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Question of the Day: What's the most interesting small town you've visited in South Africa?
Hmmmmmmmmmmm?
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Nerfherder
Honorary Master
Thats what I paid
spiderz
Honorary Master
Pcint.co.za
R1539 (ex Vat) for a Q6600
R1539 (ex Vat) for a Q6600
+1 to PcInt, got my router there. Good prices good service
would be close to that price after the vat is added , was not going to buy , whats a xtreamely good processor for about R3000 And bellow , it must be fast , i know quad core etc , i used the q6600 and its just not fast enough for me
scotty777
...doesn't know
um, if it was like R100 and came out of a messed up car, then it would be time to question, but this, just think of it as a good deal
Praeses
Executive Member
Q9300? ~R2700
Hows That Compared To The Q6600?
Praeses
Executive Member
Smaller transistors, higher front side bus and 100MHz more clockspeed. 2MB less cache though. http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core2quad-q9300_4.html
im looking for something to speed up my file transfers etc alot as i transfer like 60gig to 1 hard drive from another etc
Praeses
Executive Member
Buy a dedicated RAID controller and two 7200.11 model seagate hard drives (500GB, 750GB, 1TB or 1.5TB) and put them in RAID 0. Even one of them would do the trick. They peak at 110MB/s. There won't really be much of a difference between Q6600 and Q9300 transfer speeds unless you bought a new motherboard with better SATA controllers.
If you're copying to another hard drive, eg external, the external drive will be limiting the speed.
Messugga
Honorary Master
Agreed. The last thing limiting you there, is the CPU. Get a proper RAID controller and some good quality drives and stick them in RAID0. Since we don't know exactly how your setup works(external drive? Internal drive that you swap with another one, every now and then? etc.) it's difficult to comment on a way to optimize it.
killadoob
Honorary Master
You don't need a raid controller, your mobo should have raid just use 2 of the exact same hdd's.
Messugga
Honorary Master
I find that the RAID on most motherboards, is rubbish compared to a separate controller, especially when you start having lots of traffic between several drives, at the same time.
Have to agree, onboard RAID isn't as good and a controller card isn't expensive unless you go for the high end though the onboard can still help. Also you don't have to use 2 identical hard drives, though it is better to.