What is my Bottleneck?

[TrECeNTeRs]

Hello all, It has been awhile since I have been here and I appreciate the help in the past.

I am now currently looking for an upgrade to put a little money into my rig and I would like to increase data processing "I think that would be the term." for stuff such as un-raring "data extraction", Video Encoding, Quickpar, Loading up big files for games such as Maps, and file transfer from partition to partition. I do not know if I even have the BIOS setup correctly but to my knowledge it is.

Thanks for any help/knowledge you can provide. My stats are below.

Thanks, Tre

(P.S. - I love PC games. )



System Specs:

Q6600 Quad Core 1066fsb @ 2.4ghz G0 Step -
- "Do not think it will OC much with my Thermalright Ultra-120"

4Gig Mushkin 800mhz FSB

ASUS Striker Extreme Nforce 680i SLI 1066mhz Bus

1x Western Digital Raptor X 10,000 RPM SATA150 Hard Drive

2x 7500rpm Maxtor's

PC Power & Cooling 750W Quad - (825W Peak)

GeForce 8800Ultra 768MB

X-Fi Fatal1ty

Case has very adequate Cooling

( Looking intoa RAID 4x Drive setup of 10000RPM drives )
Would that help?

 

[Roguestar]

An Intel SSD and another 4GB of RAM. With your setup you're going to need to spend loads and loads of money to see an improvement over what you have.

Maybe also get a pair of 640GB WD Caviar drives to replace your maxtor drives?

 

[TrECeNTeRs]

How about a RAID5 setup with 4 sata dives 10000rpm ?

I kinda figured the HDD's were doing the most bottleneck...

Oh is that what the "Intel SSD" does??? I just read the info on them ... solid state drives.. that sounds nice never heard of them. I would say that is as fast as it gets.

Also would I need that with all of the sata ports that the MB has already?

Not looking for quickness out the gate just more speed while on the track. If you catch my drift.