Zambezi ES performance weirdness

[Greg83]

sorry to come off as a fanboy. only thing i'm not a fan of is nvidia after my 680i and dead ram and how they dealt with it.
systems went cele, k8 754, k8 939, core 2 duo, core 2 quad and another core2quad. and a bunch of others for friends systems based on their budgets. I always used my ncix PP discount to get them best bang for their buck.
next might be this 8 core. depends on how low i can set the cpu voltage and speed. i don't have huge needs for raw clock speed. but low power usage, while maintaining enough performance for what i use is what its about to me.
But raid quality is important to me too. will have to see how far its come along on amd 990fx before i switch. only need it to perform on par with intels ich9r for raid hard drives. ssd's i will only need one sata 3.0 one and would be able to handle buying a raid card specially for that.

I saw this "All of this talk about engineering samples is really annnoying because they are not designed around performance. So trying to measure something for performance when it is designed for validation is really pointless."

they're not crippled. they were never designed for performance in the first place. only validation

maybe JF can PM me regarding if 990fx would pull around 500MB/s or greater with a 6 drive raid 0. permitted the disks can handle it. also if there is write caching like intel has used a while to get those 3000MB/s plus burst speeds.