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I would say that SATA RAID0 in whatever drive model would definately have to be a must. As for the rest...I think you can go pretty much high end on everything and still be smoking fast in a year or 2 (although, not the "best of the best" in 2 years...still respectable.) Be sure to buy upgradable board and RAM (C2D to Quad or more; have to look hard) but future proof as much as possible. RAID and drives can easily be used in an upgrade system.

Yes; future-proof is good, and I recommend RAID 0 highly as well. Keep in mind that you can RAID 0 more than 2 drives. Personally, I'd go with 4 15k 36GB SAS drives for the most throughput.

15k drives...mmmmm....nice. Is that a 747 taking off...or is it just my SCSI drives spinning up?!?

lol. Indeed. they're not at all quiet.

I had one of the first 10k SCSI drives, and I tell you, once you turned it off it was like leaving the club. It was like, "Wow. It's quiet...."

I have a WD Raptor...it runs great and I love it, but man...that sucker makes some noise; has since day one and that was 2 years ago...

Did the original poster Disappear?

I think his brain crawled out his colon when he tried to read this thread...
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smells like hoax... probably a bet on how many pages this thread would last

LET'S HOPE A LOT OF MONEY WAS ON 7 BECAUSE THIS PAGE IS GOING TO EIGHT!!!! HELL YEAH!




Sorry.
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Meow... you guys are boring me with all this nonsense. This man CLEARLY needs to get a cell processor-based computer with a built-in sandwich maker![/u][/i]

As a side question, how are you "in your bunghole"? Did you sortof fold up or what?


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That... is a family secret... that I cannot reveal *assumes dramatic pose*

Yeah, I just included a picture of that "dramatic pose" in my last post.
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go ahead throw in a PHYSX CARD!!!

hey, i am sick so i thought of making some research 4 u..This is wat i came up wid m8..beleive it's d best:

Intel Xeon 5160 Passive Socket 771, Woodcrest Core, 3.0GHz , 4MB Cache
Intel Xeon 5160 Passive Socket 771, Woodcrest Core, 3.0GHz , 4MB Cache
Supermicro X7DA8 i5000x
768Mb XFX 8800GTX Extreme XXX(single: as i couldt find any xeon mobos wid 2 PCI-E (slots))
150 Gb Western Digital WD1500AHFD Raptor X
150 Gb Western Digital WD1500AHFD Raptor X
750 Gb Seagate ST3750640AS Barracuda 7200.10
2GB (2x1GB) Corsair TwinX DDR2 XMS2 Dominator PC2-10000 CAS 5-5-5-18
2GB (2x1GB) Corsair TwinX DDR2 XMS2 Dominator PC2-10000 CAS 5-5-5-18
1100W Tagan Quad SLi V2 Quiet
Lian Li PC-A10B Aluminium Full-Tower - Black
Plextor PX-760SA SATA Black 18x18 DVD±RW
Samsung SH-S183A/BEBN Black SATA 18x18 ±R
ATEC/LG.Philips AV320D 32" LCD HDTV
Logitech G15 Gaming-Grade Illuminated Keyboard
Logitech Cordless G7 Gaming-Grade Laser Mouse
Logitech Z-5450 THX® Certified 5.1 315 Watts Wireless Speakers
Hauppauge WinTV HVR-4000 Freeview/Digital Satellite TV Tuner
BFG Ageia PhysX Accelerator


$10,000