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I felt that my computer was starting to lack a bit, so I just ordered two more upgrades. Pioneer Quad-layer Blu-ray bunerOCZ 240 GB PCIe SSDThat BD burner will be sweet, once I can actually get QL discs. If you look at the specs page for the SSD, find the 240 GB model, and see why I settled on that one. So now I have 12 cores from dual Six Core AMD Opterons, 32 GB of ECC DDR2 PC2-5300. I think next I'll upgrade my video card.
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I thought I was keeping it simple.  I didn't say anything about using Linux to dd my current boot drive to the new SSD. Or theorize about any of the option ROM problems I may face trying to get the PCIe card to boot. I am a little disappointed that the card actually has a PCI-X to PCIe bridge behind which is a 4 port SilImage SATA RAID controller. There are four 60 GB SSDs that are striped together to present the full 240 GB to the operating system.
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Oh, my current boot drive is a RAID1 mirror (the striping I mentioned above is RAID0) of two 136 GB, 15k RPM, SAS drives. It's pretty fast, but this SSD should be almost an order of magnitude faster.
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12 cores! are they used all the time? maybe folding?
i did fold with my GTX280 for some time, but the card would break after 2 months, and it would take 2 months for me to get a replacement under warranty.
when i got my third card, i stopped folding with it and now i only do it with the cpu.
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