Running 5x WoWs on a capped server using the latest intel X25 SSD

[Evilseed]

If you are going for SSD speed, get the intel x25e/m They are insanely fast. However, they dissapear from windows for no reasons

[Sam DeathWalker]

Owltoid post yur results with that drive, I might try the $83 adata mcl 32g drives if yours works out.

[Sam DeathWalker]

Look nothing is close to the I7 solutions:

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/824/4/

All these other items are junk by comparison.

Look ASSUMING that the X25 compleatly saturates its Sata 3G buss thats absolute MAX of 3G/S, and they don't even claim their drive can come close to saturating its buss. If it did the X25 would be the lowest thing on that graph at 3000.

The I7 motherboard memory is 28G/S

Do you see the 900 percent increase in speed between the two? NINE HUNDRED PERCENT FASTER! And cost for a I7 (920) with 24G onboard isnt a ton more then all these other solutions for a system that has NINE times the memory bandwidth speed. And again if you are only running 5 wow's you should be able to get by with 12G (barely).

And if you have a 64 bit operating system you won't "lose" yur system memory lol ...

Download sandra (FREE version) from
http://www.sisoftware.net/

Run the memory bandwidth test and you can see what your results are. (I'm between 10 and 11 G on my m2n32 vista with amd 6000 x2, which is better then anything on their graph cept the I7).

[Moorea]

Where is the iphone wow application from Feb 08 ?

Lol at "mousecloner" if it actually even works (anyone dare to try?) - the description is you enter X,Y coordinates (that the tool itself can't capture!) and it clicks those coordinates... woot; such advanced UI it's revolutionary... sounds like sending mousedown events... and you need to put coords yourself... awesome usability...

Real user quote: Moorea rocks -- Moorea

[Owltoid]

......Do you see the 900 percent increase in speed between the two? NINE HUNDRED PERCENT FASTER! And cost for a I7 (920) with 24G onboard isnt a ton more then all these other solutions for a system that has NINE times the memory bandwidth speed. And again if you are only running 5 wow's you should be able to get by with 12G (barely).....

Sam, my new rig won't arrive for about 3 weeks, unfortunately, but when it does if you tell me how to run the diagnostics I will.

Also, what did you mean by 5 WoW's barely able to get by?

[Sam DeathWalker]

Well the wow folder is up to about 8G now isnt it? It might be even more then that. Then the OS will be like 1G or so, then you need like 1/2G or so for each instance.

The 5 files in the Data folder are 7G themselves, but I bet 95 percent of the reading is those 5 files.

16G would really cover it well but thats not divisible by 3 I guess 18G is the sweet spot.

[aboron]

I think 18 is an impossible number since it would involve finding 3 or 6 Gig ram modules, which will not likely ever be made.

[Sam DeathWalker]

Ya what a problem ...

Well like I say you MIGHT get by with 12G, otherwise well go for 24G.

Ill bet you could just Put the Data Folder only (7G) in the Ram and cover 98percent plus of your reads. 3G for 5 wows is also good enough. I think 12 should cover it, not with much left but should do 99 percent of the job. I bet w7 probably has a smaller footprint then vista also.

Or just go for 24 then ...

If you decide on 12G then get the rampage board.

If only running 5 wows the difference between 12G and 24G will be hardly noticable, if you want 20 wows well then 24G is the way to go. And even with 20 wows this set up and 24G is going to have no problems I would bet. Except how to display them.

Again with 24G and 5 wows I doubt you will get more then a 1percent (if that) benifit over 12G. And the cost of that last 1percent is going to be a ton.

Ill be moving to this kind of set up at some point (probably after prices are about 1/2 of what they are now), unless AMD comes up with some similar memory buss.

[Sajuuk]

If you add the Wrath files to your data folder the size comes up to around 12.3Gb.

(Just thought I'd add that)

[Sam DeathWalker]

Ahh I don't have wotlk ...

Well in that case its 24G or nothing ....