woot new computer

[michaelpi]

alright well for my birthday i needed a new computer ( i have a dell xps) so my parents jsut ordered the parts and i should have it up by next fryday
here are the parts

cpu amd x2 4600+
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16819103751

dfi lanparty
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16813136014

G.SKILL 2GB ram
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16820231084

Western Digital Raptor X
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16822136011


XFX PV-T71G-UCF7 Geforce 7900GT 256MB (going to put them in sli when the price comes down)
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16814150150

case
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16811144104

psu
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16817121012

g15
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16823126179

g5
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16826104191

il have pics up as soon as i get the parts in

 

[vibrokatana]

hehe looks like a nice system, but I would have gone with raid 5 with 7200rpm drives on a hardware raid.

My cpu has 300mhz over yours and twice as much cache

good luck on your new system.

 

[Tek7 (Legacy)]

Wow. That looks like a seriously nice computer. You should be ready for UT2007 when it comes out.

Hm, which reminds me: I need to start researching upgrades...

 

[vibrokatana]

id wait till just before ut2007 hits, that way you get the most bang for the buck.

 

[michaelpi]

hehe looks like a nice system, but I would have gone with raid 5 with 7200rpm drives on a hardware raid.
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raid 5...um i dont need need a backup on a 2nd hard if aneything id use raid 0

 

[vibrokatana]

raid 5 is great redundancy and speed only disadvantage is that you need 3+ disks

 

[michaelpi]

# RAID-0 is the fastest and most efficient array type but offers no fault-tolerance.
# RAID-1 is the array of choice for performance-critical, fault-tolerant environments. In addition, RAID-1 is the only choice for fault-tolerance if no more than two drives are desired.
# RAID-2 is seldom used today since ECC is embedded in almost all modern disk drives.
# RAID-3 can be used in data intensive or single-user environments which access long sequential records to speed up data transfer. However, RAID-3 does not allow multiple I/O operations to be overlapped and requires synchronized-spindle drives in order to avoid performance degradation with short records.
# RAID-4 offers no advantages over RAID-5 and does not support multiple simultaneous write operations.
# RAID-5 is the best choice in multi-user environments which are not write performance sensitive. However, at least three, and more typically five drives are required for RAID-5 arrays.


for aney game computer you would use raid 0 now for a server you might use raid 5

 

[vibrokatana]

it depends on wether you are running hardware or software raid 5. It may be slower in writes but it is more efficient with space. From what ive read the difference in writes is usually 12-30% (3 disk raid 5 vs 2 disk raid 0) .

It is impossible to have raid 5 slower then raid 1 unless something is incredibly wrong.

Of course running a 4+ disk raid 5 is what it was ment for

 

[michaelpi]

have you have evan used a raid 5 setup?

 

[vibrokatana]

I have set up 2 raid 5 arrays.

 

[Atown]

huzzah

 

[vibrokatana]

huzzah

wow that is a most informative post! Someone get him a cookie!

 

[SirThom]

wow that is a most informative post! Someone get him a cookie!

I can think of someone else who makes informative posts such as that one.... *scratches chin sagely*

That's a pretty rockin' system, Michael. That case looks hot, too.

 

[vibrokatana]

One of my friends used a similar case, it is very much like the antecs. I like my case tho, totally tooless drive and pci system that actually works great
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811170024
Only bad thing is the cold cathlod in the front turned from red to pink, rofl. that and the fan conflicted with my k-j audio module on my motherboard, nothing a razor blade cant fix

 

[Dark Virtue]

Not a bad case at all.

I went with Aspire's X-Cruiser myself.

 

[vibrokatana]

I hate the hard drive system though, its a pain to switch out hard drives...

 

[vibrokatana]

raid 1 is writting 100% of the data to each disk. raid 5 is writting 1/(n-1)*100% of the data to each disk, where n is the number of drives. Most good controllers will be able to handle the parity calculations as fast as they are received. Unless you are receiving blocks that are smaller then the parity chunks the performance should almost always be better.

 

[Corpfox]

Nice stuff, though kinda useless to have a firewire.

Front Ports: USB, IEEE 1394

Blue case is nice, I wished I had one, though mine is equal to yours except it comes with a PSU.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811208001

 

[vibrokatana]

I love firewire Whenever I can I get my external drives in firewire, much better performance if you ask me.

 

[Corpfox]

Whenever I can I get my external drives in firewire, much better performance if you ask me.

And yet, wouldn't it be better using a single high GB hard drive than multiple low GB hard drives?

That is true, Hes, however, mostly for digital cameras, camcorders and external devices such as scanners, printers, etc. Although, from Wikipedia, it does say Firewire is expectational on video and audio devices.

Unless, michaelpi, has a interest with using it, then al-righ-ty then; okay dokie; got it; understood.