RAID 0 and video questions

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   Happy Friday- 

I was wondering if someone could shed some light on some RAID-0 and a SLI/Xfire questions I have. First off, I was wondering if there is any benefit from assembling not 2, but 3 Intel 80g SSDs in RAID. I expect there would be a performance increase but as I'm not too familiar with RAID I would like someone else's input. Would I reach a bottleneck with the SATA bus? Would the performance increase from 2 to 3 be so negligible that no human could even tell? Do you enter the realm of "It's better than yours just because it has 3" without having any benefit?

Secondly, I currently have a 26.5" Samsung display that I use. I am planning on taking a step up to a monitor that can display 2560x1600 (say good bye to 4xAA). With such a high resolution would I be better off Xfire'ing 5970's or potentially Tri-SLI'ing 480's (if I'm not mistaking the price is somewhat comparable ~$300).

And lasty (I know this is getting wordy), does anyone have a good recommendation for a 30"ish monitor that I would use obviously to achieve 2560x1600. I've been shopping around for a few weeks and have seen nothing but mixed reviews.

Thanks for your time. 

Edited by Aroberts0820 - 30 Jul 2010 at 7:23pm

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Aroberts0820 Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 28 Jul 2010 Online Status: Offline Posts: 69	Quote Reply Topic: RAID 0 and video questions Posted: 30 Jul 2010 at 4:28pm
	Happy Friday- I was wondering if someone could shed some light on some RAID-0 and a SLI/Xfire questions I have. First off, I was wondering if there is any benefit from assembling not 2, but 3 Intel 80g SSDs in RAID. I expect there would be a performance increase but as I'm not too familiar with RAID I would like someone else's input. Would I reach a bottleneck with the SATA bus? Would the performance increase from 2 to 3 be so negligible that no human could even tell? Do you enter the realm of "It's better than yours just because it has 3" without having any benefit? Secondly, I currently have a 26.5" Samsung display that I use. I am planning on taking a step up to a monitor that can display 2560x1600 (say good bye to 4xAA). With such a high resolution would I be better off Xfire'ing 5970's or potentially Tri-SLI'ing 480's (if I'm not mistaking the price is somewhat comparable ~$300). And lasty (I know this is getting wordy), does anyone have a good recommendation for a 30"ish monitor that I would use obviously to achieve 2560x1600. I've been shopping around for a few weeks and have seen nothing but mixed reviews. Thanks for your time. Edited by Aroberts0820 - 30 Jul 2010 at 7:23pm

Aroberts0820 Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 28 Jul 2010 Online Status: Offline Posts: 69	Quote Reply Posted: 30 Jul 2010 at 8:57pm
	And while I'm at it, does anyone have any idea of the what the maintanence looks like for the LC systems?

justin.kerr Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List DS Veteran Joined: 06 May 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 5084	Quote Reply Posted: 30 Jul 2010 at 9:39pm
	For SSD I would go with the Intel 160Gb, and if that was not enough capacity, RAID 0 them. RAID 0 will help in the transfer of larger files, but not so much on smaller files. Also with RAID you lose the TRIM function, not a big deal, but just thought I wuld let you know. If you want a 30" monitor, most all are pretty good.. lol for $1,000-1,300 they should be. The Dells are nice, I run the HP 3065, and like it very much for gaming. For GPU's, 2 GTX 480's would be the minimum, and 3 GTX 480's would be good as you can get right now.. 2 5970's will not game as well as 3 5870's.

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