Raptor gets what - Windows Experience?

[mtekk]

That makes sense. There has been a greater growth in power of CPU's and GPU's over the last two years than improvements in memory and HDD technology.

Perhaps it is still limited to 5.9 for those components .. unless anyone, anywhere ... got 6 or higher for their HDD or RAM ?

I think the ram is about right at 5.9, it's only DDR2 800 CL5, there's much faster stuff out there, just Intel motherboards are picky, and it's the best my board can run.

Anyone have an Intel SSD to test against Windows 7 (I don't have any SSDs yet, I'm eying up one of the Gen 2 intel ones)? If it doesn't get above 5.9, then maybe storage only goes to 5.9.

[Kayin]

I get over 6, but I run SSD boot. My overall score is like 6.8 or something. Once I unlock this tricore I expect over 7.

[crenn]

5.9 is about the limit for Mechanical HDDs for a very good reason.

[Crazy Buddhist]

5.9 is about the limit for Mechanical HDDs for a very good reason.

/me begs the foxy one to tell us the reason.

[TheGreatSatan]

I got the drive and it scores a crappy 5.6

[Kayin]

Access time. That's what it's down to.

[x88x]

I get over 6, but I run SSD boot. My overall score is like 6.8 or something. Once I unlock this tricore I expect over 7.

I also get over 5.9 for my SSDs...7.4 actually They're actually the highest rated thing in my computer. Believe it or not, according to the Win7 Experience Score, my GTX260 is the bottleneck Oh well, I still haven't run into anything I can't run at full settings except for GTA4...stupid artificial limiters...I don't care if I 'only' have 896MB of GDRAM, I want to turn everything up as far as the dial goes! Let ME worry about it playing like crap if I turn it up too high

[TheGreatSatan]

Which ones do you have?

[x88x]

I have two 60GB OCZ Vertex drives in a RAID-0. Granted, with a crappy onboard RAID controller, but hey, it's not like RAID-0 really needs much power behind it anyways, right I would definitely recommend the Vertex line if you're looking to get an SSD; they're relatively cheap, and provide amazing performance. I've become accustomed to the speed, but when I first switched from my temporary system to this.....there's really no comparing them to the physical HDDs I was using, it's like comparing a sport bike to a bicycle, yeah, they both have two wheels, but that's about where the similarity ends.

[TheGreatSatan]

I've read reviews on Newegg and lots of people are saying they have to do a bunch of firmware updates and Windows tweaks to get it working right. What have you done?