i7 Processor?

[danielbriggs]

That is what they were doing in the video!!!!

[White-Light]

That is what they were doing in the video!!!!

You're right I paused the video to check out the specs - Adaptec Raid controller 8 channel and Areca 16 channel. Shows what you can get though 2GB/s. Wonder how many drives is needed to achieve something like that, the full 6TB's worth or if you can get close with less.

[Astroguy]

I just got a new i7 920 with the new ASUS P6X58D Premium mother board running at 4 GHz water cooled and 6 Gigs of of triple channel Corsair Dominator memory running at 1600. I love it wish I had a SSD. The hard drive is the only bottle neck.

[hobbybob]

The Areca rocks, i have the 1230. It's a 12 channel, i have connected 12x a 1TB drive.
Total diskspace 11TB. Performance is 900MB/s read and over 624MB/s write.
I looooove it.

But an Areca with SSD's, is a whole other story, i almost bought a second Areca 8 channel just for that. But then i ended up with the Laser virus and all my money flowed into the photongenerators ;-)

[drlava]

Beware counterfeit boxed 920 processors have been going around, some even from Newegg before they caught it. The fake units have a molded plastic "heatink" blob with a sticker photo of what the heatsink should look like through the box window. Processor is a pressed tin/pcb fake as well, just to look good enough from the box windows.
this looks suspicious:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=110504658536

[tocket]

I just noticed that the new hex core i7 980X is set to launch soon, probably even next week. Time to upgrade this i7 920 workstation

Going from 4 cores @ 2.66 GHz to 6 cores @ 3.3 GHz should give a nice performance boost. Do I need it? Well, I do a lot of these:

Job cpu time: 1 days 19 hours 43 minutes 33.3 seconds.
File lengths (MBytes): RWF= 235 Int= 0 D2E= 0 Chk= 31 Scr= 1
Normal termination of Gaussian 03 at Wed Mar 10 15:18:59 2010.

[drlava]

Going from 4 cores @ 2.66 GHz to 4 cores @ 4 GHz might give a better performance boost on most apps. Consider overclocking and adding a better heatsink before spening the $ on a new CPU!

[tocket]

I had it running rock solid 24/7 at 3.5 GHz for a year, but after some recent stability issues I decided to clock it down to stock speed. These issues later turned out to be completely unrelated to the overclock, but I have kept it at stock since.

I figure that after a year of hard work it deserves a vacation. It's been at 70-80°C for a couple of months now, even though I have a pretty serious heat sink for it (Noctua NH-U12). I need another computer anyway, since I am tired of using linux. The old 920 will go into my new windows workstation.

Besides, performance scales rather linearly with the number of cores used for my calculations. At least up to 4 cores.