new benchmarks

faster loading times by 40% to 60%

i have 2 80gb seagate barracudas at 7200rpm and a 8mb cache, seek time 8.5 (thats what i clocked anyway)
together it acts as 1-scsi hd @ 160gb 15000rpm 16(ish)mb cache with a seek time of 4.3 (thats what i clocked anyway)

oh ya it installs quicker too

RAID0 gives a good improvement in load rates 40-60%
BUT
Its about 1-2% worse in acctualy game performance, ;)

is 1-2% even noticeable

dude...everything is loaded into the ram to begin with (thats why we have loading screens) all the data needed for a level compressed or uncompressed goes into system and video card ram, so i dont see where you get this 1-2% thing from.
research it if you wont but its a known fact hard drive proformance does not effect game proformance at all
all it does is load, even if the game has "no load" times it loads for a split second (morrowind,halflife)
but thats so minute it does effect any thing unless you need to defrag, so what you said make no sence,
sorry dude but thats a fact.

p.s. quote me

not unless your computer totally sucks, usally its about never more then 1 fps.
lol, im kinda of playing around, to have all your things load 40-80% faster is well worth losing 1 fps.

EDIT: I saw this in a benchmark, i forgot what RAID0 does(raid1,2,5 i know what they do). So i googled this and got these benchmakrs, its at most a 1 fps drop. hell run after run, most games flux that much. but umm

http://www.overclockercafe.com/Articles/RAID/

thats the source.

inresponse to the blue man ...no

just like the 2-3%increase of dual channel ram....no

dual channel does 10% from what ive read... let me find some benchmarks.

ok ....but not if its overclocked

Originally posted by killyourself@Aug 18 2004, 06:25 PM
ok ....but not if its overclocked

if whats not? RAID0 will drop you .5-1% of your FPS no matter what

Dual Channel Ram will outperform single channel by 5-20%

http://www.tomshardware.com/motherboard/20...1107/index.html