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    Worse gaming performance with RAID?

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by psycroptik, May 9, 2008.

  1. psycroptik

    psycroptik Notebook Consultant

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    So I am doing some tests with different RAID set ups and its not good...
    I did a ghost image of my disk when it was installed on a single HD, 3dmark = 13,096, 34fps average in crysis timedemo. Now the same image is on a RAID 0 array and I only pull 12,559 and 31fps.

    F'ing strange...
    Gonna mess with it some more... Drop the array, re-image a single disk and see if it goes back to a better score..
     
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  2. Audigy

    Audigy Notebook Evangelist

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    Remember that RAID uses a % of your CPU, specially on Intel integrated ones.

    Thats why the dedicated RAID chips like Promise and SiliconImage are better... they have oncore processing that reduces the need for using the system CPU to process the RAID logic.

    ;)
     
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  3. itsthemechanic

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    I have terrible gaming experiences with RAIDs. There is always somebody going ninja /afk, stealing all the lewts, or being obnoxious / emo on teamspeak.
     
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  4. Gophn

    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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    I game on RAID-1... fine with me. :)

    I make sure to optimize my OS to kill all resource hogs.
     
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  5. The_Observer

    The_Observer 9262 is the best:)

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    Is it hardware or software RAID?if it's software it's the CPU that need xtra calculations slowing it down.
     
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  6. ARGH

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    the d900c has hardware raid

    raid has nothing to do with fps in games.....
     
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    might be something to do with using a ghost image which means that windows has to add the raid stuff at the end (as it still usually does even with hardware raid)
    that would mean the o/s doesnt install optimally across the drives
     
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  8. psycroptik

    psycroptik Notebook Consultant

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    same image - single disk 12,595 - 12,619
    Thats the difference I could image... If any using raid.

    I guess something happened to the initial image to decrease my scores.
    Lets try this again...
     
    psycroptik, May 10, 2008
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  9. theriko

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    I don't see why raid would affect 3dmark at all, it'd make load times faster but 3dm only tests your cpu and gfx card... Although it certainly shouldn't make it slower
     
    theriko, May 10, 2008
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    Welcome to the world of laptops where anything can go wrong :)
     
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  11. lastrebelstanding

    lastrebelstanding Notebook Evangelist

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    Why don't you do some hd benchmarking.
    Calculating FPS and doing graphic intensive benchmarks isn't going to help you here.
    Try HD-Tune and test your Raid performance that way.
     
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  12. psycroptik

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    Computers. Nothing makes sense..
     
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  13. psycroptik

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    Oh I know, the raid works fine. I am just trying to figure out how I lost 4fps and 500 points in 3dmark by using ghost software. I want to go up in performance not down ;)
     
    psycroptik, May 10, 2008
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