Areca 1880

[SteveRo]

That's another 2k points.
That would be an amazing achievement considering you're on 920/water/gen 1 vertex.
Planet was on areca 1680 with 11xR0 F200 200GB drives, GTX2 memory and 980 under ln2 at 5790!

[Computurd]

gah my ram is still loose, not dynamic switching yet, and haven't even hit the volts on this 280...ive got room my friend.
however, i just missed my friend mbreslin by 76 points..time to work on ram
nothing is impossible (besides you and mike )
lofty goals make for outstanding accomplishments
or horrible crushing disappointment LOL

[Computurd]

alrighty enough for tonight.
got the number five spot by a few points. tomorrow it is really time to really work it. not being arrogant, i know the controller is making it easy
but i do have a goal
once others get the controller cache it will be game over for me

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?pcmv=359473

[Anvil]

Congrats Computurd,

I've been playing a bit with a few Vertex 2s and I can tell you, without that extra 4GB cache it would take a lot of work and a lot of OC to get to 30'
(possibly a few tweaks as well, are there any known tweaks/guidelines?)

I'm staying at 4GHz for the moment though, still hunting for the optimal stripe size.

[SteveRo]

Good morning Mr Anvil,
The optimum # of drives changed for me based cpu speed.
4800 - x5 drives
5200 - x7 drives
also pcie max oc droped from 119 to 118
reminder - use only the x64 version of pcmv

[SteveRo]

whow!!
And there goes Mr CT screaming past Mr Mbreslin to take the #5 position!
Narrowest of leads - CT's 31268 to Mbreslin's 31252 - 16 points!
Paul has to be pouring magic sauce into that ancient 920/gen 1 vertex array!

[dinos22]

has anyone compared 1231ml vs 1880 with SSDs

also cache size performance scaling

[xeon_1]

ty for the link eva. Bad psu! my zues 1200w has taken a shat all over me...LOL 3.3 v is borked. jumped the zues and used it for everything except mobo, then hooked my good ol pc&p 750 just to the 24-pin and it is running like a champ.
ordered a st1500 so i dont have to worry about it for awhile. gonna explore rma with the zm1200 and see what they say.
been just pounding with this thing trying to get above 4.3 for the love of christ, with a chip i have hit 4.6 with easily in the past, very frustrating it took me that long to pinpoint it. the only good thing is that i did tweak the hell outta the raid and card etc for ultimate setup...so now i am in perfect position!

Good the see you found it.

I had that happen to me once on my first s939 board also took me a while to find it
But there is was a 12V line

[SteveRo]

has anyone compared 1231ml vs 1880 with SSDs

also cache size performance scaling

I'm planning on doing a 1231 vs 1880 but probably not till next month.
And probably not SSDs but up to 12x acards

Mr Dinos, sir - why not YOU do it for us!!

[dinos22]

i would if i had the cards. I borrowed the card from areca and they are asking for it to be sent back....
i also dont have any 4GB sticks nor do i have the 1880 card to compare

[SteveRo]

Maybe areca would let you borrow both a 1231 and an 1880 and you could do a nice write up for them?

[dinos22]

i dont know it went through HQ so i dont know what those people discuss but i would certainly love to do that. Ive spent a lot of time on it already. This storage business is very addictive ... so has my mate James

[SteveRo]

Yes, very time consuming!
There are so many tweakable variables and the veriables interact - trying to find optimum is sometimes more an art than a science.

[Nizzen]

Some other 1880 fun..

16xhitachi 2tb raid-0

I going to test performance @ raid-5 and raid-6. I have to have something to fill up the ports on the controller

And 4gb cache test soon

[Computurd]

ancient 920/gen 1 vertex array!

This 920 is rockin until the SB 2011 socket is out...

I'm planning on doing a 1231 vs 1880 but probably not till next month.

was wondering when you would bite!

@nizzen..jesus that is a ton of devices! would be fun to play with
how long until you get your 4gb and come to kill me?

[Nizzen]

This 920 is rockin until the SB 2011 socket is out...



was wondering when you would bite!

@nizzen..jesus that is a ton of devices! would be fun to play with
how long until you get your 4gb and come to kill me?

UPS is killing me

Friday it was in germany or so... Fingers crossed for tomorrow

Until then I have fun with 32TB fresh HardDisks

I do not know what the spike is, but who cares

[Computurd]

good gives me time to get set for my final trick..the coup de grace...never used it with the 1880, works with 1680&1231 (hint , they have something the 9260 doesnt)(and not cache!), but didnt work with the 9260 OR 9211...the last trick in my hat (once i am in optimal setup)...good for some serious points...

[SteveRo]

@ Mr. Nizzen - the very nice huge 2500+ MB/s spike on hd tune writes is most likely your cache - when you go to the 4GB it should probably be same huge speed and last longer (a "wider") spike.

Alright Mr. CT! - will you take down Mr Planet?
That will be most impressive if you do - that's another - almost - 1700 points.

edit - sounds like you're both happy with your areca purchase so far?

[Computurd]

I am leaving the wife....running off with 1880!

[SteveRo]

If you keep the 1880 powered up it can even keep you warm at night

[Computurd]

VERY warm!!

[F.E.A.R.]

Which is the right 4GB-module? Minimum DDR2-800 (PC-6400)???

http://translate.google.com/translat..._1x%26sort%3Dr


@ Computurd

Please shot a pic from the module-label (ram-timings)

[Computurd]

there are only two known sticks that work at 800 mhz and they are--
(i have been through three sticks that were incompatible so there is no wiggle room here)

KVR800D2D8P6/4G kingston

UG51T7200N8DR-8CC unigen. to my knowledge not publicly available yet.

these are the onlly two that will work. this is per areca tech support. i am using unigen. i have a 2g of the kingston, but havent used it.
there are many that will work with 2 gb

[F.E.A.R.]

there are only two known sticks that work at 800 mhz and they are--
(i have been through three sticks that were incompatible so there is no wiggle room here)

KVR800D2D8P6/4G kingston

UG51T7200N8DR-8CC unigen. to my knowledge not publicly available yet.

these are the onlly two that will work. this is per areca tech support. i am using unigen. i have a 2g of the kingston, but havent used it.
there are many that will work with 2 gb

410€ or US-$ 525 http://geizhals.at/deutschland/a363721.html


Why not these modules?

http://translate.googleusercontent.c...73lOWrsnZ5HoMQ

http://translate.googleusercontent.c...a3F-DPVz3bCFrg

[Computurd]

same thing i said. multiple times. thats why i kept buying and they kept not working.

The spec is:
512M x 72-bit 4GB (4096MB) DDR2-800 CL6 SDRAM
(Synchronous DRAM) "dual rank" Registered w/Parity memory module. The
components on
this module include eighteen 256M x 8-bit DDR2-800 SDRAM in FBGA packages.
This 240-
pin DIMM uses gold contact fingers and requires +1.8V

it MUST be x8 or x16... (18 IC only is what is making it hard to find a
replacement.)

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...0&postcount=28