Yea. The was. 4870 X2 required an 8-pin plus a 6-pin power supply.

yeah...not forgetting the gtx200 series too..if not mistaken 9800gx2 also same..

my X1950GT...

need 2 molex to run it...

power hungry cards !

i never knew the 6800ultra uses 2 power

Lol.. Guys, plan to get another 80GB HDD to make a RAID setup on my system. Well.. Will be using normal HDD to ran RAID, will there have any significant performance increment?

Only 2 days left and the thread is about 2 pages away.Seems like quite hot and new members join in.

@Valiant ,What is your proc belongs to ? Northwood or Prescott? 875 mobo?
@emy_xvidia ,added you in the list.Welcome to the old school club.

nope, if unless raid0 (stripped disk). mostly users would use raid1, mirroring crucial data. be informed that running raid0 will cause you to unable to ghost/clone due to the data spanned across two different disk set. If any data loss, it is quite impossible to retrieve it too because of fragments of data across two HDD.

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Added on September 3, 2008, 10:32 pmtest driven the card. damn ganas lah, unstoppable bleeding framerates @ hi resolution! price wise ah...

This post has been edited by edministrator: Sep 3 2008, 10:32 PM

@Edmin
Thx for the information. Duh.. Cant ghost the images of the system are quite risky. Once thing go wrong then all the databse go bye bye. Is is able to run raid0+1 at the same thing?

P/s: 4870X2? Read the review from windwithme ady.. Oh gosh! Banyak ganas! Haha! Pawned nVidia 200 series all the way.

@ fylon, raid 1+0 (0+1 is diff, cause u stripping the mirrored HDDs), if theoretically implemented, that would mean=

Raid 0 = 2 HDD for OS
Raid 1 = 2 HDDs just for mirroring

r u sure u wanna waste your resources for your normal work?

For normal usage,edmin do you raid your HDD ?

@Ray
for normal daily usage and optimising our HDD usage, i seriously do not advise having RAID, as i see little point in having such setups. It is better to segregate the HDDs u have for different purpose. That is what i do. Example:

1 small HDD, 2 partitions, 1 for OS one for OS image. 1 HDD for storage, 1 for multimedia, etc etc.

Isn't that a better way to maximise your HDDs rather than RAID?

@edmin
Ur statement quite true thou. Anyways, does HDD cache influence multimedia file playback?

if your HDD is high capacity (1Tera, for ex.) of course more cache would mean better performance across the large and cramped platters in the HDD. for 500 and below, IMHO your file loadings are just a tad faster with bigger cache (16 vs 32MB, google for benchies). HDD rpm (like 10k rpm for raptors, means faster seek, read, write speed) and system RAM i think is still the best performance booster. Another fine example, SSD does not need lots of cache, but read write speed is astonishing!

This post has been edited by edministrator: Sep 4 2008, 11:24 AM

@edmin,yup i'm also segregate my HDD into a few drives. Honest to say,my loading is not heavy as my usage on my rig is very minimal.Raid definately isn't needed for me.

@Edmin & Ray
Yea.. Agreed that. Actually my system files were been segregated into few drive. Just hand itchy wanna try off raid. So ask before i did any mistaken.

What antivirus u guys using currently? I'm using Kaspersky 7.0 now. It offers very good protection but the problem is it's quite heavy for my system to run it. It takes around 20sec to startup when i already enter windows

valiant made a post and left the building

itchy for raid? i discourage it though

i'm using nod32 for my p4. the older version. used to use bitdefender, but it had some bugs. startup has been pretty fast, bearable, coz the os running on a 2mb cache 5400rpm hdd only

LOL.. Draw back my raid setup idea.

Hm.. Currently running on ESET Smart Security. Well.. Its from NOD32. So far so good. Light weight and quite strong. But con's is, have to get to the 3rd party website to obtain the "ehem" key for updating.

fylon, i've got to workaround the ahem thingy. kaspersky is also another big headache if you wanna use ahem. but the ori one is kinda cheap, so quite worth buying also..