My Dual Harper - Asus Z7S WS living review *56K warning*

[Madman666]

Asus Memcool for Memory - What size fan does this thing take?

You get it with a 70mm noisemaker
I just removed this one put on a 80mm Papst with some silicone kit (works like glue only if you want to, you can still remove it without breaking things).
I even attached another 90mm to cool the NB.
I love my silicone kit

[komseh]

You get it with a 70mm noisemaker
I just removed this one put on a 80mm Papst with some silicone kit (works like glue only if you want to, you can still remove it without breaking things).
I even attached another 90mm to cool the NB.
I love my silicone kit

Could you tell me more about this "silicone kit" and where to get it? Also how much CFM should I have blowing on these FBDIMMs to keep them at a reasonable temp? I picked up a Noctua R8 for this and it blows 31CFM.

[Madman666]

Could you tell me more about this "silicone kit" and where to get it? Also how much CFM should I have blowing on these FBDIMMs to keep them at a reasonable temp? I picked up a Noctua R8 for this and it blows 31CFM.

Just use plain Silicone kit you can buy at your local DIY shop.
BTW: Let it sufficiently dry, so for at least 4 hours.

I use a Papst fan (80mm), ± 20CFM, temps of my 4x2 Gb FBDimms are 50C Idle, 65C Load. So your fan will be fine.

[drewhemm]

Hi,

I am having another issue with this board now - the Intel RAID controller. I have an Adaptec 2405 hardware RAID controller but it didn't come with the cable so I now have to wait another couple of weeks for that to arrive...

I am using 2 x OCZ Core 60GB SSD's in RAID0, two Hitachi 160GB Deskstars in RAID0 and 1 x WD 250GB hard drive as a standalone. I've heard that other people are having bad performance with the OCZ SSD's while running RAID on an on-board controller, but my system seems to be having problems with the Hitachi's as well.

The symptoms of the problem appears to be related to writing data. As soon as the controller starts to write a large amount of data on one drive (not necessarily the SSD's), for example 1GB+ during an install of a program, the whole system freezes and the HD activity light stays on solid. This freeze can last for a few seconds up to a minute, typically as long as there is write activity going on. Everything else grinds to a halt and it is like having only one CPU core and it being maxxed out, there's no hourglass and I can move the mouse, just when I click on things, nothing happens.

Has anyone else had problems similar to this? I know I have the Adaptec nearly ready to install, but my curiosity wants to know why I am having problems with the on-board on a high-end motherboard like this. I was able to use the on-board RAID on my old HP motherboard and never had this problem.

I have the Intel Matrix Storage Manager installed and have tried with the write-back cache enabled and disabled and it seems to make no difference.

Any advice?

Regards,

Andrew