friendly reminder that she wanted to get pregnant by varian but has a barren womb
Connor Moore
Stop spouting lies. How rude.
Jayden Perry
I'd go for the orc warrior
tauren are for pallys
Mason Russell
PROOFS?
Christopher Nelson
elves are cute tbqh
Robert Morales
Is it gay to suck female blood elf holy paladin penis?
Tyler Jackson
Most fun warlock spec?
Oliver Fisher
are the palladin healers fun to play?
Nathan Scott
Western Digital has meant bleeding-edge hard drive development, and the Raptor X is a killer example. As they like to say, it’s the first drive with a view! Why? To let see the 10,000 RPM spindle speed and learn the real meaning of “motion blur” as it zips by faster than you can see. The drive uses state-of-the-art technology, with special polycarbonate lenses and carbon nanotube fasteners to allow you to be in on the action.
Why is this speed increase so important? Any time you perceive a slow down in your system, it’s mostly likely due to the seek time in getting your HD to find whatever it is that’s asked for, either by you, or some game or video. While manufacturers have been building larger and larger drives, they weren’t any faster, and so it was taking longer and longer to search through them. Western Digital has offered a solution – use smaller drives at faster rates! When you combine the reliability and speed of the new WD drives, you see an unbeatable combination certain to be wanted by every computer enthusiast around! Face it: you want it for the cool value, but do you need it? Yes!
Gavin Martin
As a person who read the comics, I can safely say that isn't true.
Eli Davis
...
Bentley Walker
No. Sucking a female blood elf penis is the pinnacle of being straight.
Lincoln Gray
Depends on how big it is. Also is the semen infused by the light?
Evan Martin
ALTHOUGH WESTERN DIGITAL'S 10K-RPM Raptor Serial ATA hard drives were originally intended for enterprise-class workstations and servers, enthusiasts were quick to employ them in personal desktop systems and gaming rigs. Marketing types tend to freak out when enthusiasts show such blatant disregard for artificial product segmentation, but Western Digital took it in stride. In fact, the company has even cooked up something special for the enthusiast community with the latest Raptor refresh. We've been waiting for that refresh for a couple of years now, and Western Digital finally tipped its hand in January when it announced the Raptor WD1500. The drive retains the Raptor's 10K-RPM spindle speed and Serial ATA interface, but adds a beefier cache, larger total capacity, and support for Native Command Queuing. Just days later, Western Digital pulled back the curtains on the Raptor X, a version of the WD1500 with a window on the drive's internals. That's right: a hard drive window.
The Raptor X shares the WD1500's updated internals, and apart from the better view, it's identical to its enterprise-class counterpart. But how does it perform? We've cornered one in our labs and subjected it to an exhaustive set of synthetic and application tests to find out.
Jason Phillips
From an aesthetic perspective, hard drives tend to be rather dull. Not the Raptor X, though. It's dressed in black and features a unique window that offers a glimpse at the mirror-like finish of the drive's platters and one of its heads. The view is even more impressive with the drive powered on, as the platter spins and the drive head darts from track to track. Check out a video of the drive head in action here. There isn't any real utility to the drive window, though. One could perhaps use it to diagnose a head crash or other mechanical failures, but it's really just for show—showing off, that is. When you're running what may be the fastest Serial ATA hard drive on the market, you might as well show off its internals. Think of it like an engine window on a Ferrari F430.
Of course, Ferraris don't come cheap, and neither does the Raptor X. The drive carries a $50 price premium over the Raptor WD1500, which lacks the window but is otherwise identical to the Raptor X.
Apart from the WD1500, the Raptor X's closest competitor is its predecessor, the Raptor WD740GB. Here's how the new drive's specs compare.
Jacob Mitchell
why bother when SSDs are a thing
Ian Thompson
wiki spammer back?
Hunter Murphy
Perhaps the biggest difference between the Raptor X and the WD740GD is the former's higher density platters. New 75GB platters allow Western Digital to squeeze 150GB out of a two-platter design, giving the Raptor X twice the capacity of the previous generation. Platters with a higher areal density do more than just increase the drive's storage capacity, though. Greater areal densities allow the drive head to access the same amount of data over a shorter physical distance, resulting in higher sustained transfer rates.
In addition to doubling the WD740GD's total capacity, the new Raptor also doubles its predecessor's cache size from 8MB to 16MB. Support for Native Command Queuing (NCQ) has been added, as well. The WD740GD actually supports a form of command queuing known as Tagged Command Queuing (TCQ), but storage controllers with TCQ support have been few and far between. Support for NCQ is far more common—nearly universal among high-end core logic chipsets.
Despite several new features, the Raptor X has the same 10K-RPM spindle speed as previous Raptors. Write seek times are more than half a millisecond faster with the new drive, at least according to Western Digital's spec sheet. That might not seem like a lot of time, but with processors pushing billions of instructions per second, it's a virtual eternity inside a modern PC.
Aiden Perry
Speaking of eternities, the original 150MB/s Serial ATA interface has been around for a while now. Newer SATA hard drives and storage controllers have moved on to support 300MB/s transfer rates, but the Raptor X tops out at only 150MB/s. Western Digital says it hasn't been able to get 300MB/s transfer rates working perfectly with a wide enough variety of disk controllers, so it has taken a conservative approach with the Raptor X. Since not even 15K-RPM SCSI drives can sustain fast enough transfer rates to saturate a 150MB/s connection, the Raptor X's lack of support for 300MB/s transfer rates shouldn't be a huge drawback.
Ryder Long
Note that the Atlas 10K V, Caviar SE16, and Raptor WD740GD lack support for Native Command Queuing. As we've mentioned, the WD740GD does support a form of command queuing known as Tagged Command Queuing (TCQ), but host controller and chipset support for TCQ is pretty thin. Our Intel 955X-based test platform doesn't support TCQ, either. Thanks to an Adaptec 29320R SCSI controller, it will support the Atlas 10K V's SCSI command queuing. The Atlas technically doesn't do NCQ, but SCSI command queuing should be just as good—if not better.
While our SCSI card supports command queuing, adding it to our test system introduces a couple of other issues. The system lacks PCI-X slots, so the card is stuck on the relatively pokey PCI bus. At the very least, this will limit the speed of burst transfers, although it could also affect performance in other tests. SCSI drives also support a WRITE_THROUGH flag that requires that data be written directly to the disk rather than to the drive cache. This feature prevents data from being lost in the event of a power failure or other interruption, but it can slow write performance. WRITE_THROUGH is an important feature for enterprise applications, so we haven't disabled it on the Atlas 10K V.
Since Seagate makes versions of the 7200.7 both with and without NCQ support, the 7200.7 in our tests appears as the "Barracuda 7200.7 NCQ" to clarify that it's the NCQ version of the drive. The Caviar RE2, Deskstar T7K250, DiamondMax 10, 7200.8, 7200.9, and Raptor X aren't explicitly labeled as NCQ drives because they're not available without NCQ support.
Daniel Cruz
Regardless of whether you actually want to see your hard drive's internals—and pay a $50 premium for the privilege—you have to admire the engineering that went into installing a window in the Raptor. From a technical standpoint, it probably would have been much easier to put a window on a drive with a slower spindle speed, but Western Digital had the audacity to do it with a 10K-RPM drive. That says a lot, especially in a hard drive world filled with relatively dull and boring designs.
Of course, there's more to the Raptor X than just its window. The drive offers a number of improvements over previous Raptors, including higher density platters, a larger cache and total capacity, and support for Native Command Queuing (NCQ), all while retaining the 10K-RPM spindle speed that made the Raptor so popular in the first place. Thanks to those new additions, the Raptor X has no problem outperforming its predecessor, in some cases quite dramatically. In fact, the addition of NCQ support seems to have had a particularly profound impact on performance under multitasking loads.
If anything dampens our enthusiasm for the Raptor X, it's the drive's lack of support for 300MB/s Serial ATA transfer rates. That's not a huge deal, of course, and we'd rather have Western Digital get it right than release something half-baked. However, with a suggested retail price of $350, the Raptor X has little room for error.
Zachary Parker
tfw wow DCing me on SSD all the time
William Gonzalez
Did you know you can tell other's mental capabilities by asking which dps they play? Use this picture to find out if you're retarded or a supernatural being!
Nathan Smith
After camping Dalaran for an hour and a half (including some Underbelly visits) I'm pretty certain that any Night Elf Priests that exist are too busy table-dancing in Goldshire and the only Dwarf Hunter that exists are minor questgivers in Highmountain, Nagrand, and Shoalzar Basin.
Rip Love Fool meta-achieve, I'll see you next year, maybe.
Ryan Brown
That's right: $350 for a 150GB hard drive. That's a pretty dismal cost per gigabyte, but given the Raptor X's performance, it's not that hard to justify. Raptors obviously aren't the most economical solution for those looking to maximize storage capacity, but if you're looking for the fastest Serial ATA hard drive around, the Raptor X is the way to go. If you don't want to pay a premium for a window, you can always opt for Western Digital's Raptor WD1500. That drive shares the same internals as the Raptor X, costs less than $300, and should offer identical performance. We don't hand out Editor's Choice awards often here at TR, but the Raptor X is deserving for a number of reasons. For starters, it's by far the fastest Serial ATA hard drive around. As if that weren't enough, Western Digital had the engineering prowess—and nerve—to put a window in it. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, Western Digital made the window optional by offering the WD1500 for those who have little interest in staring at their drive's internals for hours on end. I've been playing with the Raptor X for a couple of weeks now and the window's novelty still hasn't worn off, but then, perhaps I'm too easily amused by precise mechanics spinning at mind-numbing speeds.
Andrew Bell
The Drekirjar continue to enslave and torment my kin. Show them the allies of the Thorignir do not fear their nets and harpoons!
Julian Davis
which class has the fastest killing speed in pve killing content at max level?
Jayden Morgan
>assassination rogue over literally ANYTHING
I play shadow and even I can tell you this is bullshit
Parker Cooper
What server are you on? I can make a couple of dudes for you to rose petal but you absolutely cannot waste my time If I log in and you're not there I'm never coming back and I'm telling your mother
Jonathan Collins
rollan
Christian Roberts
rerolling already have shammy
Levi Long
I added a starter edition license to my bnet and made all but Orc death knight which I got by joining world boss groups til I found one
That's how I soloed the love prism toy achieve too, beam your alt on your main and when the alt gets the achieve and uploads the toy it works on your main
Jack Taylor
Spinebreaker, but I'm also posting from a phone in bed because fuck getting my computer back on right now.
Thomas Jackson
>EXISTENCE ENDS... I BECOME NOTHING
GIVE ME THE FUCKING DRAGON YOU PIECE OF SHIT
Luke Russell
nice game
nice thread
Jacob Flores
>Shadow that high lol, its easy as fuck to play shadow, they even dumbed it really down this expansion.
Daniel Mitchell
>tfw i will never find someone trustworthy enough to buy 2.5 mil gold from me for PayPal $
Evan Bailey
i'd do that but not for the gold but because i liked you as a person
in other words lets fug
Ethan Gomez
Here's how I think of my money - as soldiers - I send them out to war everyday. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so there's more of them.
I'll give you one hundred dollars for the 2.5 million gold. However to make sure I get my investment in you back I want a 5 dollar royalty everytime you spend my money until I get my hundred back. Simple enough, right? Once I get my money back the royalty drops to 1 dollar in perpetuity.
Lucas Cooper
just got this badboy
its getting buffed right
Grayson Torres
yeah it's getting buffed
now increases corruption's damage by 15%
Hudson Gomez
hey, mister! have you hugged a gnome today?
Easton Jones
>femdorf monk
This has no business looking nearly as good as it does what the fuck
Jacob Lopez
What race/class do bogpilled people play? I'm thinking Balance Druid or Arcane Mage
Asher Perez
I really, really love Jaina. I cuddled my pillow wishing it was her.
Adam Cooper
Reminder she died in the manabomb
Jayden James
Good looking fist weapons that aren't either fuck huge wolverine claws nor low quality brass knuckles?
Levi Sullivan
No she didn't. She was just imbued with a fiery, righteous hatred fro the Horde. She's the perfect lady.
Aaron Watson
Two headed ogre
Jace Cooper
Fist of the Deity is pretty cool
Evan Mitchell
ummmm......
Jack Ortiz
which addon is the skillbar thing? does it also have the bag bar and menu bar?
Lucas Moore
Inferiors waifus step aside.
Joseph Allen
bartender and yes
Lincoln Garcia
>no health numbers >20 million quests >shit ui setup in general >pedo fapbait character
Really made ME think
Levi Taylor
never sexualize my character again
Blake Gonzalez
Lady Proudmoore is best lady.
Oliver Cruz
step aside living fags
Ryan James
"she" is a dreadlord
Elijah Thompson
Love Rocket is a giant waste of time.
Even if you did it 1040 times, since the reported drop rate is 0.03% that would mean only a 26.8% chance to get it after those 1040 tries and that, my friends, is a lot of tries.
Samuel Wood
Best nathrizem*
Jose Ward
Thats 1 in every 3333 boxes...
Dominic Price
Its a bit too big for my taste
I just want something that looks decent and not overly big Maybe some simple claws
Brayden Sanchez
Which spec is best for raiding as a Warlock right now?
Nathaniel White
aff
Wyatt Wood
>20 hours played at 110
>Already 2 bis legendaries
Nice game retailcucks lmao
Ryder Edwards
good thing you are gated for week+ until you can use your second :^)
time moves slow now tehehe
fuck you, what class and spec leatherman?
Jacob Perez
I just got the ring to go with my helm on frost DK after 35 hours played and I'm so bored with how easy this is to do top DPS I'm just going to go back to Elysium
Eli Walker
>200+ hours played at 110 >one legendary >still
Lucas Ward
>When your oneitis asks to do content with you and you hang out in Discord alone together in the middle of the night trying to push a keystone Feels good
Carson James
>wanting the lich king's frosty seconds
Joshua Wilson
>in 7.2 blizz working hard to nullify the advantage of dedicated players with a lot of AP and good legendaries over casuals
I fucking hate this game. I fucking hate blizzard. they should change their name to "cuckold games". lets all just bow down and suck of casual players. they don't play as much as you do but have almost exactly the same dps? wooow, real impressive! bravo casuals! just fuck off and die dedicated players! stop being so good and lucky at the game!!!
Bentley Cook
If a casual does as much DPS as you then you're just a shitty player, user.
If the only reason you're doing more is having dumped AP into 0.5% more damage traits and getting a lucky BiS lego, you're just terrible.