Posts by Thedarklord

@tycoonbob @parityboy Thank you for the good info, learn something every day So Dell Perc 6/i 's are great bang for the buck, hardware raid, good for RAID 5, do they do any non standard RAID 5 algorithums?, so if the controller dies?,...

Ok, if I were to drop the firmware RAID, then what kind of prices.models would a good RAID 5 controller be (SATA with at least 4 ports), the ones ive seen are "Adaptec" or the like, and those are about 300-500. Also, software RAID?,...

Quote:Originally Posted by PizzaMan ^^^^These benchmarks are not so cpu dependent with this gpu. The gpu bottleneck is huge and faster cpu speeds have tiny yields compared to what you see when OCing the gpu's memory. Interesting,...

Quote:Originally Posted by killabytes Clearly you already know what you want. Well, decideing on CPU power again, trying to see if anyone is using has used a 35W Sandy Bridge / Ivy Bridge CPU and can speak to its server...

Quote:Originally Posted by killabytes Number 1 issue I see here is Windows 7. It's not a server OS, drop that for a true server OS. Number 2; your RAID "Controller". It's going to be slow and it's going to depend on your CPU for...

Sounds really interesting! Low end - Mid Range is where the most exciteing OC'ing is (for me anyway), besides seeing someone do a suicide run with a 500+ video card, lol. Quick question though, about the choice of benchmark, all of...

Fellow OCN's, Just a quick question for the other server smart community, which CPU to go with for a new home server build, host OS will be Win7 Ultimate. Things im considering; Heat, Noise, Application Specific Performance...

I already have the Core 2 Quad Q9650 on another machine, so taking price out of the picture here, this is just to figure out which is the better processor for gaming. Edit: @itzhoovEr Yeah I already was looking / am looking at the...

Just as the title says, which CPU is best for gaming at both 1680x1050 and 1900x1200? Core i3-2100 @3.1 Ghz vs Core 2 Quad Q9650 @ 3.0 Ghz With all the other system parts being identical (GPU/Memory/HDD/Ect). ,Thedarklord

Ok, thanks everyone for your input! Looks like im going to go with the i3-2100 as it does give similar if not better performance than the Q9650 I have sitting around. And between Sandy Bridge / Ivy Bridge if she starts to see games being...