I benched my 2xIBM 7200 rpm ata100s deskstars on RAID 0 drives with raptest (raptor by canopus) and found that it's incredibly slow:
4810 kb/s read
14 mb/s write
Sandra 2002 index:
11594kb/s
About as fast as a 4.2k rpm ata66 drive, or a USB 2.0 external HD.
My system specs:
2 x IBM Deskstar...
I missed out on the last deal and I'm still regretting it. IMO that was a much better deal if you factor in taxes. But thanks for posting it anyway. :)
After a week of hesitation I broke down and ordered one yesterday. :P I hate it when this happens.. I don't really need it but It's a price I can't refuse.. DOH
Good to learn that it should overclock well, I'm gonna jump on that right away. One of the reasons why I got it is because I have a...
Well I went to a few forums and chatrooms to .. well basically look for an excuse to get this card. ;)
I don't know how reliable this information is, but someone that I talked to complained about the stability of this card on VIA chipset based motherboards. He also said that there are issues...
I'm conflicted about getting this card.. ah the price of addiction to anandtech hot deals forum.
There seems to be a way to re-flash the bios and make it into a 8500 retail (275/275) as long as the ram is 3ns rated. The program is called Flashradeon8500.zip. unfortunately ATI forced the...
i have 2 15" panels (i wish i only had 1, then i have an excuse to get this 19"), a viewsonic digital and a Dell analog.. both 30ms rise/fall i believe. I play counterstrike a lot, there's no ghosting on either monitor. I heard digital panels are slightly faster than analog, because it takes a...
I have a XP1700, 512 DDR and my fps hovers around 30-50 with my visiontek ti200 in counterstrike (highest resolution in D3D).. is that normal? I hear people get like 70-100fps in highest resolution with the same card? I know opengl is faster but i can't run it in the highest resolution because...
I got my copy last week at bestbuys for 29.95. BB was advertising it at 39 with a $10 GC and CC had it for 29. So i tried pricematching it at BB to see if i can get the 10 GC. no luck, but i read some other people managed to do it. Anyway I think it's a good game. It's a mix of RTS and 3D...
Ah I remember playing these things (text-based MUDS) back in '92 on the school lab terminals. Very addictive.. failed many-a-midterms because of them. :) The few i played most frequently were Ivory Tower, Kingdoms and Tsunami. I quit a long time ago though because they were too time...
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