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i just picked up a 4800+ also, for about $300.

Theyre not bad dude. Theyre the best there is for people that want the ultimate. Aside from high priced SCSI. Most people cant afford them. Or dont want to.

i have 2 74gb raptors in Raid0. I never had any reliability issues. Sure they cost too much, but if you want the absolute peak access, you go with them. the lowest I seen my access time in a HD Tach chart is 8.1ms, and thats only after I installed my dual core CPU. Before that, it was always...

well.. i installed my first dual core CPU... 4800+ at stock speed.. no difference in my hard drive test. well i gained .1ms in access but thats prob just a coincidence. I have to read up on dual core now and figure out if theres any other setup I need to do. But it did boot up to desktop...

my next charts will be with my new CPU, to see if it makes any difference. old cpu: Athlon 64 XP 3200+ (stock=2.0ghz, usually run at 2.2ghz) new cpu arriving today: Athlon 64 XP 4800+ X2

2 more graphs of my new raid array: http://sicily.globat.com/~bellbottomblasters.com/images/74gbraid2.jpg http://sicily.globat.com/~bellbottomblasters.com/images/74gbraid3.jpg

My old single 74gb Raptor vs my 2 new 74GB 16mb Raptors in stripe (64kb) http://sicily.globat.com/~bellbottomblasters.com/images/74gb.jpg http://sicily.globat.com/~bellbottomblasters.com/images/74gbraid.jpg

new or used for that price? Ive always stuck with the "Atlas" series of SCSI drives. Anyone have favorites? I dont really want to buy a used ANYTHING.. drives are sketchy enough as it is.

i been thinking about SCSI a lot. I used to have the old U160 setup in some 15k rpm drives. but the drives were only 9 and 18gb. now, i'd need a 74GB SCSI as my OS drive. + a controller card. And if i want a 15k rpm one, its $600+ for the drive alone.

thanks for those reviews, I checked them out. I did have updated firmware. I had upgraded my MB bios a coupel days ago which renewed the Silicon Graphics controller firmwware. (Even though I'm not using that one now). And I downloaded the newest Nforce SATA drivers yesterday during install...

Adding my setup: Coolermaster CM Stacker case AMD Athlon XP 3200+ (non dual, running stock speed right now) 1 GB ram (Geil) BFG 7800GTX Audigy XS2 3 tests. Was comparing my raptor to a striped non raptor setup. All in all, now im tempted to keep the new pair of disks. Look at how much...

keep in mind, that any game that isnt officially widescreen will look like crap on a widescreen TV. everything will be stretched out. I only have like 2 widescreen games. So you need to put your TV into 4:3 in that case, if you want your 480p games to look right. (I dont have many of those...

I love the stacker. I have one 120mm front in my hard drive cooling module, and one 120mm in rear. Then I have a CM crossflow blowing across the whole motherboard. Then i have an 80mm exhaust blowhole on top. my cpu averages 26C my PSIMC averages 30C my chipset averages 34C my 7800gtz...

I fixed it.. get this.... I decided to bite the bullet and take off my heatsink. Guess what, I had zero thermal compound or pads on the GPU. Is it supposed to? Anyone taken apart a stock BFG 7800GTX? Well, I Arctic Silvered up all the ram and the GPU. Reassembled carefully. Well, I did...

my BFG 7800GTX hits 90-91C under load.. i know.. it sucks.. and i have excellent case cooling, my cpu ranges from 24C-26C..