Bought a new beastie :)

[Elie]

Just purchased an HP xw9300 workstation with dual AMD Opterons 275's, 2GB ram and 80GB WD as C: and three (yet to be determaned) 250GB SATA II drives in RAID 0 configuration.

[Nowhere]

Have you sent PM to Gurm yet?

[Elie]

Nope

[Marshmallowman]

Nice, are you going to give cinerella a go?

[Mehen]

wow! ... and where exactly in Canada are you? more specifically, what is the location of your computer?

[Paddy]

and is it security tagged

[Kooldino]

Man, that is one sweet rig. I want benchmarks when you get it!

[Elie]

Sure thanks guys

I will also be buying an ATI X1800 for the Xw8200 and will keep the X700 for the 9300

Regards,
Elie

[VJ]

Just purchased an HP xw9300 workstation with dual AMD Opterons 275's, 2GB ram and 80GB WD as C: and three (yet to be determaned) 250GB SATA II drives in RAID 0 configuration.

Nice rack system.

But enlighten me: why 3x 250 GB disks in RAID0 in stead of 4x 250 GB disks in RAID5?
It yields the same storage space, but with added security - I doubt the price of a single harddisk isn't that big in comparison to the system... Or is it a software raid?


Jörg

[Elie]

To VJ: Because it only has 4 SATA II connectors, so my C drive took up a connection, and I have three left for three SATAII drives in raid 0 simply for storage space and speed.

This machine is primarily for video editing.

To Chrono: Believe it or not, ATI's DX 9 DirectX9 GetRenderTargetData() has way more bandwidth than Nvidia will ever have, so it is recommended I install ATI X1800XT with 256 or 512MB instead of Nvidia.

Also Nvidia does not make good use of it's on board memory, even though it says for example 256MB, it will only use 128MB or so and rely on system memory for the rest, this is what I was told.

So I'm going ATI

[dZeus]

To VJ: Because it only has 4 SATA II connectors, so my C drive took up a connection, and I have three left for three SATAII drives in raid 0 simply for storage space and speed.

This machine is primarily for video editing.

To Chrono: Believe it or not, ATI's DX 9 DirectX9 GetRenderTargetData() has way more bandwidth than Nvidia will ever have, so it is recommended I install ATI X1800XT with 256 or 512MB instead of Nvidia.

Also Nvidia does not make good use of it's on board memory, even though it says for example 256MB, it will only use 128MB or so and rely on system memory for the rest, this is what I was told.

So I'm going ATI

sounds like TurboCache (aka HyperMemory for ATI cards). Currently only used on low-end cards afaik

[VJ]

To VJ: Because it only has 4 SATA II connectors, so my C drive took up a connection, and I have three left for three SATAII drives in raid 0 simply for storage space and speed.

Ah, ok...


Jörg