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Which is computer performance NOS.

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tdashmike

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Here is my system specs:

MSI 915P Neo2 Platinum (MS-7028)
P4 LGA775 2.8Ghz @ 3.2Ghz
512MBx2 PC-4200 Kingston ValueRAM
ATI X300 <== Sucks but I don't game that much on PC.
2x36GB WD Raptors RAID-0

I would not consider this a "slow" system. Upgrading ram to a faster timing of more ram will probably not help too much. So what else to upgrade that will make my computer feel a lot faster? Not spending more then $1000. When I say "feel", I mean things like application loading times, compression times, moving files around, and general usage in Windows.

I was thinking about getting a solid state HD. When I switched from a single 7200rpm HD to 2 raptors I could really feel the difference, so I think maybe if I use soild state HD's I will feel another difference.(I really don't want to consider any more drives in my RAID setup or using SCSI)
 
Apart from the video card, as you pointed out, the system is pretty decent. I wouldn't try solid state drives, their interface is too slow and you can only write to them so many times, I think in the region of a million times, which you can easily exceed in one session. I don't see anything that could top the raptors, apart from maybe a dedicated SCSI drive, so in terms of HD speed you cant really go much better.
 
Yeah thats why I want to see if anyone has any ideas. Thanks for the input.

About the solid state HD's. I am looking at one that uses DDR ram, so there is none of that read cycle problem. Also, the sustained read/write is 93 some MB/sec on the drive im looking at, compared to the 80MB/sec average of my Raptors. There are many more pros to the ram based HD.

Mike
 
I dealt with Solid State HD's and depending on which you get that will determine your speed. I had military ones and they were not that fast, but I used some that had 100mb/s throughput with latency of like .2 ms.. Great for swap drives and or OS installs.. 2 Gig ones are pretty cheap as well.
 
tdashmike said:
About the solid state HD's. I am looking at one that uses DDR ram, so there is none of that read cycle problem. Also, the sustained read/write is 93 some MB/sec on the drive im looking at, compared to the 80MB/sec average of my Raptors. There are many more pros to the ram based HD.
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Sorry, I didn't realise that they didn't have the limited number of writes most solid-state drives have. If thats the case, and the speeds are good, and they aren't too expensive, there's no reason why you shouldn't try it.
 
well, when i think of NOS, i think of speed, so i say a fx-55....i wish i had one
 
gamekid: I donna if I get the fx-55 will make me feel that the computer is much faster.

4keatimj: Yeah they are pretty sweet! Expensive though.

Wrench00: The faster one your talking about is about the same one I am looking at. to get 2GB will cost me around $1200 though. Also, did you feel a oerformance difference? Compared to a single 7200rpm drive I am sure you would, but what if compared to my current setup?

Thanks for the replies,
Mike
 
Performance on a Solid State is pretty damn sweet. It may not compare to a Raid 0 combo as far transfer speeds are concerned but the latency is what makes up for that hole. Everything on a Solid state is instantanious access, there is no wait.. Hard to describe but a lot of servers that I had used them as OS Boot Drives. Boot times were negligble.

Btw I was really disapointed in the Raptors 36 gig ones.. I had 4 of them in a raid 10 config and they were outperformed by 4 Seagates 160 gigs... The first raptors are a waste of money I did some benches and found that raptor 74 was as fast as two 36 gigers in certain tasks. The 2nd gen of raptors are true SATA where the 36 gig ones are not.. They are a waste of money imho.
 
I'd probably start trying to optimize the system, i.e. stop services you don't need, clean the registry, etc. The system looks pretty fast as it is. As far as hard drive, I would wait for the NCQ SATA-II drives to come out. Those are supposed to be fairly fast.

FYI, IBM used to make some NCQ drives back in the late 90's that were pretty fast for the day.
 
Wrench00: Thanks for sharing the experience on the SS HD's. I will surely get one if I can. Do you have any information on those drives you used before? About the raptors, I think you are right, I am going to sell them pretty soon.

Buckus: Yeah next time I format windows I am gonna try optomizing it as much as I can. I looked up some reviews and NCQ drives have a pretty big perfomance gain over regular drives, will definately look for one if sticking with spindle drives.

Any more suggestions?
 
Sup 4keat, i am only new to this forum, i have been wanting to become a tech, down here in sydney, for a while now, but u seem to be heaps smarta than me. how did you learn all the info you know??? anywayz man, your new machine sounds like the bomb, i am still running around with a 400Mhz ASUS, with 256mb SD. Have you tweaked your machine to the max yet, cause from the other postas, AMD 64's tweak sweat as.

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NoObLaMeR
 
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