Well, if you can supply the memory for it, then I'm sure it'll be fast. The caveat here is that the total amount as a drive will be significantly less than 90% of the hard drives out on the market (including ebay'd ones). Even if you use leftover RAM, you probably won't be able to get a lot out of it in terms of space/capacity. With 4 DDR slots, the most common setup will likely be 1GB to 2GB in capacity. Getting new RAM is also out of the question. The cost per megabyte is so much higher than conventional hard drives that you're better off RAID-0'ing two 40GB drives instead.Computer_Guy wrote:
Hard drive, well not a hard drive. I heard you can install stuff on this and run the program and it will load in seconds. A Bf2 map will load in the blink of an eye. Its even faster than a raptor. Is it worth it.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6815168001
I just learned about it.
Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2006-05-03 01:54:01)
Interesting concept.UnOriginalNuttah wrote:
If I had the money right now:
I'd just use software deployment tools (you know, where you snapshot entire system before and after running installation, including registry and save the changes to a MSI) to create a bf2+patches+addons installation MSI, including registry changes and install that on a 8GB Ram drive... if the battery fails like people seem to imply it would just be a 10-20 minute job to redeploy. Loading would be sooooooo sooooo fast when you fired up BF2. It wouldn't even be funny. In fact, you'd probably get bored if you were on a playing as defender, just waiting for some attackers to finish loading
Only problem that I can see is I've just checked the max capacity and it's 4GB not nearly enough for BF2 + expansions + patches... you could just squeeze vanilla bf2+patches on though
I assume you mean Raid-0?EvilMonkeySlayer wrote:
Just get two SATA 2 drives in RAID-1, got that setup on my machine and i'm now the first to load on a map loading.
Ditto what other people have said, you're limited by how many dimms it can use plus the possibility of the battery running out. Plus there are the costs of the dimms, it's cheaper getting hard disks.
If you are used to a plain old IDE 7200rpm hard drive.....start with a raptor upgrade first.... I was SHOCKED at how much faster a single raptor (relatively empty and defragmented) loaded the game after I upgraded from an old drive. And that is not even RAID-0 which would be even faster (although not sure how much)....You can get 2 74g OEM Raptors for $140-150 each....plus the cost for the raid controler (not sure how much maybe $200) and be in it for $500 and have a ton more space and reliability. It all depends on what you are used to and what you are upgrading from.Computer_Guy wrote:
Hard drive, well not a hard drive. I heard you can install stuff on this and run the program and it will load in seconds. A Bf2 map will load in the blink of an eye. Its even faster than a raptor. Is it worth it.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6815168001
I just learned about it.
evil,EvilMonkeySlayer wrote:
Just get two SATA 2 drives in RAID-1, got that setup on my machine and i'm now the first to load on a map loading.
Ditto what other people have said, you're limited by how many dimms it can use plus the possibility of the battery running out. Plus there are the costs of the dimms, it's cheaper getting hard disks.
They are over-rated.Computer_Guy wrote:
Hard drive, well not a hard drive. I heard you can install stuff on this and run the program and it will load in seconds. A Bf2 map will load in the blink of an eye. Its even faster than a raptor. Is it worth it.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6815168001
I just learned about it.
Last edited by Viper007Bond (2006-05-03 17:54:21)
My Logitech G15 keyboard has a stopwatch program, i'll use that. Any particular maps you want me to load?slo5oh wrote:
evil,EvilMonkeySlayer wrote:
Just get two SATA 2 drives in RAID-1, got that setup on my machine and i'm now the first to load on a map loading.
Ditto what other people have said, you're limited by how many dimms it can use plus the possibility of the battery running out. Plus there are the costs of the dimms, it's cheaper getting hard disks.
I'd love to know how fast (do you have a stopwatch?) it takes you to load a map. I realize each map is a different size so you'd have to give the exact map and perhaps all info, such as what server, what your average ping is, etc.
The reason I ask is that I too am always (there might have been 1 time I was not) first to load into a map with my new rig. I'm only running a single 160 gig seagate drive. It is sata, but it's not sata II. I think, and I've read a few places that seem to agree, harddrive acess rate is less important in loading maps than processor power and available ram.
Last edited by EvilMonkeySlayer (2006-05-04 00:21:30)
Evil - have you had to disable one of the cores on that processor to play BF2? I have the same cpu, and have had to do that to get reliability.....but i know some people have not had to with x2....EvilMonkeySlayer wrote:
My Logitech G15 keyboard has a stopwatch program, i'll use that. Any particular maps you want me to load?slo5oh wrote:
evil,EvilMonkeySlayer wrote:
Just get two SATA 2 drives in RAID-1, got that setup on my machine and i'm now the first to load on a map loading.
Ditto what other people have said, you're limited by how many dimms it can use plus the possibility of the battery running out. Plus there are the costs of the dimms, it's cheaper getting hard disks.
I'd love to know how fast (do you have a stopwatch?) it takes you to load a map. I realize each map is a different size so you'd have to give the exact map and perhaps all info, such as what server, what your average ping is, etc.
The reason I ask is that I too am always (there might have been 1 time I was not) first to load into a map with my new rig. I'm only running a single 160 gig seagate drive. It is sata, but it's not sata II. I think, and I've read a few places that seem to agree, harddrive acess rate is less important in loading maps than processor power and available ram.
And from what point do you want me to load the map and start timing it (as well as what map)?
For example, I could create a local multiplayer game, that way nothing is reliant on external factors.
EDIT: My hardware specs;
Athlon 64 X2 4800+
Lanparty UT NF4 SLI-D
2x 1GB OCZ Gold RAM (PC-4000)
2x Maxtor 6V160E0 160GB SATA300 7200rpm 8MB Cache (the two drives in RAID-1)
Sapphire Radeon 512MB X1900XTX (I originally had a BFG 512MB GeForce 7900GTX OC, but it was faulty)
Unfortunately I haven't managed to get much playing time with BF2 as well as other games because of graphics card problems.Tunacommy wrote:
Evil - have you had to disable one of the cores on that processor to play BF2? I have the same cpu, and have had to do that to get reliability.....but i know some people have not had to with x2....EvilMonkeySlayer wrote:
My Logitech G15 keyboard has a stopwatch program, i'll use that. Any particular maps you want me to load?slo5oh wrote:
evil,
I'd love to know how fast (do you have a stopwatch?) it takes you to load a map. I realize each map is a different size so you'd have to give the exact map and perhaps all info, such as what server, what your average ping is, etc.
The reason I ask is that I too am always (there might have been 1 time I was not) first to load into a map with my new rig. I'm only running a single 160 gig seagate drive. It is sata, but it's not sata II. I think, and I've read a few places that seem to agree, harddrive acess rate is less important in loading maps than processor power and available ram.
And from what point do you want me to load the map and start timing it (as well as what map)?
For example, I could create a local multiplayer game, that way nothing is reliant on external factors.
EDIT: My hardware specs;
Athlon 64 X2 4800+
Lanparty UT NF4 SLI-D
2x 1GB OCZ Gold RAM (PC-4000)
2x Maxtor 6V160E0 160GB SATA300 7200rpm 8MB Cache (the two drives in RAID-1)
Sapphire Radeon 512MB X1900XTX (I originally had a BFG 512MB GeForce 7900GTX OC, but it was faulty)
Last edited by Tunacommy (2006-05-05 07:43:43)
Don't worry about being super "test lab". Just whatever server you decide on playing that day, once you're in and playing the first time the map is reloaded click your stopwatch the moment the bar the bottom shows up. Note what server you're on, what map you were on, and what map loaded. I'd say that's the best bet. I play a lot of karkand only servers so reloading the map should always be the same amount of time (same for any "24/7" server). I think I'll just add you into my "leader list" and try jumping into one of your games with you and so long as we're on the same team it should be easy to see who gets in first (unless we both get in at the same time).EvilMonkeySlayer wrote:
My Logitech G15 keyboard has a stopwatch program, i'll use that. Any particular maps you want me to load?slo5oh wrote:
evil,EvilMonkeySlayer wrote:
Just get two SATA 2 drives in RAID-1, got that setup on my machine and i'm now the first to load on a map loading.
Ditto what other people have said, you're limited by how many dimms it can use plus the possibility of the battery running out. Plus there are the costs of the dimms, it's cheaper getting hard disks.
I'd love to know how fast (do you have a stopwatch?) it takes you to load a map. I realize each map is a different size so you'd have to give the exact map and perhaps all info, such as what server, what your average ping is, etc.
The reason I ask is that I too am always (there might have been 1 time I was not) first to load into a map with my new rig. I'm only running a single 160 gig seagate drive. It is sata, but it's not sata II. I think, and I've read a few places that seem to agree, harddrive acess rate is less important in loading maps than processor power and available ram.
And from what point do you want me to load the map and start timing it (as well as what map)?
For example, I could create a local multiplayer game, that way nothing is reliant on external factors.
EDIT: My hardware specs;
Athlon 64 X2 4800+
Lanparty UT NF4 SLI-D
2x 1GB OCZ Gold RAM (PC-4000)
2x Maxtor 6V160E0 160GB SATA300 7200rpm 8MB Cache (the two drives in RAID-1)
Sapphire Radeon 512MB X1900XTX (I originally had a BFG 512MB GeForce 7900GTX OC, but it was faulty)
i have an fx-60 and i didnt have to disable one of the cores to play BF2Tunacommy wrote:
Evil - have you had to disable one of the cores on that processor to play BF2? I have the same cpu, and have had to do that to get reliability.....but i know some people have not had to with x2....