I wanted it for VR, but Quake 2 RTX is going to be the first thing I play on it. It looks fantastic, and I will let you all know how it performs. Crap, I should set up another Q2 server so that we can schedule a little play time.

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The game is gorgeous. Just amazing.

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The motherboard had 6 SATA slots, which were filled with 5 Samsung Pro 256GB SSD's in a Raid 5 striped array, and then a 4GB data drive. (for now...)

It's difficult to buy RTX GPU's, so the only option I had was to buy a pre-built machine. I made sure that it had the proper "bones", i.e. the case, motherboard, CPU, and GPU were what I wanted.

Now I will be adding 128GB of ram. 2 sticks of 32GB DDR4-3600 are coming on Monday, and I will buy an identical two sticks in a couple of months. I will set up Ramdisk to create a 64GB disk drive in ram, and use 64GB for the system.

I've always wanted to load games on a ram drive and run things from there. It will be hundreds of times faster than SSD's, and the drive image will be stored on the array. Because Ramdisk continually backs up the drive, nothing is lost.

This has been a fun project so far. Anyone want to buy an Intel i7-4770k, two GTX770's in SLI, 32GB ram, 512GB Samsung SSD machine?

*<;o)

[ 11-13-2021: Message edited by: Oicu812 ]

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Did you get HDR monitors? You need some HDR monitors. I have some HDR monitors on a similar setup, and there's no going back. HDR monitors.

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Here are the results from various drives:

First up, I tested an old USB 2.0 30GB thumb drive on the new system: 26MB per second.

The next drive up is a new USB2 1TB stick, which is worse than the older one above: 23MB PS.

Next in line is the 4TB hard drive: 128MB PS.

Now here comes some better speed. The M.2 NVMe drive that came with the system: 2,447MB PS.

Here are the numbers for the SSD raid 5 array. This is made up of 5 Samsung 850 Pro SSD's (a gift from an online friend!) Better than the M.2 NVME, but not by a whole lot: 2,615MB PS.

Now, as a real world test, I copied an 80GB file from the M.2 NVME drive to the raid array: 1GB PS sustained speed! Nice!

Now comes the biggest, baddest disk transfer speeds I have ever seen! I created an 80GB RamDrive: 14,414MB PS!!!

14.5GB per second??? Monstrous!

I'm running Half Life 2 from this drive, attaining 700+ FPS with every graphics setting as high as possible. Level changes are instantaneous.

[ 12-14-2021: Message edited by: Oicu812 ]

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