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Pycno
01-18-2010, 07:17 AM
This computer setup will be used for 5boxing with innerspace, and singleboxing with EyeFinity 3x1920x1200 displays. I intend to overclock the i5 to 4,0Ghz with the H50-water cooler to keep the cpu from melting too much :)

Ill run 2 cores on main window, and the other 2 cores will run 2 slaves each on low gfx settings.
When singleboxing I will use a second computer to run the slaves.

Question: For multiple SSD's, is it better to put them all in Raid-0 and have OS+Data folder on it, or should OS and Data folder be on separate drives?

Anyone got thoughts or input on this setup?

http://www.komplett.no/k/shoplist.aspx?mode=receive&si=739796&su=E3506F82-898F-4E98-8701-AEB5A74C0272

(Norwegian shop, 15,385NOK = ~2600$)

Talos
01-18-2010, 01:20 PM
I got no data to prove my point but i went with 2 seperate non-raid SSD's.

1 for windows/programfiles/anything else that runs in the background
1 for wowfolder (and the spare room for CoD:MW2 and other new games i play frequently)

this allows the entire 3GB/s bandwith passtrough to be free for wow data without any sudden windows service starting up and blocking it. I also tend to browse websites and play winamp or a video while leveling or grinding, which again dont clog up the bandwith and seektimes of the wow disk.

Raid setup would indeed mean higher read/write speeds but i dont know what the effect of windows and stuff on it makes in term of loading speed ingame.