Asus Z9PE-D8 WS with 64GB of registered ECC ram.|Dell 30" LCD 3008wfp:7970 video card
LSI series raid controller
SSDs: Crucial C300 256GB
Standard drives: Seagate ST32000641AS & WD 1TB black
OSes: Linux and Windows x64
Ace,Ian:
Both you guys seem to be decent people.
Start fresh and shake hands.
Remember, friends first ok..
Yes, I do sound like your mother..
I'll say it for you.
Crunch with us, the XS WCG team
The XS WCG team needs your support.
A good project with good goals.
Come join us,get that warm fuzzy feeling that you've done something good for mankind.
done!..we shaked hands in a PM.
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IP35 Pro: 9650@4000Mhz, par overclocker; Freezone Elite; 4Gb GSkill DDR-800@DDR-1068 (2 x 2gb); XFX 8800 GTS; Areca 8X PCIe in Raid 0 working at 4x speed; 4-250 Gb (single platter) 7200.10 drives; Giga 3DAurora case with side window.
Crunch with us, the XS WCG team
The XS WCG team needs your support.
A good project with good goals.
Come join us,get that warm fuzzy feeling that you've done something good for mankind.
I am embarrased by my comments which were unworthy of me. I am well aware that Ace's experienced opinion IS worth a damn and I never meant to suggest otherwise. I'm happy he has accepted my apology anyway.
Thanks for the intervention, Movieman.
I got a Adaptec 31205 pci-e x8 kontroller, and i have a LSI pcie-x4 kontroller.
Testet with my Abit x38 MB. Adaptec 31205 works in the blue pci.e 2.0 slot and the LSI works in the black pci-e 1.1 slot!!
This was the best day for me!
So on my ix38 i have 8800 ultra, LSI sas pci-e x4 and Adaptec pci-e x8
And 8 Seagate 15k.5 73 gb
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IP35 Pro: 9650@4000Mhz, par overclocker; Freezone Elite; 4Gb GSkill DDR-800@DDR-1068 (2 x 2gb); XFX 8800 GTS; Areca 8X PCIe in Raid 0 working at 4x speed; 4-250 Gb (single platter) 7200.10 drives; Giga 3DAurora case with side window.
BIOSTAR TPOWER I45 UNOFFICIAL THREAD
BIOSTAR TPOWER BOLT MOD FOR HEATPIPE AND HEATSINK
BIOSTAR TPOWER I45 BIOS FLASHING PROCEDURE
ABIT IP35 PRO HEATPIPE MOD
ABIT IP35 PRO BIOS FLASHING PROCEDURE
IP35 Pro: 9650@4000Mhz, par overclocker; Freezone Elite; 4Gb GSkill DDR-800@DDR-1068 (2 x 2gb); XFX 8800 GTS; Areca 8X PCIe in Raid 0 working at 4x speed; 4-250 Gb (single platter) 7200.10 drives; Giga 3DAurora case with side window.
Please can someone help me!
BIOSTAR TPOWER I45 UNOFFICIAL THREAD
BIOSTAR TPOWER BOLT MOD FOR HEATPIPE AND HEATSINK
BIOSTAR TPOWER I45 BIOS FLASHING PROCEDURE
ABIT IP35 PRO HEATPIPE MOD
ABIT IP35 PRO BIOS FLASHING PROCEDURE
IP35 Pro: 9650@4000Mhz, par overclocker; Freezone Elite; 4Gb GSkill DDR-800@DDR-1068 (2 x 2gb); XFX 8800 GTS; Areca 8X PCIe in Raid 0 working at 4x speed; 4-250 Gb (single platter) 7200.10 drives; Giga 3DAurora case with side window.
Which would be the better card card for the Abit IX38 where only 1 graphics card slot is being used.
AMCC 3Ware 9650SE-4LPML Serial ATA II Hardware RAID Controller Kit 4-port
or
Areca ARC-1210, 4 Port PCI-E SATAII RAID Controller
Anything else I should be considering?
Thanks.
GigaByte EP45-UD3P F7, Q9650 @ 4GHz 1.28125v, 4x1GB Crucial 8500, Dominator fans, CoolerMaster Pro 850W, 2x320GB in RAID0, EVGA 8800 Ultra, SATA Blu-Ray, Cooled by: Thermaltake, S-Flex, Swiftec, Laing & Tygon.
areca released a firmware and bios update for all their cards 1.44 http://www.areca.com.tw/support/main.htm which now allows me to get into the bios on my X38.
Last edited by safan80; 04-04-2008 at 06:44 PM.
Asus Z9PE-D8 WS with 64GB of registered ECC ram.|Dell 30" LCD 3008wfp:7970 video card
LSI series raid controller
SSDs: Crucial C300 256GB
Standard drives: Seagate ST32000641AS & WD 1TB black
OSes: Linux and Windows x64
Asus Z9PE-D8 WS with 64GB of registered ECC ram.|Dell 30" LCD 3008wfp:7970 video card
LSI series raid controller
SSDs: Crucial C300 256GB
Standard drives: Seagate ST32000641AS & WD 1TB black
OSes: Linux and Windows x64
confirm.. asus maximus extreme and areca 1210 statup BIOS entering works now
about TIME! with 1.44 firmware
Asus Rampage 2 Extreme BIOS 1639
Intel Core i7 920 @ 4.0Ghz
6GB Corsair Dominator 1600 Mhz
2 x GTX285 SLI
1 x Agility EX RAID0
1 Samsung 1TB HD
Creative XFI Titanium Fatal1ty PCI-E
Motherboard SB-NB-Mosfet and CPU-GFX watercooled
I just have a couple of questions guys, I just use my system for playing games, and like them to load as fast as pssable, now I know that ram cpu ect are all factors, but do these Areca cards make much of a differance compared to say the onboard raid on most Motherboards?
I run an x38 as well and was thinking about investing in an Areca Card
The simple answer is NO, for non-parity RAID such as RAID 0 or RAID 1 (mirror). The CPU overhead that you can offload to a dedicated card only becomes an issue with parity RAID, 5 or 6, as it's calculating that parity (getting the data of a particular byte in a stripe for every disk in the RAID set, then doing an XOR or similar operation on those bytes, then writing it out to the parity stripe/disk or checking it against the previously calculated parity byte there) that is time-intensive when it's done only in software.
Check the Hardware/Storage subforum for in-depth discussion on this. But bottom line: if you are using disks that your mobo Southbridge supports in RAID and are only using RAID 0 or 1, you are better off saving the money or adding more disks to your RAID set for more speed. A RAID card would be wasted.
Could you tell me how you did it?
I flashed all 3 files using the web service to version 1.44 and I still get the BIOS not found error on boot-up. I have it plugged into the second pci 16 slot w/ no hard drives attached. I don't want to attach my hard drives until I know for sure that at boot-up my Areca BIOS is found. Any suggestions?
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Just to clarify - that's the important caveat. Check compatability first around the forums, see if anyone has had problems with particular drive models on your mobo. I'm thinking of the well-known Asus P5K Premium issues here, that's my situ and I need a RAID card simply to overcome that and be sure I can attach recent disks (Samsung/WD) without problems. But I think you're using GigaByte, so you should be fine with most makes.
hello
Scuse my language, i'm french.
is what some of you have activated the raid mode Intel with their card controler ?
Can you get to Intel matrix storage (CRTL+I)
Thanks
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