Jonno

lol you said anal! :dance:

You took the words right out of my pants.

Very nice :) I bought one of these brand new in 1993. One of the most entertaining cars you can own.

Good luck :)

Don't take this the wrong way BUT: If you love her and you want to be with her and it's upsetting you to leave her but you're going to leave her in case you're missing out on something better: You're an idiot :(

Bring me back some of those Chinese Whispers I hear so much about. Good luck! Jonno.

If you do decide to go down the raid route with this board, don't install the nvidia storage controller driver when you install the nforce 4 chipset drivers. The nforce4 chipset with the nvidia storage controller driver is well documented for corrupting data on raid arrays. I've got the SE deluxe version of the same board in a couple of boxes and have used both drivers. The windows ones are great if not slightly slower. The nvidia ones? lol!

You would have more than one for performance. On paper the motherboard can write to the individual SATA controllers simultaneously. Therefore if you have 2 HDs in a RAID0 stripe, half the data gets written to one drive and half the data gets written, simultaneously, to the other HD. Effectively halving the read/write times. Of course in practice it's not that efficient but it is a big improvement over a single HD.

If he's after performance why would he stripe the drives only to then mirror the drives? Isn't that like putting your foot down but leaving your hand brake half on just in case? ;) If the datas critical, back it up. Leave the redundant arrays to file servers. I've got a pair of the raptors in my rig and I run them in Raid0. They really are very quick. I've two identical game rigs however one has raptors in raid0 and the other has diamondmax10s in a raid0 config and the load time for maps on BF2142 is about 15 seconds difference. I'd stick another gig of ram in your PC though if your HD is slowing your rig down. You're probably running out of RAM and caching off to the HDs. I'd do this whether you move to raptors or not.

lol

Sunlight takes like 9 minutes to get here? HOW SLOW?! Paint it red and it would be here yesterday baby! :dance:

Sounds like you've fu#'ed it. I told you to paint it red! What's all this about drilling it? No More Nails is your friend.

They should arm us all. Survival of the fittest!

Your car may handle like one but this is NOT a car! WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Red is fastest colour. This is why Ferrari and Lamborghini loved to knock out red cars in the glory days. I appreciate we can't all be astrophysicists but in a nutshell it's to do with the wavelength of red light and how the photons create a micromolecular vacuum around the vehicle reducing the coefficient drag to zero. It's very technical but then I do have a brain the size of a planet. If you're looking for a spoiler to create down force I would suggest a concrete drain channel from your local builders merchant. It has that Mad Max feel and will pull the front of your car down onto the tarmac. You will of course need to paint it red. If you buy the right boost controller and some really nice chips, you know the ones that are quite floppy but not too greasy, you should be able to beat every car on the road (except mine). You might need to paint the chips red. HTH.

I BEG YOUR PARDON! :eek:

Isn't that an Elton John song? "and I'm gonna be high as a kite, on a stolen motorbike.....and I know it's gonna be a long long time....."

10%?! That's worth knowing. :(

Yes, yes it is! :dance:

I'd put a claim in on the small claims track. A solicitor is just going to cost you money which you won't be able to claim back from the guy. Then get Uno to send Papa Lazaru round to negotiate with his army of wives and peg bag.

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Ah yes! I thought they were called 'mags'.

Ah well if someone told you to do it... lol :)