Hey flipper, thanks for the advice!
Actually, I was just over at Toms Hardware listening to him say the same thing about SCSI's , he was talking about the new WD 120Gig JB, the new drive that pops the cache from 2 meg to 8. Even without ATA133, the speeds are comparable to SCSI seek times. Throw DMA into the mix and reduce the CPU drag, and you have a really fast IDE solution. I wanted to do RAID just so I had some intregrity, I run a few databases and webservers off this machine, so having everything mirrored is nice (Nothing that good backups wont cover though) . Then again, the performace boost outta striping is nice too.. Decisions, decisions.. Plus I have one of the promise pci raid cards laying around (probably wont use it though as its only ATA66)
Glad to hear some good experiences with the MP chips, been hoping that architecture would pan out, I really hate having to look to overpriced Xeon chips as my only route for a decent multiprocessor system.
Funny you mention wine, i was just at their website today looking at the changelog on their newest release. Looking at the games/apps theyve gotten to work under it, it's almost worthwhile to go ahead and get a better video card!
Thanks again!
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