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    November 4th, 2009 02:25 AM #1
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    *Jun, since your HDD is the bottleneck, maybe you can try RAID 0 / 1 / 1+0.
    That's ok. It's only bad if I'm short on ram. But usually, once the app loads into memory, hard drive access should be minimal. I've already seen a huge improvement in load times with Flight Simulator X on my current rig with 8gb ram compared to the 2gb of my previous pc. Add to that going from a 512mb video card to one with 1gb.
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    November 4th, 2009 02:36 AM #2
    How does 8gb feel like?
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    November 4th, 2009 02:44 AM #3
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    How does 8gb feel like?
    It's like having 8 toilets in the bathroom.

    It seems so overkill right now. But, you know how short overkill lasts.
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    November 5th, 2009 02:41 AM #4
    Some other things with the new rig:

    Video
    I thought the Windows Experience score of 6.9 for graphics/gaming was way too high. That was using the drivers on the Sapphire cd. I then downloaded and used the latest ATI Catalyst drivers. The score dropped to a more realistic 6.0. But frame rates increased by at least 1/3 on all games.

    ex: Doom 3 1152x864 at Ultra settings (everything including shadows enabled). FPS went from 95 to 157

    Memory
    I used Everest Home Edition to test the ram. It's DDR3 1600 running at a motherboard default of DDR 1333.
    CPU: 2.8ghz
    Read Speed: 11462 MB/s
    Write Speed: 4116 MB/s
    Latency: 17.7 ns


    Temperatures:
    I ran 3D Mark 05 not 06 because I'm currently using a 19" monitor with a res of 1440x900. At a testing res of 1024x768....
    HD 5770 GPU max temp with fan at 50%: 50 Celsius
    CPU Temp in BIOS during reboot: 46 Celsius

    Noise
    Much quieter than my previous build. On the older system, I can hear the cpu fan over the cooling fans which were pretty loud on their own. With this new build, all I hear are the cooling fans. Once I disconnected the noisiest fan (80mm side fan inward to cpu), I could barely hear the cpu fan while the video card fan is silent.

    I should be finishing the 72-hr reliability testing soon.
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