Myself at least, always try to use as little vcore as possible at the wanted speed. Start at 1.35 and use less after making sure it's stable.
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Myself at least, always try to use as little vcore as possible at the wanted speed. Start at 1.35 and use less after making sure it's stable.
Like Ben said way back, somewhere before page 1000 of this thread, a setting of 1.2875 in the BIOS gives you 1.34V vcore - and that's right in the middle of the AMD-recommended normal range (1.3 - 1.4)Quote:
Originally Posted by Titus
This thread is WAY too good not to read every bit of it...just wish someone would edit it into sub-threads...hell, let's make a whole new web site out of it :)
why would ASUS set their default Vcore value to a value higher then the rated value?...sounds like I better lower my 1.425 Vcore...Quote:
Originally Posted by Cisco
no idea, but my 3800x2 defaults to 1.425. that will not hurt it at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Titus
Quote:
Originally Posted by HKPolice
Not sure we really needed another thread for this but to each their own. But the info is pretty good and consolidates alot of what's on this one. We will have splintered into 10 different threads working out all the same issues before long.
Speaking of that did you guys see that there is a thread on the 903 bios out now? Not on the asus site but was found on someones board so it may be official and not beta. Could be a little more stable and possibly fix some of the issues we have been having.
Flashing to 903 did the trick for me. Now I have a WD2500KS in SATA 1 by itself and a pair of WD800JBs IDE w/SATA adapters in 3 & 4 running RAID 0..all works fine (up yours ASUS "you can't do that!" tech support)Quote:
Originally Posted by cronic
Did some quick speed tests with hdtach and the HD part of pcmark05...my old pair of IDE drives in RAID0 are almost exactly the same performance, including CPU utilization of 4% (nvdia IDE) as the single SATA II drive. Now I'm wondering what a pair of SATA II drives will do...onwards and upwards.
Perhaps even i can install the OS on the pair of SataII drives finally. Time to flash.
X2 Hitachi Deskstar T7K250 SATA II Raid 0Quote:
Originally Posted by Cisco
HD tach V3.0.1.0
Quick bench- 8MB zones
Ramdom access 13.5ms
CPU util 7% (+/- 2%)
Average read 97.6MB/s
Burst read 218.2MB/S
Edit. long bench- 32MB zones
Ramdom access 12.9ms
CPU util 4% (+/- 2%)
Average read 101.4MB/s
Burst read 216.7MB/S
what do u get on a single drive
Nice Average...I get this:Quote:
Originally Posted by Zeus...
http://www.pbase.com/image/53649163/original.jpg
I got this with my 2x raptors on my a8n-sli deluxe any one with the same config but with the a8n32-sli care to compare?
Did you run the proper program to enable 3gb/s?Quote:
Originally Posted by Zeus...
I get much better scores with 2 Hitachi T7k250 Sata 3gb/s.
This is the red line after I enabled 3g/s
On the same system you may see my results with 1.5gb/s.
This is the blue line with my T7K250 at factory settings.
http://users.forthnet.gr/ath/mloupos/sata2v1.png
No - want prog is that:am:Quote:
Originally Posted by Marios
I do not remember the URL and I am not on my PC now.
I downloaded from Hitachi.
You run it from a bootable floppy disk.
You must enable both 3g/s and the spread something (you get no info on this whether it is enabled or not by default).
thanks for that , was on their site ATM :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Marios
Big thanks for that again 'Marios' - I remenber reading it know in a review when I was selecting what hardware to get - and then forgot:am:
X2 Hitachi Deskstar T7K250 SATA II Raid 0
HD tach V3.0.1.0
Quick bench- 8MB zones
Ramdom access 12.8ms
CPU util 10% (+/- 2%)
Average read 103.9MB/s
Burst read 326.3MB/S - better then SCSI ultra320
Edit. long bench- 32MB zones
Ramdom access 12.9ms
CPU util 6% (+/- 2%)
Average read 104.3MB/s
Burst read 306.5.7MB/S
:D
Hi Guys,
Not sure if anyone here has experienced this or if it's actually something which has a very simple answer but;
I have 2x Maxtor 300gb 6V300F0 SATAII drives which I bought for my new A8N32 build, yet with both bios 703,805 and 903 when I raid them I am completely unable to partiton them as part of the Win setup.
The bios sees them fine, the F6 setup sees them fine and confirms the space, but when trying to then partition them in the windows setup it just says "please wait" and then drops me back to the main partitioning screen after having done nothing.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
Scott C
Sweet
Quote:
Originally Posted by Scott C
Did u use the 'F10' on the boot screen to build the raid array ?
Hiya,Quote:
Originally Posted by Zeus...
Yeah, array is built and set to bootable, but regardless of what i've tried (other than swapping drives over which would be a nightmare as the only spare ones I have are being used so I can troubleshoot now :p) nothing seems to want to work.
It's XP-32 with SP2 slipstreamed or XP-64 SP1, it will just not let me make any partitions, both drives seem to work fine individually so I just don't get it
Thanks,
Scott
Did u use the right drivers at the F6 promt when widows is booting ie NOT the Silicon Image ones?Quote:
Originally Posted by Scott C
Hiya,Quote:
Originally Posted by Zeus...
I used both the Nvidia Raid and Nvidia Storage, something along those lines. What the A8N32 CD produces :)
Thanks,
Scott
:confused: strange worked for me - but others have had issues setting up a raid array tooQuote:
Originally Posted by Scott C
For those of you having trouble with raid.
which drivers are you guys using for the raid setup? what's the version on the floppy?
MSWORKS3U_1 (well thats what it labels the floppy)Quote:
Originally Posted by safan80
Hiya,Quote:
Originally Posted by safan80
I believe the drivers are "IDE SATA RAID driver version 5.52" which are part of the nForce4 AMD/Intel X16 driver package
Scott