sixstring
join:2002-09-16
Pasadena, CA
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Re: Building a new system - your thoughts?
looks like an insane system. Whats the total estimated cost?
One suggestion though, if you plan to go RAID 5 you may want to look into true hardware raid. (like an adaptec mini-PCI card) I've read the raid performance on the nvidia chipsets are abysmal at raid 5, because it takes so much processing time from the CPU. |
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Rhaps
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| From Newegg, it is around 3600$ with the two video cards in SLI.
I may buy one video card only and add the second one later so I'd save $500.
Good point with the raid. I will test the system with the mobo raid and if it is too slow I will go for a card, but I have no idea what card to get.
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