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Boo, I want to see all those scores!Originally posted by Asher
I just went and...acquired...PCMark04 Pro to run the HDD benchie on my drives. Mind you, I haven't defragged in months...We're sorry, the voices in my head are not available at this time. Please try back again soon.Comment
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Did you remove the stock cooling?Originally posted by Asher
How did I get a 486MHz Radeon 9800 Pro, you might ask?
The answer is, quite simply, awesome custom cooling.
Yes, that is two heatsinks each as large as the card with a plasma heatpipe connecting the two and a large fan mounted on top. The kicker? The thing's 20dB.
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And 2 74 raptors in raid 0 will waste anything on the planet.Originally posted by DrSpike
Yeah I'm trying to pull up some numbers now to compare. Basically it looks like two standard SATA drives in a RAID0 array are only slightly behind a solitary 74GB Raptor. 2 36GB Raptors in a RAID0 array are faster than the solitary 74GB by some margin.
BTW the 74 is ultra quiet, some kind of special bearings. I considered 2 36s in raid 0, but did not like the odds of 2x crash and burn. Plus one drive generates less heat. I originally was going to put a 120 GB Sata drive in this system, but then said WTF.
Maybe I should order another one so I can toast Asher's score. Actually not worth it, but I do like the boyz 9800 mods.We're sorry, the voices in my head are not available at this time. Please try back again soon.Comment
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But that is 51940 Canadian....I forgot the exchange rate...What is that is the US?Originally posted by Asher
Haha! Ownage!
Beat this, suckers.
Yes, you read that right.
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Yeah, the stock cooling is noisier and rather crappy.Originally posted by Spaced Cowboy
Did you remove the stock cooling?
More pics of that please!
Here is the card with the stock cooling.Attached Files"The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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Stock cooling removed.Attached Files"The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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Side view.Attached Files"The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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Another angle.Attached Files"The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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And a closeup.Attached Files"The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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I doubt they'd waste a single 15K rpm Atlas, not to mention in a RAID.Originally posted by Spaced Cowboy
And 2 74 raptors in raid 0 will waste anything on the planet.
"The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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SC what's your HD score on PCMark?Comment
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It was like 6184 or something like that.We're sorry, the voices in my head are not available at this time. Please try back again soon.Comment
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From Tom's:
Summary: Brilliant Image
After a brief look at the benchmark results it's obvious that WD pulled out all the stops with the Raptor. Until now, anything above 70 MB/s was indisputably SCSI territory, and Raptor was a poacher.
It will surely want to do the same with the price, although we dare not hope for record low prices. After all, it is a professional hard drive, not a product where the manufacturer can afford to cut corners.
Quite different from Seagate's Barracuda 7200.7 - unlike the Raptor it is intended for the man in the street and is very affordable. It passed the tests without a murmur, ensuring the Barracuda a continued reputation as the subjectively quietest ATA drive with 7,200 rpm. Even from this point of view, its performance data are convincing. With 12.7 ms average access time, it remains unbeaten except by the Hitachi 7K250. It looks even better in the application benchmarks of the Winbench 99 2.0: This is its strongest suit.
It will be interesting to see how performance develops when command queuing becomes more available. In several areas, that could reshuffle the deck. Basically, however, we expect a considerable gain in performance.
One should not draw a direct comparison between the drives; the intended areas of application are too different. However, here is our summary of the two: each cuts a brilliant figure in its own area of use. The 7200.7 in Desktop PCs, thanks to its high performance level and the impossibly low noise level. We can safely advise the Seagate 7200.7 for anyone who prizes a system that is as quiet as possible.
The same goes for the Raptor in server or workstation environments: If it has to go fast, there's no alternative for serial ATA. The WD740 leaves its sister, the WD360, in the dust, and garners the title of fastest ATA drive for itself. The noise level, drastically lowered by the fluid dynamic bearing, is an advantage prized by computer fans who prefer to use this type of drive as the system hard drive.
Although I agree with Asher that the 15k SCSI are faster.We're sorry, the voices in my head are not available at this time. Please try back again soon.Comment
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Asher, do you think the video card cooler is worth 40$. Looks like you have the Zalman ZM80C-HP heat sink with the ZM-OP1 fan.We're sorry, the voices in my head are not available at this time. Please try back again soon.Comment
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