Fresh boot clicky to play time?

[homercles337]

Standard question. How long do you wait for a HL2 load from clicky to play time? I mean everything loading from a fresh boot: steam/steam "update" -> HL2 -> save game. Im building a new rig and would like to see a few sys specs and their load times -- if you dont mind.

I currently have a low/mid-level rig (P4 2GHz, dual 80GB drives [RAID 0], 1024 rambus, 9800 Pro) and my time is ~11 minutes. Crazy if you ask me given that FC loads in < 3 minutes.

 

[homercles337]

Anyone care to follow up with sys specs? I plan on going with dual 10k Cheetahs (RAID 0) to drive down the load times. I know that 10k drives in a RAID 0 config doesnt really contribute that much, but given that i have such LOOOONNNGGGG wait times its cant hurt, right? Or should i just give up on the RAID 0 idea?