Any PC Gamers Around?

[sqd]

Originally Posted by jasonojordan

I have a single g1 gamer version of the card you have. Really nice card. How do you like them in sli been considering getting a 2nd one?

It's been working quite well actually, they scale great. Obviously not all games have SLI supported drivers on launch, but it usually doesn't take long for Nvidia to update.

[jasonojordan]

Cool deal. There are a couple people local to me selling used gigabyte tri fan gtx970's so maybe Ill just have to pick up a 2nd one.

[Ashikabi]

Originally Posted by jasonojordan

Cool deal. There are a couple people local to me selling used gigabyte tri fan gtx970's so maybe Ill just have to pick up a 2nd one.

Be aware those don't fit in all cases. They are longer by 1 inch? Maybe 2. Great cards though

[jasonojordan]

I already have one. Fits good. I have a pretty large case. Thanks for the heads up though!




Case I have. http://www.microcenter.com/product/4...r_Case_-_Black

[Ashikabi]

Originally Posted by jasonojordan

I already have one. Fits good. I have a pretty large case. Thanks for the heads up though!

Np

[sqd]

This is how mine looks, nothing special though.

[jasonojordan]

When I upgraded to intel I just dropped it all in and got it running I need to go back and tidy up all my wires again.

[Ashikabi]

Originally Posted by sqd

This is how mine looks, nothing special though.

Why so many hard drives?

[Andrew025]

Originally Posted by Ashikabi

Why so many hard drives?

I'm gonna assume a RAID setup... Or likes to have many backups...

[Ashikabi]

Originally Posted by Andrew025

I'm gonna assume a RAID setup... Or likes to have many backups...

But we have SSDs now and multi terabyte HDDs... what benefit does raid give you anymore

[sqd]

Originally Posted by Ashikabi

But we have SSDs now and multi terabyte HDDs... what benefit does raid give you anymore

Haha, I have one less now since two of those were two old 500gb disks I just kept around. Replaced them both with a 3TB drive though, so now I have 7TB storage..

I may not use all that space right now, but more than half of it. I'm a photographer and graphic designer, so my RAW photo files take up something like 600 gigs. My source files for design work, PSDs, EPS/Ai etc is close to 200Gb. Then I have a few games installed, my Steam account has over 270 games on it, though I only keep a handful installed at any time, it takes up PLENTY of space. I also like to keep movies I've downloaded that I like, and I only download 1080p bluray releases which are between 10-15 Gb each, so there's a couple of hundred gigs right there..

Aaaand I've also done some movie production (like filming drifting events etc), so I keep all those source files too. Believe me, it all adds up to a lot of space.

[Andrew025]

Originally Posted by Ashikabi

But we have SSDs now and multi terabyte HDDs... what benefit does raid give you anymore

I would only do it in a RAID 1 set up probably.

[jasonojordan]

I have my 2 SSD in raid0 because racecar. But then again I have a file server in the garage to store my files and host teamspeak,7days to die,terria, and minecraft servers.

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Ashikabi

But we have SSDs now and multi terabyte HDDs... what benefit does raid give you anymore

Same advantage it always has given you. Any single drive can fail, SSD or not. Admittedly for home use it is easier to just keep multiple copies rather than the expense of a RAID. You can also do a cloud copy pretty cheaply.

I have several terrabytes of photos/home videos/music collection etc backed up to Amazon as part of their Amazon Prime extended service. Cheap insurance and the data doesn't change for the most part so bandwidth utilization is pretty minimal once you get it up there the first time.