OT: Hardware Question

[Spruence M]

Originally Posted by btaft

I am considering fairly major hardware upgrade and have a few questions I was hoping to get some feedback on:

1) Does a RAID 1 Array adversely affect game performance. I am considering this for data protection.

2) If I have dual DVI outputs on a card and dual monitors can I send the same picture to both without taking a performance hit (I.e. the same data just getting sent to two places)

3) If a motherboard has two PCI Express slots and is listed as crossfire capable does this mean that SLI is not supported or is this purely between the cards and the operating system.

Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,

BT

1 - A Raid 1 will have a negative impact on game preformance. If you want to use a RAID to buff your games, use a RAID 0.

2 - Yes. In your control panel there is an option to use "Clone". If you have two monitors plugged in, it should auto detect and the defualt is this option. Has been a long time since I did this, but it should not conflict with your games, until you try to start wrapping for spanning. If it doesnt auto play, look for the "Detect Displays" on your control panel.

3 - SLI = Nvidia Crossfire = ATI