MSI's Gaming 27T AIO May Not Need All 8 GB Of VRAM

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  • jimmysmitty
    What is "Super RAID 4"? I have been doing RAIDs for along time and almost never seen RAID 4. I did do some digging and the only RAID 4 I found was a mix between 3 (another rare RAID level) and 5 (very common) and requires at least 3 drives to be done.

    Must be some marketing jumbo. That and the 8GB of VRAM is overkill.
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  • poochiepiano
    at the same time, if they chose to take off some of the vRAM, people would be crying over the gimping of hardware for AIOs and trying to nickel and dime customers with mediocre equipment at a premium price.
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  • FUNANDJAM
    No gsync? Unless I completely overlooked it, I didn't see it mentioned anywhere. I'd be glad if someone pointed out where it says it has it. Now that laptops have gsync in them, you'd think that at the starting price of about $2700 that this device would have it too.
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  • turkey3_scratch
    "As it is a common misconception that more RAM or vRAM always leads to higher performance, this is mostly just a marketing tactic."

    So is the fact that they put I7s instead of I5s in gaming-oriented computers.
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  • jimmysmitty
    16938014 said:
    "As it is a common misconception that more RAM or vRAM always leads to higher performance, this is mostly just a marketing tactic."

    So is the fact that they put I7s instead of I5s in gaming-oriented computers.

    Actually a i7 does have some benefits for come games and on higher end GPUs (normally dual GPUs more) while 8GB of VRAM for the majority of games is pointless at 1080P even maxed out.
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  • jase240
    What is "Super RAID 4"? I have been doing RAIDs for along time and almost never seen RAID 4. I did do some digging and the only RAID 4 I found was a mix between 3 (another rare RAID level) and 5 (very common) and requires at least 3 drives to be done.

    Must be some marketing jumbo. That and the 8GB of VRAM is overkill.

    It says that is is a 4TB and a 2TB hard drive in "Super RAID", probably JBOD and not really RAID at all.

    JBOD( Just a Bunch Of Disks ) only adds capacities together of drives and does not improve speed nor add redundancy at all.
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  • cknobman
    MSI All-in-One PC AG270 2QC 3K-001US over at NewEgg is a similar model but with a 2K screen, 970m 6GB, 12GB RAM, 1TB HDD + 128GB SSD.

    Only $1500.

    Its a slick deal.

    Newegg Link
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  • turkey3_scratch
    16938033 said:
    16938014 said:
    "As it is a common misconception that more RAM or vRAM always leads to higher performance, this is mostly just a marketing tactic."

    So is the fact that they put I7s instead of I5s in gaming-oriented computers.

    Actually a i7 does have some benefits for come games and on higher end GPUs (normally dual GPUs more) while 8GB of VRAM for the majority of games is pointless at 1080P even maxed out.

    True but currently it won't be worth the extra $100 over the I5. I see lots of gaming PCs prebuilt with an I7 and a GTX 960 for instance.
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  • jimmysmitty
    16938068 said:
    What is "Super RAID 4"? I have been doing RAIDs for along time and almost never seen RAID 4. I did do some digging and the only RAID 4 I found was a mix between 3 (another rare RAID level) and 5 (very common) and requires at least 3 drives to be done.

    Must be some marketing jumbo. That and the 8GB of VRAM is overkill.

    It says that is is a 4TB and a 2TB hard drive in "Super RAID", probably JBOD and not really RAID at all.

    JBOD( Just a Bunch Of Disks ) only adds capacities together of drives and does not improve speed nor add redundancy at all.

    So pretty much just marketing.
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  • DXRick
    I would like to see how it does with Fall Out 4 against desktops.
    Reply