Ok, I have another question about the 6000 series, I have a 5770 at the moment, so should I buy another 5770 and Crossfire or just buy 1 6870?

[QUOTE="oOiRuL3zOo"][QUOTE="SoraX64"]How's this look?hartsickdiscipl

It depends on what kind of GPUs you put in that rig. This article shows that an x4 slot only slows down a 5870 by 5 to 8%.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/HD_5870_PCI-Express_Scaling/

I think one of these budget Crossfire mobos with the 2nd x4 slot would be great for a pair of 6850's.

Drives are so fast now I wouldn't worry about it.

If you have the cash, and really want the performance, get an SSD.

NailedGR

[QUOTE="oOiRuL3zOo"][QUOTE="NailedGR"]

It is pretty easy.

It is at least 2x as expensive to set up than a single harddrive though, because you need at least 2.

Here is a video of 24 SSD's working in a raid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96dWOEa4Djs

NailedGR

Every raid array I've seen all the drive were identical.

Would it be worth it to buy myself another 1TB HDD then? it only cost £45 which isn't bad but is it worth the time and money?

[QUOTE="oOiRuL3zOo"][QUOTE="hartsickdiscipl"]

It depends on what kind of GPUs you put in that rig. This article shows that an x4 slot only slows down a 5870 by 5 to 8%.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/HD_5870_PCI-Express_Scaling/

I think one of these budget Crossfire mobos with the 2nd x4 slot would be great for a pair of 6850's.

hartsickdiscipl

I wouldn't crossfire 2 cards that are any faster than a 6850 in a board with an x4 slot as the secondary. Yes, I know the 2nd PCI-E slot is a full-length slot, but running at x4 speed. My motherboard has the same. Since the 6870 is only a bit slower than a 5870, and we can see the 5870 losing a bit of performance over the x4 bus, I'd have to assume that the 6870 would lose a similar percentage of performance. The 6850 seems to fall right on the line where you wouldn't lose much performance. That's just my interpretation of the numbers. If I were going to buy a pair of 6870's ($240 US each), I'd probably get a motherboard that would run both cards at either x8 or x16.

Once again, that's just what I would do. I'm sure the x4 slot won't be a massive bottleneck to the 6870's.

It is pretty easy.

It is at least 2x as expensive to set up than a single harddrive though, because you need at least 2.

Here is a video of 24 SSD's working in a raid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96dWOEa4Djs

NailedGR

Raid stands for

Rapid Array of Inexpensive Disks

Basically there are different RAID types, 0, 1, 1+0, 5, JBOD

It is different ways of setting up harddrives.

Most servers are set up using RAID 5.

I forget which one, but either 1 or 0 is mirror and that makes an exact copy of what disk you already have and then the one that isn't mirroring creates 1 disk that works faster out of 2 disks.

NailedGR

[QUOTE="oOiRuL3zOo"][QUOTE="SoraX64"]How's this look?hartsickdiscipl

It depends on what kind of GPUs you put in that rig. This article shows that an x4 slot only slows down a 5870 by 5 to 8%.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/HD_5870_PCI-Express_Scaling/

I think one of these budget Crossfire mobos with the 2nd x4 slot would be great for a pair of 6850's.

Ok, so I have been wondering this for a long time but it seems so complicated, will some please tell me what RAID is in the simplest way they can? Thanks :).

How's this look?SoraX64