Originally Posted by XtremeTiramisu
It seems the WD drives are one of the worst with this board. I gave up on WD 3 years ago and went with Maxtors & Seagates and I've never been happier.
The Maxtors, where the OS's and games will be
The Seagates, backups, music & movies
Hope you get it all worked out for you, what ever you do. I wish I could get the new X38 DFI baby! I may for Xmas!
My Rig
PC Power & Cooling 750--- MSI GD65--- Xeon x3440 - 20x180 +Turbo @ 1.35v--- EVGA 8800GTX @ Stock
4g G-Skill @ 900 7-8-7-24 / 2-10 ratio
1tb Samsung--- 2x 320g Maxtor--- 500g Seagate
Auzentech X-fi 7.1--- Altec Lansing 251
Triplel rad--- Apogee GTZ
28" Hanns-g LCD
It's not the WD 5000AAKS 500GB fault.It seems the WD drives are one of the worst with this board. I gave up on WD 3 years ago and went with Maxtors & Seagates and I've never been happier.
The Maxtors, where the OS's and games will be
The Seagates, backups, music & movies
Hope you get it all worked out for you, what ever you do. I wish I could get the new X38 DFI baby! I may for Xmas!
Cos it's running lightning fast in AHCI configuration.
Please note that I only have ONE hard drive. Not like the RAID config u have there.
The following screen shot was taken today. It was from my P5K-Deluxe system. I've the exact same drive in my P5K-Premium system. Both have identicle HD bench results from the latest HD Tune.
While the system runs ok in the P5K-Premium, the hard drive activity and everything else are fine but as soon as the abnormal HDD activity kicks in, the system would freeze for 2-3 mins. This happends intermittently which is veyr annoying to a point that I cannot use the system and I'm using my P5K-Deluxe..
As for a single HD score, it's cosiderably higher score than a lot of other single HDD bench I've seen from others running in IDE or AHCI.
This is with the newest Intel storage manager driver. I noticed the curve and the burst rate is smoother and a bit faster than the previous driver
Xtreme Air-Cooled OC System:
Mobo: Asus Rampage Formula (X38 Edition) Rev 1.03G (BIOS: 0803)
CPU: C2Q Q6600 "G0" L723A765, VID 1.2625, 3720mhz, FSB 465*8, Vcore: 1.464, Idle/load temp: 31c/64c
CPU Heatsink: Thermalright Ultra120 Xtreme lapped (2* Scythe S-Flex SFF21F S-FDB 120mm Push-Pull configuration)
RAM: Kingston HyperX T1 2x2GB PC2-8500 (DDR2-1116)(5-5-5-15-3-52-6-3-8-3-5-4-6-4-6-14-5-1-5-5)(2.264 Vdimm)(Rated @ 2.3v default clock)
HDD: Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB WD6401AALS-00L3B (AHCI)
Video Card: XFX 8800GTS 320mb Xtreme, Core 612 Shader 1420 Mem 900 (Stock cooling)
Sound Card: Auzentech Meridian 7.1 (8788 chipset)
DVD: Pioneer 212D SATA DVD-RW
PSU: Corsair HX620W Modular
Xtreme Air Cooled Case: Antec 900 case | 3*120mm intake | 1*120mm & 1*200mm exhuast
OS: Vista Ultimate x64 SP1 Build 6001
mine is a TW that came with the 0102 bios
i still got the double boot problem...
installed server 2003 x64 with no problems, besides install being really slow on my raptor. ended up running it in ide mode
i think I am also going to rma it and also just get credit aswell....
also I think my p5k deluxe is a better oc'er
I installed 0302 beta bios... but then for whatever reason, windows only saw 3 cores... could have just been a bad flash, but decided to go with 0204
Very impressed with the P5K Premium thus far
Some results to come, takes .5v less on this board for processor, as well it runs much cooler than the deluxe.
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