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Last edited by JaidynM; 06 Sep 2011 at 01:55.
I recently built up a little HTPC box with a ZOTAC Z68ITX-B-E motherboard. My goal was small, powerful, fairly quiet and moderately low power consumption. I'm fairly pleased with the results. Of interest, here is the standard WEI and the results of running "winsat disk". My reason for showing both is that the WEI looks like a regular mechanical HDD. In this case, it's a kind of hybrid. I have a 40 GB Intel SSD in the mSATA slot on the under-side of the motherboard, and I have the BIOS set for RAID. In Windows I set up Intel Rapid Storage for acceleration, or what they call Intel Smart Response Technology. The winsat results show some pretty fast numbers for a simple Samsung Eco-Green HDD.
As a HTPC, I'm using ShowAnalyzer to process out commercials. With this setup, I've been seeing a one hour HD show get processed in two to three minutes. The ShowAnalyzer Interface reports peaks of 60 MB/sec being processed. I think that's pretty good.
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This is what a Rampage III Extreme gives.. I expect my RAM to hit that 7.9 too when I will have 12 GB.. The I7-960 will probably stick at where it is now
This is my work computer. I use a large set of data everyday so an SSD is not an option. I have a 3 drive RAID 0 short stroked to help with the speed but 6.3 is all i can squeeze out.