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l2es-captreddog
Joined: Jan 23, 2007
Posts: 335
Location: PLAYING WITH A RIGHT BUNCH OF TANKERS
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Tue Sep 20, 2011 10:50 pm |
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ive always used raid 0 , unless you have a drive failure its pretty rare to lose data , buy reliable drives and you shouldnt have a prob , but i would buy the same drives , from the same vendor if i was going raid chris , and yes running windows and games for that matter is significatly faster with two drives striped , for example using 2 drives with a spin speed of 7500 , equvalents to a 15,000 single drive , raptor drives are the fastest in scsi sata terms as mrix will tell you , but do come at a premium ! . when playing games your disk is constantly being accessed and written to , the faster you can access this data the faster the program will run , loading times on maps are also reduced and it is noticble , as mrix points out , have raid and then put an image on a single drive as back up( i also store all my files and movies etc on separate drives ) , ive only once had a faliure on Raid0 and that was when a drive failed on me |
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l2es-roguesamurai
Joined: May 12, 2007
Posts: 1550
Location: Athlone, Ireland
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Thu Oct 13, 2011 5:18 pm |
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I just read 1 of the 1st official reviews of AMD's new Bulldozer cpu's. The FX-8150 (the top of the range). It's not good.
Here's the review -
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cpus/2011/10/12/amd-fx-8150-review/1
Basically it loses to both the i7-2600k and even the i5-2500k. I know Reddog was planning on getting 1 of these cpu's to replace his current top end AMD cpu. From the review it seems that its single threaded performance can actually be worse than the part its replacing. Even in heavilly multi threaded software, which doesn't tend to include games, it loses out to the Intel parts. By a decent margin too in some applications.
I'm not a person to stick to any perticular brand, be it cars or cpu's, I buy the part that gives the best performance per buck. But I was hoping this new cpu would be good, and beat the Intel, as it would've been in my kind of price range and hence allowed me too get a bit more performance for my money. It also would've innevetably led to Intel reducing their prices to compete, so we all win.
Roll on Ivybridge.
Ps. sorry to be the bearer of bad news Reddog  |
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l2es-RonnieBoy
Joined: Sep 10, 2011
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Fri Oct 14, 2011 1:09 pm |
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Yeah, I had been waiting eagerly for the various reviews on the 8150, and must admit I'm pretty disappointed after all the touted 30-50% improvement over current generations of chips claims.
I can understand that it's a new architecture and all, but when it loses out to the previous generation of AMD's? WTF? I can see in a year or two's times that these might be worth it, as apparently Windows 8 will make use of the new architecture better, plus there'll be programs and patches that make better use of the various instructions on the chip. But at that point it'll be competing against Ivy Bridge.
Anyways I was just waiting on official reviews of the FX 8150, before deciding what to upgrade to. So now I've ordered and half finished building a new I5 2500K based system. Just waiting on a new PSU as I bricked my last one. |
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l2es-roguesamurai
Joined: May 12, 2007
Posts: 1550
Location: Athlone, Ireland
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Sat Nov 19, 2011 3:00 pm |
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Just thought I'd update this a little bit. Intel's LGA 2011 socket cpu's have been released. Here's a review.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core-i7-3960x-3930k.html
They're not as good as expected really. Like Bulldozer, they're design has servers in mind. The quad channel memory offers no real advantage in day to day use and gaming. In fact their only advantage over a 1155 socket cpu is the fact that you can have 2 x16 lanes if using sli or crossfire. Using a single graphics card, their is no performance advantage between the Sandybridge E or the standard Sandybridge cpu's. They offer adjustments of bus speeds etc for overclocking, but in reality the heat they generate needs some very efficient cooling. Xbit 'only' managed to overclock to 4.5ghz stable. Which the current Sandybridge E will reach with ease.
IMO, unless your planning on running 2 GTX580's or similar, the huge prices for the 2 cpu's that have been released aren't justified at all. The cheapest of the 2 is nearly 500 quid!!! |
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l2es-roguesamurai
Joined: May 12, 2007
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Location: Athlone, Ireland
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Thu Dec 22, 2011 11:02 pm |
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The AMD HD7970 was officially launched today. It is now the fastest single gpu card available, and the 1st card to be released using the new 28nm manufacturing process. I just read the review by Bit-Tech, and it's good. It uses a whole new architecture too. Good to see some new hardware being released that actually works well, unlike Bulldozer, and to a lesser extent the Sandybridge E cpu's. Good news for all of us as it keeps pushing the competition leading to better products at better prices. Whether you actually need the stuff is another thing, as games aren't really pushing hardware at the moment. Even BF3 wasn't as distressing as was expected. (although my system sweats like a pig).
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2011/12/22/amd-radeon-hd-7970-3gb-review/1
It wont be available to buy untill early january, for around £440.
I predict Captreddog reaching for his wallet in the new year, and a pair of 6970's going up for sale 
Nvidea's 700 series wont be getting released untill early next year, they will also be made using 28nm process. |
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l2es-roguesamurai
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