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Nooooooooooooooo! It always seems to take them like two years from announcing their high end monitors to them actually launching them. Well, based on a sample size of one - the PG27U.........

Folks - any update on the release date? The word from Asus was end of May.......

Wow - thanks for the quick replies everyone. Looks like I am going cheap graphics card shopping!

Morning all, I have just bought a P7H55D-M (socket 1156) to build a very fast but very quiet home media PC. I really wanted to use the integrated graphics capability as it is more than enough for my needs, but I rip a lot of media so wanted the most powerful CPU I could get, so I paired it...

Any idea when these drives are due in? They have been on preorder forever......

Hmmm. I agree that it will be constant across the solid state device and I also think that they are the future and that the Samsung device is a good step forward, but this really isn't good enough yet for the mainstream or enthusiast market.

The performance so far doesn't look that sensational with a quoted read of 57Mbps and a write speed of 32 Mbps - a single raptor could easily better this.....

I had hell getting mine going too. Setup crashed just before you got to the drive setup bit when I used a USB keyboard and mouse (no idea why!) and also wouldn't work properly with the drivers when I loaded them from a USB floppy. Again, don't know why. Things I would probably try both...

Yeh. Have run with 4 disks in both my workstation and server for a while. I tend to loose a disk every year or two, but it is all backed up and like you say, it is pretty inevitable. :(

Hmmm. No failures for ages and now one of my nice new Raptor 150's has gone. :rolleyes: Just clicked and refused to detect in the BIOS.

3dmarks 5131 sm2 2401 hdrsm3 2438 cpu 1103 The spec is as per the sig (graphics OC'ed to 610\1.85, CPU at 10x280).

I guess it depends. I have owned 36GB and 74GB raptors and I have always been able to sell them second hand for just a few £'s short of their current "new" cost. If you check ebay now for 74GB raptors they are selling anywhere from £75 to £110 with the majority being well over £85. Given they...

Hmmm - the read speed of the x4 160GB 7200RPM disks is quite good, but to put it in proper perspective I think it needs comparing to x4 raptors......

Hi there - yes this time last year I was running x4 74GB raptors and I have owned 36GB raptors before that. Although I have no benchmarks to back this up I would have to say that most of the time you cannot tell the difference. Only with things like loading a level in Doom 3 or Quake 4 does...

Yes - the PCI vs PCI-E thing would certainly account for the difference. Tried to HDTach - 1st time I have tried it so not really sure what to make of the results, but look OK against the other benchmarks for disks that are included in HDTach:

Well - finished installing two 150GB raptors (RAID 0) yesterday. Tried them on both the Sil 3114 chip and came up with a throughput of 99MB\sec and then after a rebuild against the NForce 4 chipset which ran at a much better 126MB\sec using SiSoft Sandra. Not sure how much I would trust the...