don't know why you dislike WD their RE2 1TB GP drives are great for media servers and alot cheaper than comparable 1TB drives, if it's really for storage speed shouldn't...

similar dilemma as i was going to grab a few 1tb RE-2 WD Green Power drives but after seeing the price of the 750gb F1 slashed i'm in 2 minds. this is for a raid 5 server so speed really isn't the only factor which is why i was so keen on the WD GP's but gee the price/gb on the samsung is...

they aren't storage drives? thank you for pointing that out :) the latest 7200rpm drives aren't catching up, they've taken over already in most areas ....which is why it isn't a pointless argument to compare cost/GB verus a Raptor anymore - and unless they increase the platter size how do you...

for the price & noise of raptors i think they've had their day now with 250/320gb platter drives available. they need to increase the areal density on them, atm they're just poor value for money in my eyes ...they're not even the fastest drives for map loading anymore but still cost an arm...

you'd be better off running a linux server and doing software raid under that than spending hundreds on a raid card with no XOR processor. better performance and best of all it's free.