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post #81 of 100
7/27/09 at 11:12am
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Five drives

1: 128 GB OCZ SSD
4: Hitachi 500GB 7200rpm
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post #82 of 100
7/27/09 at 12:23pm
wicked sweet

O yeah its prob in first post my bad
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post #83 of 100
7/27/09 at 12:59pm
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Nate you'd be happy to know I started Crysis last night. First time playing it. WOW.
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post #84 of 100
7/27/09 at 1:52pm
Hey Girl where are the benchmarks?
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post #85 of 100
7/27/09 at 2:01pm
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Coming.
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post #86 of 100
7/27/09 at 2:03pm
Nice.
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post #87 of 100
7/27/09 at 10:12pm
I like the fact your in Crysis before benchmarking maximum power lol
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post #88 of 100
7/27/09 at 10:37pm
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Originally Posted by Steve@NBF View Post
Nate you'd be happy to know I started Crysis last night. First time playing it. WOW.


I am very happy

i beat both crysis games like 10 times over
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post #89 of 100
7/28/09 at 3:20am
BTw fook id pwn u online in crysis
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post #90 of 100
7/28/09 at 8:15am
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I don't think I'd ever play Crysis online
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post #91 of 100
7/28/09 at 9:55am
yeah got ya
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post #92 of 100
8/5/09 at 11:52am
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Originally Posted by Steve@NBF View Post
Five drives

1: 128 GB OCZ SSD
4: Hitachi 500GB 7200rpm

I have my setup running raid 10 now. ( 4 x 1TB Drives)

It took alot of experimenting with the BIOS setup and XP Raid drivers to get it working.

but with Vista it should just go without the need for drivers I thought ?

but you mentioned 2 Raid controllers - how is it configured with your setup

2 x 2 Sata ports per Controller?

or is it

4 x Sata and 2 x Sata ?

if it is the latter did you have all for drives on the same controller?
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post #93 of 100
8/5/09 at 12:03pm
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There are 8 SATA ports on the mobo. 6 of them are coming out as a right angle on the mobo, and 4 are Red and 2 are Orange. There are also 2 more Red SATA ports on the mobo as straight in connections. The 2 Orange ports are for the 2nd RAID controller and I did not use them.

However, now That I am thinking about it, I should have probably put my Boot drive and my Blu-ray drive on the straight in connections, and the four drives I want in RAID on the right angle connections. The thing is, the controller recognized all four of the drives I wanted in RAID and allowed me to set it up that way. I just can't boot off my OCZ drive for some reason. This is my first time experimenting with RAID.
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post #94 of 100
8/5/09 at 7:56pm
I am sure sure you will find that these ports are divided up over two controllers,

try setting up the 4 drives with the same controller.

Then you will have to get into the BIOS and set the boot priority for the drives, in this case the SSD as the primary boot device.

Now I always configured the raid array as a bootable device - not sure what would happen if you didn't select it as such. but either way your Boot priority settings should determine which drive you boot off of.
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post #95 of 100
8/10/09 at 9:06am
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I'm pretty confident I did this. THe only weird thing I noticed was, in the bios, my boot drive (my OCZ SSD drive), was listed as "RAID: OCZ" where that drive was NOT selected in my raid controller.
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post #96 of 100
8/11/09 at 6:41am
Its been weeks since the new PC arrived and no pics or benches or anything, even with the raid issues

I'd be interested to see what an over the counter brand does compared to self builds, whether its worth the extra or not. Your getting some of the build headaches from working up from a platform, upgrading.

You like or no? just interested not goading. G'Luck.
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post #97 of 100
8/11/09 at 8:25am
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yeah, I've been slow on the pics and benches. This summer has been crazy busy.... Played some L4D last night on it though. was getting over 200+ FPS with everything maxed out. Crazy how Valve develops these games. They look beautiful and run beautiful.
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post #98 of 100
8/11/09 at 3:06pm
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Originally Posted by Steve@NBF View Post
I'm pretty confident I did this. THe only weird thing I noticed was, in the bios, my boot drive (my OCZ SSD drive), was listed as "RAID: OCZ" where that drive was NOT selected in my raid controller.
I am sure that is a result of the BIOS settings for the particular Host controller.

can you tell me which controllers you have

I have found that some controllers are easier to setup than others, and even more so I have found the supplied drivers do not always work properly and can be very easy to mix up when in the windows install option menu tryng to select the correct one to install for Raid operation.

As far as the SSD goes - I found some case it was easier to configure a single Sata drive as IDE when trying to Boot off it (in the BIOS menu) which could be the same controller used for the CD, DVD ROM drives. I don;t think it has much if any impact on performance it more for compatibility.
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post #99 of 100
8/12/09 at 8:39am
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I'll get that info for ya.
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post #100 of 100
9/12/09 at 1:51am
so i presume by now you've beaten crysis?
what did you like about it? what didn't you like about it?

how'd it run on your system?

check this out its the crysis benchmark tool
http://downloads.guru3d.com/download...94c48ce2dd80df
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