Re: Planning to Build a New System
- From: Pecos <anortRemOveThIs&2on2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:13:19 -0500
The Mighty Favog <billanderson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:1184256787.904380.204690@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
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Processing video from avi to mpeg2 or whatever to author
a DVD does take a while. I sure would like to cut down time required
for that sort of process. I don't play video games anymore, but I
confess I'd like to have a system that is capable of running new high
definition games if I ever see some game I've just got to try. So
yeah, I have the itch to build a new system. And as I've always
favored Asus motherboards, unless somebody points out a good reason to
change loyalties, this one will be Asus too.
Here's what I'm running now:
(To be replaced)
Asus P4C800-E Deluxe mbo
Pentium 4 3.2 ghz
One gigabyte RAM
ATI All-in-Wonder 9600XT video card
Creative X-Fi sound card (P4C800E onboard sound died)
(To be kept)
ATI HDTV Wonder card
PCI Modem
Four 500 gigabyte SATA hard drives
Two IDE Plextor DVD burner optical drives
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Hi Bill,
In addition to the good advice from the others, I see an opportunity
overlooked. You sound like the perfect candidate for a RAID 0 (striped)
setup with at least two of the hard drives. Are the 500 GB drives all the
same make/model/rev? If so, you could gain almost double read/write speeds
to the disks using RAID 0. Your video 'scratch' files can be edited on the
RAID 0 volume and then saved to a redundant RAID 1 volume or one of the
stand-alone SATA drives. This is exactly the kind of task that RAID 0 was
designed for.
I have a brief RAID overview at:
http://www.pecos-softwareworks.com/foxconn_975x7ab-8ekrs2h.html#RAID
I know you want to go with ASUS, but you might want to look at the Foxconn.
It is an excellent high-end motherboard but a step down from the ASUS board
you have picked out.
Four drives will allow you to have both RAID 0 and RAID 1 or you can go
with only two drives using Intel Matrix RAID.
The motherboard you are considering, the ASUS P5K DELUXE/WIFI-AP has an
Intel ICH9R Southbridge. The R in the Southbridge name stands for RAID and
that chipset does support Intel Matrix RAID, which is a software based RAID
solution.
RAID isn't for everybody, but if you want speed, don't forget about all of
the reading and writing to the hard drives your video editing will be
doing.
If you do go with RAID, you will have to back up your data to create the
volumes and reload your operating systems. Creating RAID volumes using
Intel Matrix RAID is destructive and all data will be lost. When reloading
your operating systems start with the oldest OS first and progress to the
next oldest to keep the boot manager happy.
--
Alan Norton - Pecos SoftWareWorks
Review of Foxconn 975X7AB-8EKRS2H Mb, IT Articles
Read This Before Buying a Maxtor DiamondMax Hard Drive
http://www.pecos-softwareworks.com/
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