[18th Anniversary] Asus Black Pearl - P5k-Premium Testing Report

[sesdave]

Unfortunatley the sticks i have are single sided,though they are still better than the 6400 ocz reapers which struggled over 1000mhz.I have the tracers on 1080mhz 5.5.5.15 at the moment,i will be seeing what they can do soon though.

Is that the end of the great clocking crucial sticks then? its a shame if it is.What are gonna be the next big thing then in ram sticks?

I'm gonna change my drives to 2x500gb soon,though i dont have a lot on my pc,if its better with them then so be it.because i'm using samsung drives now,does that mean my board is ok? do samsung drives not work at all on boards with the iffy sata controller?

Thanks for the reply

Here a review of the single sided 8500's - same chips as the new tracers. http://www.digitalreport.net/content/view/79/1/1/1/ whilst not as good as the old doesnt look all doom and gloom . What are you running SATA at - IDE or AHCI. If already on AHCI you definately wont encounter any problems with using RAID.
If you havent got too much data have a go on the 2 x 250GB - be a good test for setting up matrix raid0/1. It the size of the RAID0 that gives the performance and the more drives its spread over the better e.g 4 to give you a RAID5 or 10 configuration. If you use 80Gb(2x40) that leaves you 210Gb for the data cos the RAID1 is mirrored(2x210). Make sure u use the latest storage manager and RAID drivers http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Prod...ProductID=2101 The latest 640GB model drives with higher density platters e.g 320GB will give the best performance /capacity but at a hefty price. Its not really worth it unless you want to be top of the HD tach/Tune tree on the enter the matrix postings! I use Acronis 11 for backup/recovery - I had a problem that the standard recoveryCD couldnt see my drives on the P5k(known problem) but the vendors tech team have now given me a nonstandard ISOrecovery image that works with the p5K premium so I am a happy bunny!