OCZ Intros RevoDrive 3 and X2 PCI-E SSDs

[exfileme]

OCZ has officially launched its RevoDrive 3 and RevoDrive 3 X2 PCI-Express SSDs.

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[DjEaZy]

... so what is next... ?

 

[schwiing]

I wonder what would happen if you put this SSD to 88mph

 

[Pyree]

^+1 razorburn. If money is not a problem, get several and raid0 it.

 

[x3style]

[citation][nom]razorburn[/nom]Another great addition to any Ultimate Gaming PC Builds..[/citation]
It would not make any sense to use it for a gaming rig.
Graphic stations that are used to process uncompressed video, Database servers.

 

[Guest]

Yes, but can it run Crysis?

 

[memadmax]

I'm gonna get one of these things so that my monitor will melt when I boot up windows =D

 

[memadmax]

Yea, actually this is prolly not too useful for a gaming rig. Once you get a game loaded up in 8.1 jigawatts, in most cases the game is hard drive idle, if you have the ram. But I don't see too many people running 512 megs of ram then throwing one of these things at their system just to speed up the swap file....

No, these cards would be very very useful in a busy database/web/file server.

 

[palladin9479]

Depends on the games you play. RPG's like Elder Scrolls and Fallout 3 could indeed use this card. These games data resources are in the 8GB+ range, and with the 1.8GB application memory limitation on 32-bit systems they must frequently load data from disk and hope windows filesystem caching picks up on it. If the application comes with a 64-bit executable then it can access a much larger application memory space, but it still must load all that data off the disk, and even then newer games have more resource data then you have available memory.

So basically, for console level ports this card is overkill, for PC titles then it's made of win.

 

[drwho1]

now just wait a few years for the 960GB to drop to $50 bucks

 

[thebigt42]

I am waiting for the RevoDrive hybrid speed and capacity

 

[macewrox]

After my past experiences with OCZ, I'll wait until I spend that much money on one of their products.

 

[Guest]

Streaming game engines take advantage of SSDs, stop saying SSDs only affect the initial loading of the game. You don't know what you're talking about.

 

[jacobdrj]

I want my IsoLinear chip!

 

[thebigt42]

[citation][nom]Pyree[/nom]^+1 razorburn. If money is not a problem, get several and raid0 it.[/citation]
Raid is already built into the card...Nothing would be gained.

 

[nebun]

[citation][nom]Pyree[/nom]^+1 razorburn. If money is not a problem, get several and raid0 it.[/citation]
lol, they are already configured in raid 0...

 

[Niva]

[citation][nom]thebigt42[/nom]Raid is already built into the card...Nothing would be gained.[/citation]

These things cannot be RAID-ed currently, probably won't ever be. These "drives" exchange information through the PCI bus with the rest of the system. RAID would require another controller to be placed between them and the system to actually do the RAID function... No such hardware exists at this moment.

 

[dalauder]

[citation][nom]Teholb[/nom]Streaming game engines take advantage of SSDs, stop saying SSDs only affect the initial loading of the game. You don't know what you're talking about.[/citation]I'd like to see a benchmark showing higher fps with SSDs (I could see it impacting min framerates). If it doesn't impact fps, then I can't say it impacts much.

 

[jacobdrj]

[citation][nom]dalauder[/nom]I'd like to see a benchmark showing higher fps with SSDs (I could see it impacting min framerates). If it doesn't impact fps, then I can't say it impacts much.[/citation]
Don't know about you, but load times between levels are a HUGE drag... This will help between maps in Heroes V...

 

[nebun]

[citation][nom]dalauder[/nom]I'd like to see a benchmark showing higher fps with SSDs (I could see it impacting min framerates). If it doesn't impact fps, then I can't say it impacts much.[/citation]
i agree with you....an SSD do not improve FPS....if they do is very small, maybe 1-2fps

 

[palladin9479]

I'd like to see a benchmark showing higher fps with SSDs (I could see it impacting min framerates). If it doesn't impact fps, then I can't say it impacts much.

By this reasoning a 5400 RPM economy HDD would do you just fine for your games, yet I hear all the gamers grunt at the idea of going back to that.

Stop using FPS as the game for everything, not every game is "generic military shooter #281", not every gamer enjoys playing a new version of "generic military shooter, call of duty 10" every year. There are games out there with resources bigger then the memory space available and thus they need to read different data sets as you play. "Loading Level" screens suck, especially if you need to run through three or four area's really fast. The second expansion of NWN2 was prime example of this, every single combat encounter was treated like a new level and the game had a "loading screen" every time, really slowed the gameplay down.

 

[dalauder]

[citation][nom]palladin9479[/nom]By this reasoning a 5400 RPM economy HDD would do you just fine for your games, yet I hear all the gamers grunt at the idea of going back to that.Stop using FPS as the game for everything, not every game is "generic military shooter #281", not every gamer enjoys playing a new version of "generic military shooter, call of duty 10" every year. There are games out there with resources bigger then the memory space available and thus they need to read different data sets as you play. "Loading Level" screens suck, especially if you need to run through three or four area's really fast. The second expansion of NWN2 was prime example of this, every single combat encounter was treated like a new level and the game had a "loading screen" every time, really slowed the gameplay down.[/citation]Brilliant use of taking something out of context.

Did you even read the comment I was responding to? Obviously you did not because the post stated that an SSD would help with more than load times. I merely asked for proof of what it helped other than load times--which I agree is a huge bonus and one of the reasons I run RAID 0.

You wrote quite a few words of trash talking when you didn't even know what you're responding to. Save everyone (including yourself) some trouble and read a full post before hitting "Reply".

 

[palladin9479]

Brilliant use of taking something out of context.

Did you even read the comment I was responding to? Obviously you did not because the post stated that an SSD would help with more than load times. I merely asked for proof of what it helped other than load times--which I agree is a huge bonus and one of the reasons I run RAID 0.

You wrote quite a few words of trash talking when you didn't even know what you're responding to. Save everyone (including yourself) some trouble and read a full post before hitting "Reply".

I did read the post and responded accordingly. Those games WILL stutter on an slow HDD and the actual FPS will go down. No benchmark will detect this as bench's tend to run loops of rebuilt level data, basically their running if from memory and not loading off disk. Go play Elder Scrolls IV on an old 5400 HDD, but with new GPU / CPU setup. You'll be running across the field and then it'll start stuttering as the game is trying to load the data for the area ahead of you. A few seconds later it'll clear up and the game will be running fine again. This stuttering is a known issue for games doing dynamic data loading, and yes your game suddenly freezing or running slowly / stuttering is definitely effecting your "FPS".

Now please remove your head from your fifth point of contact. We know exactly what you were trying to say, and now your venturing into butt hurt troll territory.