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Just got another Rig together over the weekend--up till 4 am and all that as usual.
I call this one Luminus. The name just sort of arrived in my head when I first saw her all put together.
Case is from taeric--an Aluminus Ultra--silver, very lightweight, tall, long, sort of narrow--with a big window.
The interior is so huge that it looks really clean after a little cable management.
For the nonce I have an FX57, Asus A8NSLI, 2GB OCZ, 2 Cheetahs in RAID1, and 2 x 160GB SATA3.0 in nothing--as the NVraid controller will not do a thing I want it to just yet--an x1950pro (I bought two to try Crossfire--but having no Crossfire mobo I am running it single), and my personal favorite: an 800 Watt PSU with 54A devided between the quad rails. That is the phattest PSU I have ever owned--not sure if it is good make though (BFG) but it does have a warranty so whatever...
Not thrilled at all with the SCSI set up--it is slow as mole asses. When I have the time I will try and update the HBA BIOS and see if RAID0 performs any better.
Nothing to show yet as far as Benches, but I will post them as I go along.
Currently Clocking the FX57 at 2700mhz--apparently stable.
One downside of the light aluminum case is that is incredibly NOISY. I mean like a dishwasher or laundry machine or something--the fans/'drives reverberate throughout so I will need to put some matting in there. The Dynex fans are el cheapo Best Buy units that make some noise--but it does not seem to be one particular thing--everything together more like.
Anyway--it was a relief to be dealing with a familiar BIOS (Asus) but I am still somewhat annoyed by the NF4 chipset in regards to it's RAID host. I have RAID enabled, the channels enabled, the Motherboard drivers installed--and still the drives do not show either in Windows or during the POST. I must be missing something. I have been through the BIOS again and again looking for that missed option that will magically make the SATA drives appear.
Wierd..
ICHR FTW IMO
I call this one Luminus. The name just sort of arrived in my head when I first saw her all put together.
Case is from taeric--an Aluminus Ultra--silver, very lightweight, tall, long, sort of narrow--with a big window.
The interior is so huge that it looks really clean after a little cable management.
For the nonce I have an FX57, Asus A8NSLI, 2GB OCZ, 2 Cheetahs in RAID1, and 2 x 160GB SATA3.0 in nothing--as the NVraid controller will not do a thing I want it to just yet--an x1950pro (I bought two to try Crossfire--but having no Crossfire mobo I am running it single), and my personal favorite: an 800 Watt PSU with 54A devided between the quad rails. That is the phattest PSU I have ever owned--not sure if it is good make though (BFG) but it does have a warranty so whatever...
Not thrilled at all with the SCSI set up--it is slow as mole asses. When I have the time I will try and update the HBA BIOS and see if RAID0 performs any better.
Nothing to show yet as far as Benches, but I will post them as I go along.
Currently Clocking the FX57 at 2700mhz--apparently stable.
One downside of the light aluminum case is that is incredibly NOISY. I mean like a dishwasher or laundry machine or something--the fans/'drives reverberate throughout so I will need to put some matting in there. The Dynex fans are el cheapo Best Buy units that make some noise--but it does not seem to be one particular thing--everything together more like.
Anyway--it was a relief to be dealing with a familiar BIOS (Asus) but I am still somewhat annoyed by the NF4 chipset in regards to it's RAID host. I have RAID enabled, the channels enabled, the Motherboard drivers installed--and still the drives do not show either in Windows or during the POST. I must be missing something. I have been through the BIOS again and again looking for that missed option that will magically make the SATA drives appear.
Wierd..
ICHR FTW IMO
