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Raid question and my bottleneck

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#1 ·
Ok hey I know I all ready posted this Question But this one is allittle different I am buying parts for the Computer I am looking to build But for the time being I want to use the Graphics card I bought so here are my Specs

5400 RPM 640 GB Harddrive (Not in raid)
5400 RPM 1TB Green drive

AMD phenom quad core 9650
GTX 460 Cyclone
800 watt PSU
I have to stock motherboard to the computer here is the website http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...c=en&cc=us#N94

Now here are my questions

I want to run raid 0 with my 2 hdd to increase the speed but I want to know if it will erase the stuff I have saved on those Harddrives.

Also Do I have a bottleneck if I do how big is that?

Thanks for your help.
 
#2 ·
Yes, you have a bottleneck - CPU too slow for GTX 460.
Yes, you'll have to reformat your drives in order to set Hardware Raid.
You can set Software RAID with lower performance, but you'll be able to keep a partition intact.
 
#4 ·
Depends on the game engine, but many games will not be able to reach 60fps with all the effects turned on with that CPU.
As for RAID0, the fact the two hard drives are so different is going to detriment performance. That combined with the overhead would make the RAID0 a PITA for little to no IO performance gain. I would say completely not worth it, esp if your goal is for gaming.
 
#5 ·
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Originally Posted by liljoey112;14438214
Will that bottle neck be huge proformance dip.
Yes, the 460 is a very capable GPU, and the Phenom I is old architecture and low clock (2.3Ghz), so getting a cheap AM3 mobo + Athlon II x3 or x4 can go as far as double your FPS.
 
#6 ·
What is your motherboard? It may be able to simply take on an AM3 CPU. You can upgrade to a decent AMD x3 for as low as $60 and x4 for as low as $90.