Upgrading rig, need help!

[j_d3]

The drives you'll only notice on load times, so maps loading, boot times, ect. Ram coupled with more overclocking headroom will get you the game performance boosts. Which drive are your games running off of? Do you see high hdd access while gaming?

 

[farlex85]

Would the Veloci Raptors speed up games if they're installed on it? Like get rid of stuttering and speed up the loading etc.
I heard virus scans only lasted less than half a minute too and boot times were at 7 seconds.

I would buy this with the sound card if this is true, current budget rose to 550 but still waiting til next month to order these babies

Won't speed up gameplay but will speed up load times. Virus scans depend on density and fragmentation of the drive. Boot times are faster, I do xp in about 7 seconds, vista takes longer. You can kind of think of it logically, the access times are very low, so the drive can find files much quicker, sustained read/write times are roughly average for fast drives (your AAK actually is a bit faster here, but not by much, your access time is about twice that of a raptor though) so reading and writing once it finds the file is roughly average. If you raided another AAK your read/write times would be roughly twice that of the raptor.

As somebody who owns a raptor, I can say from what I can tell they probably aren't worth the money unless you can get em cheap. They have their perks, but they just cost too much and are too loud to be truly a recommended choice imo.

 

[spearman914]

VelociRaptors are pretty much crap until u buy 2 to raid 0 them. RAM ehhh, ur not gonna see a huge increase, save up some more.

 

[j_d3]

Won't speed up gameplay but will speed up load times. Virus scans depend on density and fragmentation of the drive. Boot times are faster, I do xp in about 7 seconds, vista takes longer. You can kind of think of it logically, the access times are very low, so the drive can find files much quicker, sustained read/write times are roughly average for fast drives (your AAK actually is a bit faster here, but not by much, your access time is about twice that of a raptor though) so reading and writing once it finds the file is roughly average.

As somebody who owns a raptor, I can say from what I can tell they probably aren't worth the money unless you can get em cheap. They have their perks, but they just cost too much and are too loud to be truly a recommended choice imo.

Definately agree with you, I went striped F1's for that reason, raptors look nice on paper but practically they just don't give the bang for your buck, if you really want to go that route SSD's are getting more affordable . Stick with the ram upgrade and see what you can get in additional overclocking with them.

 

[Frizz]

So if I buy say another 1tb wd caviar aaks ... and did raid 0 altogether with my hdd's it'd be faster than a raptor!? :O

That would be an awesome choice, I might buy another 640gb + 1tb for backup... hopefully my powersupply will be able to handle this lol.

 

[j_d3]

So if I buy say another 1tb wd caviar aaks ... and did raid 0 altogether with my hdd's it'd be faster than a raptor!? :O

That would be an awesome choice, I might buy another 640gb + 1tb for backup... hopefully my powersupply will be able to handle this lol.

Faster for sustained read/writes, not latency, so you'll notice it on drive intensive apps like video editing, sound mixing, photoshoping, and generally in everything you do because it has to come off your drive at some point or go on.

 

[Frizz]

If I wait til next month I'll have a 600 budget, yet still don't know what to get for my system altogether with that money hahaha.

Its a bad month for upgrades . Virtually nothing gives me the performance boost I want thats worth it, HDD latency and faster read/write times just isn't appealing enough to spend 200 - 300 on.