Quote Originally Posted by kkelln View Post
Hi Skorpn and thanks for the speedy reply. I had the Rampage II Extreme and paid an extra $200 to upgrade to the Rampage III just so I would have SATA3 ...I am going to puke now. Okay, so forgetting about the Marvell controller (it will always be Maxell to me), why might Crysis crash so consistently on my Intel controller when in Raid 0? Keep in mind that I have tried it with two different sets of drives (OCZ SOlid x 2 and OCZ Vertex3 x2), and I have tried several different stripe sizes. The system seems otherwise stable. It is not a BSOD but just tells me that DirectX has crashed. On the very same install cloned to one of the drives but NOT in raid 0, it never crashes. Any ideas?

I am still fuming about throwing $200 away for two ports I wont even be using.

THANKS AGAIN FOR THE HELP!
Kirk
I am in the EXACT same boat as you, plus I wanted this board for its looks and I just happened to have a few grand extra to blow on the day I was looking for a replacement for my Maximus Formula. I think the SATA III and USB 3.0 claims was one of the top reasons I got this board, but don't forget they were the first ones available, and ultimately "WE" the early adopters are the ones who suffer trying stuff first. Patience is necessary when jumping onto new tech, especially tech that promises great advances. I somehow knew that it was going to be crap so I have never really bothered with it. I was more interested in what USB 3.0 has to offer, but then again the products to use it wasn't there either at first. I finally got myself a USB 3.0 enclosure and just shoved a OCZ SSD into it, and got well over 100mb/s transfer on my USB 3 port, but it took a while and a few firmware releases and drivers to get there. But Im afraid the Marvell controller, although has improved some, is just not going to give us what we want. For something affordable we have to wait for descent Intel ICH controllers to hit.

For your Crysis problem I must admit I have no clue as to why that would be happening, you have the same board as I do and the same game, so the only differing factors could be video cards, and/or SSD/s. Did you upgrade to the latest 1.9 version of Crysis? I did and I had nothing but crashes ever since, and I have not even tried yet since rebuilding my OS last weekend. I would install it again, but I think Im done with that game tbh... not sure yet....

As zoson said, maybe give that modded bios a try, not sure if its 1301 or 1401 but it has the latest ICH firmware built in. Also make sure your using 10.6 or newer rapid storage drivers. Also, Kirk could you update your signature with a little info on your current setup please, so we can see what your working with?