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Re: nerdo poll: ATi vs nVida

Tue, 09 March 2004 12:24

Nark wrote on Tue, 09 March 2004 21:25

Two 4GHz CPUs won't equal an 8GHz CPU. There are many factors that come into it like memory bandwidth.

And, yes, I have expensive tastes. Sad

My b0x3n cost me shitloads. Sad

But it's got really fast I/O! Smile

I have a SATA drive, but there's no way it can match the 10,000rpm Ultra160s... Not even close, especially when it comes to CPU usage.
I can burn a CD with 0 CPU load. Smile

Yep, that and the CPU bus, but that's also depending on architecture, but anyway...

... Yea, no denying the SCSI has the I/O, but it does have the cost as you know. Wink

I still don't think the SATA is too bad considering what I paid for it. Smile

But what about the 10k raptors? Those are supposed to be nice.

Have you also seen lately they are moving to SFF servers? I forget which manufacturer it was now off the top of my head, but they are making servers with huge capacity 15k rpm 2.5" drives. Yea, laptop drives. I always knew that would be the next "evolution", (that we'd all be moving to 2.5" drives), but it's pretty cool when it does happen. Smile

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do you really need a notebook? it will be second rate to almost anything desktop and cost more..

A year ago I would have agreed, but now I don't.

Prices have come down, and frankly, for $2500-3000, I could buy a fully loaded (3.2ghz p4, 512meg ram, dvd burner, 7500rpm drive, 64/128meg video, etc etc) laptop. And it's better than my desktop, except for storage, but you get the point. Smile

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