Here she is...

F

[FX]Roman

Gawd
Joined
Apr 16, 2002
Messages
819
 
Ahh, really... I was thinking of "striping."

What do you think of the system, thus far?
 
you are aware the nForce 4 doesnt support DDR 2 right? Cause i see a huge headache in the making with that RAM.
 
That'd work fine, are you gonna do any overclocking? if not definetly try to find some ram rate at 2-2-2-5. If you are, and those Corsairs are TCCD then your in great shape, but don't get too wraped up in the expensive ram for A64, not much diference between 2-2-2-5 @ 200mhz and 3-3-3-8 @ 250.
 
Hmmm, I haven't done a tonne of research on RAM... What would be a better bet?

Corsair TWINX1024-3200 (2x 512MB DDR400 Matched Pair, CAS 3-3-3-8) 209 Bucks

G.Skill Extreme Series F1-3200BWU2-1GBGH (2x 512MB DDR400 Matched Pair, CAS 2-2-2-5)
225 Bucks
 
That GSKill is Winbond UTT chips, very highend stuff, with the DFI being able to pump up the volts like it can, its a match made in heaven, expensive match, but a very good one. RAM is all about what you want to spend. I have OCZ PC 3200 GOLD which is Winbond BH5 and nabbed it for $150US , very good stuff. Truth be told there isn't a ton of difference between the Corsair Value ram and Winbond UTT at stock speeds, but for overclocking and max performance, that GSKILL is top quality stuff.
 
I have had nothing but luck with my OCZ ram. Great OC but I cant maintain it thanks to my stock cooler. I hit 3.6 with little problem (3.0 p4c).
 
[FX]Roman said:
Ahh, really... I was thinking of "striping."
Click to expand...

You should really think about it before you set up a RAID-0 array. I'm assuming that you know how it works, eh? Half of your data is written to one drive and half is written to the other..yeah, well, what if one of the drives fails? Now you only have 50% of all your files. They ain't gonna work any more.

If you do set up your drives in a striped array, you need to be EXTRA sure to make backups of your important files to a CD/DVD or different computer.
 
NickN said:
You should really think about it before you set up a RAID-0 array. I'm assuming that you know how it works, eh? Half of your data is written to one drive and half is written to the other..yeah, well, what if one of the drives fails? Now you only have 50% of all your files. They ain't gonna work any more.

If you do set up your drives in a striped array, you need to be EXTRA sure to make backups of your important files to a CD/DVD or different computer.
Click to expand...

better than losing 100%
 
bk12321 said:
better than losing 100%
Click to expand...

Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear.

In RAID 0, it isn't "one file for drive A, one file for drive B". Little chunks of a SINGLE file are written to each drive. If one of the drives goes out, then each of your files is going to have chunks missing from it. Hence, the file will be corrupted. If one drive in a RAID-0 goes out, you DO lose 100% of your data.
 
Thats why you should usually have a backup drive behind the two RAID drives in such a situation...

Time to ORDER!
 
I've got it all in my shopping cart... Still thinking about HDDs...

Which should I go for...

Western Digital Raptor 36GB - 10000RPM, 8MB Cache, SATA150 (OEM) $149.00

or....

Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 10 200GB - 7200RPM, 16MB Cache, SATA150 (OEM) $129.95

Would it be a lot better to get the extra speed... I've heard HDDs are quite the bottlenecks...
 
Maxtor. easy answer there. the 36 raptor isn't near the performance you'd think, its not very dense, to where the maxtor is very dense and has a huge buffer, definetly the maxtor IMO.
 
hmmm............gotta think that its still a better buy than 36 gig raptor (they just aren't that good, mostly market hype). I'm doing some googling, its still a 16mb NCQ just like the Maxline so i gotta think they perform very similarly.
 
MrMitch said:
you are aware the nForce 4 doesnt support DDR 2 right? Cause i see a huge headache in the making with that RAM.
Click to expand...

What does the chipset have to do with the memory compatibility?
 
robberbaron said:
What does the chipset have to do with the memory compatibility?
Click to expand...
I knew you or eclipse would bust me on that, was in a hurry to get it out before he ordered, since he seemed ready to pull the trigger. Its all about the onboard memory controller. My fault for having the right idea, but being generally wrong :) .
 
no, the chipset doesn't have the memory controller, its intergrated to the CPU now. Your fine, good to go. The AMD ATHLON 64 doesn't support DDR2, therefore naturally the nforce4 for AMD doesnt. My fault for not wording it right.
 
MrMitch said:
I knew you or eclipse would bust me on that, was in a hurry to get it out before he ordered, since he seemed ready to pull the trigger. Its all about the onboard memory controller. My fault for having the right idea, but being generally wrong :) .
Click to expand...


Are we that bad? :(
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top