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  1. 05-11-2002, 06:18 PM #1
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    Raid 0 for gaming?

    I recently set up a raid 0 array for my 2 maxtor drives. Thing is, whenever I run games I get consistent pauses where it seems like the hd is reading textures or something. It happens in every game. At first I thought it was my fsb, but when I downclocked it, the same thing kept happening. Should I just ditch the whole array idea altogether?
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    RAID 0 ROCKS!!! i dunno why the stuff is happening to you...put it down to regular speed...does that stuff still happen?
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  3. 05-12-2002, 03:28 PM #3
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    Yeah, I went back to stock speeds and the same thing kept happening to me... Oh well, I dropped the whole raid setup.
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  4. 05-13-2002, 07:29 PM #4
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    You are probably overwhelming your pci bus. Hence the pausing while it reads from the drive. You can set the pci useage to around 50 percent and this might help.

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