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Just built a box using the Intel X58 board. Completely flawless installation, configuration, and operation. Small sample size, I know, but just tossing in my experience.
That chart is pretty cool, though I was looking for personal benchmarks and real-world tests.
Of course, I was also expecting the obligatory reference to a solid state drive. ;)
Looking at the WD Scorpio Black, Seagate Momentus 7200.3 and the Hitachi Travelstar 7K320. The price/performance ratio is close enough that I'd rather just go for whatever's fastest.
For what it's worth, this will be on a 32bit Vista Business notebook with 3GB of memory and an Intel Core Duo...
To be honest, I'd think a problem like that would be video related before it being hard drive related, but I've only seen that problem once or twice, and even then it was very short-lived.
P.S. Big fan of FF...nice wallpaper. :)
-George
Still playing since NA release, still enjoy the game very much--which means I enjoy the people I play with, as they end up making or breaking the game. If you're on the Midgardsormr server, feel free to send me a /tell in-game (my character's name is Resin).
My first piece of advice would be...
Unless there's some crazy interference picked up by the mini-plug cable (don't use a really long one), I doubt you'd hear a difference through a mini bookshelf system.
-George
Furthermore, both optical digital and coax digital can do 2.0 as well. Right now I'm running a Turtle Beach with a single digital coax out to a Sony ES home theater receiver, and it receives every type of audio I can throw at it, from 2.0 and 2.1 DTS to Dolby Pro-Logic, to 5.1 DTS. (No 7.1 for...