Good evening,

Ok - got it working but not that great - acard support said I had to drop back to sata1 via jumpers on the acards - well it works but at sata1 speeds
Even so with the the 1680's 2GB cache and the good small IOP performance of the acards the numbers aren't as bad as I expected.

Test system is i7 965 on Gigabyte extreme mobo, 3x1GB G. Skill 2000/C9, 2xGTX295 Quad SLI (koolance blocks), cpu and vc's water cooled via 2xBoreas all in series. Boot drive via mtron 16GB and non-1690 controller (on the mobo), Acard array standalone on the 1680 (exception - the acards are the boot array on 1680for PCMark05)

Clocks - cpu @ 4.48 (35x128) ht off, memory @ 1792 (99924), pcie @101

Memory used in the Acard's - G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 800 Dual Channel Kit Model F2-6400CL5D-4GBNT - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231207

Previous benches on ich10r are at - http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=229410

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