Yeah now that you mention it I remember there were 2 cards and a cable running between the Voodoo2 and either the motherboard or the other video card, no idea what the other card was though but probably just something to display a picture. I miss that computer. :(
Is there any reason to keep...
Lol people used to have two brands of GPUs in the same PC? I was relatively young at the time but I remember both my AST computer with Pentium I 100 MHz and 16 MB RAM and my IBM Aptiva with Pentium II 400 MHz, 64 MB SDRAM and a Vooodoo2 card. My parents threw away the latter unfortunately. :(
Are they using DDR2 for that now? I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of those people are almost as quick to upgrade from DDR3 to DDR4 as the enthusiast crowd. :D
I am not looking for the kind of performance you see in servers (far from it) what I'm really wondering is what variables you have to look at when it comes to I/O performance. If the system is slow because there's not enough RAM, you add more, if the CPU is the bottleneck you get more and faster...
Intel says different: http://download.intel.com/pressroom/archive/reference/ISC_2010_Skaugen_keynote.pdf (look at page 38)
If they will ever make a video card for gaming based on this technology is a different story. Although to me the idea of dropping Larrabee as a gaming card technology and...
Yeah well we can ignore Windows boot times because I realize it will be impacted by the initialization of the RAID controller card if nothing else. What I'm mostly interested in is what way you have to go to maximize I/O performance in the same way that you would get more and faster cores, and...
That sounds good, but how can I be sure that it will be faster when it comes to booting Windows, application startup, level load times etc. than the 4x X25-E's were on the Adaptec card? I'm still in the dark as to how performance will scale, where the bottleneck is etc. when it comes to storage...
Exactly. If there is anything I can imagine that would reignite PC gaming and set it off from consoles it's the return of software rendering enabled by something like Larrabee or possibly CUDA/OpenCL. Artistic freedom and creativity is what drove game development in the mid-to-late 1990's and...
The Techreport write-up used an Adaptec 5405 card. I would never put SSDs on a motherboard RAID controller. =P
For the moment I'm mostly interested in the performance scaling with different SSDs, different numbers of SSDs and different RAID controllers. Any budget number I could give you would...
My build is still far in the future so we can ignore real-world considerations like cost and time frame, but if it ends up being more expensive than the FusionIO PCI-E cards then I guess that defeats the purpose of finding a reasonable alternative to those. =)
I looked at both the Z-Drive and...
What kind of SSD RAID array would be the best for minimizing boot, application startup and level load times and for workstation applications such as CAD, 3D modeling, rendering and physics computing? The ones I've been looking at (4x X25-E in RAID 0) and products such as the OCZ Z-drive...
You forget that most motherboards have integrated graphics in the chipset. On-die graphics is a waste of die space for both enthusiasts and professionals who use discrete graphics and for those for whom motherboard graphics are enough (the vast majority of users).
I agree. Consoles are responsible for the present situation of PC games (and ironically also for the "golden age" of GPUs, at least when it comes to value) and should be burnt at the stake.
I'm looking forward to Haswell and I think I can put off my next desktop/workstation build to 2013 (although that is an easy thing to say now). The last CPUs I have bought since Intel started with the Tick/Tock model and slightly before that have been the Conroe (E6600) and the Nehalem (i7...
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