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Question for ASUS Rampage ii extreme owners:
Does the BIOS of this board have the option to set the legacy floopy disk to 1.2 MB or is 1.44 MB the only option?

The reference design is flexible for adding more power inputs to the card, with up to 2x6-pin + 1x8-pin input. They don't really need a new PCB design for some cards designed for heavy overclocking....

Yeah 7800 to 7900 GTX would be better. And it was on par with the socket 939 age-wise

The 6+8 pin power design of the 580 is a problem. If it had 8+8 or more, you would have some more headroom to increase the voltage.

In the past, ATI and NVIDIA had a bit different way of doing AA when you wanted more than 4x. I remember some years back ATI had 6x AA and NVIDIA had 8xS AA. Back then it would not be an apples to...

And what's the problem with some higher VTT? I currently run at 1.54V to stabilize 4.0 GHz uncore and I'm thinking of trying to sync it with the core at 4.2 with about 1.6V or more.

Just got to test the Spinpoint F3 3xRAID-0. Performance is far from making the most of the drives, but whatever. Make the SATA6 would help here.

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I finally ordered 3 Spinpoint F3 1TB drives for €81 each. The total of €243 is still cheaper than the single 2TB WD Caviar Black drive that is at €271, let alone the RE4.

I agree with that. As it currently stands, I'm leaning towards 2 Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TBs to replace my current RE2 RAID-0 array.

Maybe WD wants high-performance buyers like myself to pay it...

Much better. True 7200RPM 500GB/platter transfer rates.

I wonder if WD clears its last stock of 333GB platters with the first batches of the WD1001FAES drive (at least those that are to be used...

I wonder why the 2TB Caviar Black & the RE4 versions perform better than the WD1001FAES. Is this really a 500GB/platter 7200RPM drive?

Most E-SATA drives also contain a USB connection option for compatibility. USB3.0 drives start showing as well. A new 1.5TB drive operating via USB2.0 is considerably transfer-rate bottlenecked. Your...

The 1.5 TB RE4 and a new SATA3 1 TB Caviar Black are in WD website.

I suppose these are on the 7200RPM 500GB platters. The 1TB Caviar Black has my attention, both because of the SATA 3 and because...

The Western Digtal Caviar Black Edition and RE4 with 500GB per platter are the current top performers. The problem is that at the moment only the expensive 2TB drives have them.

However, quietly,...

An SSD is better than the Veloci Raptor RAID-0 assuming you get a modern and quality one. But I wouldn't RAID an SSD at this time. Maybe later if they improove the drivers and get TRIM working.
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Finally switched to Nehalem system and I've seen the last of my full of problems S2E, C1 YORKFIELD, CORSAIR 4GB 1600C7 system. After 1,5 years of troubles these are my points of view:

1) C1...

Personally I didn't find it much more expensive than other X58 solutions I had in mind (P6T, P6T DELUXE, GA-EX58-UD5), so I bought it despite the fact that I wasn't interested in any of the extra...

I am cooling limited as it seems. The heatsink (ZALMAN CNPS9900 with AS5) is cold in touch making it look like watercooling won't change anything at all. The heatspreader is a possible cause of the...

I got my system.

First impression is that I need to set QPI/VTT voltage to 1.40+ to get above 180 BCLK. The CPU clock seems to scale normal (4.2 GHz stable 1 hour PRIME95 at 1.3V), but I get...

My Q9550 needs 1.55V to stabilize above 3.8 GHz. 4 GHz was a real struggle and only with watercooling. Now it is down to 3.825 (8.5 x 450) until I switch to a better system.

BTW, pretty...

But if your 12GB are 6 double sided sticks, they probably are same as difficult for the board to handle as the full 24GB would be (again 6 DS sticks).

Watercooling with an EK waterblock and my old crappy Thermaltake BigWater 745 installation (changed the water pump to a more powerful 500l/h one). The video card is cooled third (CPU --> NB -->...

OK, now I finalised my testing and I am not particularly pleased with the results, but here goes:

Maximum overclock: (stock voltage/v-modded voltage)

Core: 713 --> 771 (+8.13%)
Shader: 1458...

Yes, the VGPU affects shaders as well, no I dought you can afford any v-gpu mod on aircooling.

Use rivatuner to overclock and try to unlink the core & shader clocks and find the core clock and the...

Finished my GTX 280 v-mod yesterday, but my water pump is malfunctioning and the water flow is very poor, making me unable to test the overclock before I change it. At least I was happy to find a...