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    NVIDIA 3-Way SLI and AMD Tri-Fire Redux @ [H]

    i7 920 at stock speed definately will bottleneck a GTX 580. Some games prefer higher clocks rather than number of cores. I would say at least 3.5Ghz and 4.0Ghz would be the sweet spot. Here are some interesting articles on CPU scaling. Some games scale very well...
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    NVIDIA 3-Way SLI and AMD Tri-Fire Redux @ [H]

    Very interesting results. I wonder my i920@3.6Ghz will bottleneck GTX 460 in SLI. I'm gaming in 1920x1200.
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    seagate barracuda 1tb problem

    Which firmware is that barracuda on? Sounds scary because I have two of the same drives with lots of data inside.
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    VelociRaptor...Broken? Help?

    I think Velociraptor's seek is pretty loud. Its louder than my two 640GB samsung F1 and WD Blue 500GB.
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    Batman Arkham Asylum Demo Released...

    Here are some screenshots from the demo. Maxed settings at 1920x1080 on my rig.
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    Velociraptor 300GB

    Actually that fits in a 3.5inch bay. There is another that fits in 5.25 inch bay and supports up to three 2.5inch SSDs/HDDs.
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    Velociraptor 300GB

    Im not sure this is available in your area or not but I'm using my 2.5inch VelociRaptor with this http://www.scythe.co.jp/accessories/bay-rafter25revb.html It fits in my CM 690 HDD cage and cools down well, about 35C (ambient 25C).
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    ST31000528AS only two platter 1 TB drive?

    I have 7200.12 1TB with CC44 firmware. Read/write speeds are fast, >100MB/s but seek times are terrible at 18ms. The drives are very quite though. Im using them for storage so its accepatable but if you are looking for system drive, I would suggest getting a Black or the upcoming Samsung F3s...
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    Seagate 2 TB Drives

    The latest 7200.12 with CC44 firmware have 18-20ms seek which is comparable to 5900 or 5400 green drives. They are extremely quite though. Im not sure they are good enough to be system drive because of the terrible seek times. Maybe for storage if seek is not a problem.
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    My Options?

    I would matrix RAID the WD drives and use the 1.5TB as storage. I have similiar setup with 2 Samsung F1s 640GB and a 1TB Ecogreen F2 as storage. For the two WD drives, I would short stroke maybe 80GB for OS(RAID0), another 100 or 150GB for apps(RAID0) and the rest for RAID1 or RAID0 depending of...
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    Need hard drive advice

    Thanks for the benchmarks. How about daily usage, like windows booting, applications booting and system responsiveness? Im planning to to use raptor only for OS and games and the storage drives for HD video and file editing purpose. Maybe I will get SSDs in future when price comes down.
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    Need hard drive advice

    I think the 7200.12 series is not affected but from reviews I have read, their access time is slower than other 7200rpm drives. I havent actually made up my mind for storage drive but Im leaning towards Seagate at the moment. They are fairly quiet and should be fast enough for storage. I have...
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    Drives Idling

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    Need hard drive advice

    Can you explain why higher platter density drives can get higher read write/write throughput? Ive made my purchased for Velociraptor 150GB. Now searching for two drives for storage. I will be doing some HD encoding and storing lots of HD contents. Any recommendations? I have Seagate 7200.12 1TB...
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    Keep 300GB Velociraptor or buy SSD

    How about comparing velociraptors to regular 7200rpm? Are they much faster? I just made a purchased for a 150GB Velociraptor for $100 instead of getting two Blacks for RAID0 but I really wonder whether I made the correct decision.
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