In-game settings under the graphics options, what have you got Character Model Limit and Character Model Quality set at? If they aren't already, put them both on "Lowest" and see what that does. From my own testing, with more players around the game becomes incredibly CPU limited, and by a...
I always use Core Temp. I don't have an i7 yet, but I assume it's been updated with support for them by now. The temperature doesn't seem unreasonable, depending on your system cooling - you don't mention what cooler you are using. My old Core 2 Quad Q6600 sits at 25-30 C at idle depending on the am...
Indeed - at some point memory bandwidth or latency will become a limiting factor. If this is the case with a Core i7 2500k at 4.5 Ghz+, I don't know. Some benchmarks would be useful, especially ones concerned with archive operations, these seem to be the most sensitive apps when it comes to memory b...
I just noticed that these forums seem to have stopped allowing table tags, and so my table of all the different results is messed up. Here is a screenshot of it instead:
Well, I finally got around to building my new system, and testing the RAID5 performance of the ICH9R chipset. The quick summary? :D :o :D :o :D :o :D :o :D :o First the specs of the PC, to put the numbers in perspective ⋅ Antec P190 case ⋅ Gigabyte P35C-DS3R motherboard, with P35...
Very nice, thanks for the info 8) Yeah, sequential transfer is mainly what I am interested in - my RAID5 array will just be a big 'ole storage drive for all my media. Mainly just serving my PC, but possibly 1-2 others over a gigabit network. I don't care about the I/O operations per second, I won't ...
Using RAID-5 with any regular onboard controller is going to be very slow and basically shooting yourself in the foot. In order to make it really work, you need a proper dedicated controller that has a chip for offloading the parity calculations. Well, that's what I'm trying to find out here. The a...
Just as an FYI, to the best of my knowledge, you can't expand raid5 arranys on the fly. I could be mistaken, but that's the last I heard. Also, the parity calculations are going to be quite a bit slower for an onboard controller that doesn't have dedicated RAM than even what a single-drive would be...
Yeah, I thought someone would suggest RAID 1+0. Thanks for the suggestion, but it isn't what I need, sorry. I don't like the fact that any RAID involving 1 means you lose 50% of the total drive capacity. With RAID 5, you lose 33% with 3 drives, 25% with 4 drives, 20% with 5 drives, and only 16.6% wi...
Hi all Does anyone have any performance figures for the RAID 5 support of the ICH9R southbridge chipset? I did some searching on the web and couldn't seem to find any numbers. The latest relevant article I found here on TR was this one: http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q4/chipset-raid/index.x?pg=1 ...
If you don't mind me asking though, where did you get this information? Is it from your own testing, or... ?