Hard drive affecting overclocking

l33t-krew

l33t-krew

l33t-krew

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Hello all. You may have noticed my overclocking thread.

Here are few pics below to remind you. I was fairly disappointed and when booting today I noticed it said on one of the bios screens

320gb IDE 133 HDD.


WTH! My Hard drive is a SATAII Seagate Barracuda 7200.10. Will this be making any changes to my speed, how can I check???

Also how would I correct this problem?


Thanks a lot people.
 
Are the SATA ports configured as IDE in the BIOS? I run mine in AHCI mode to make the most of SATA2 and NCQ.
 
the question is will it be slowing me down... ;)

thanks for info will have a look now.

Here is my current 3DMark06 score

Disappointing. Will the hdd rates be slowing it?

P.s how can I tell the speeds? Are there any benchmarks?
 
P.s Brought me new ram today


4GB OCZ Dual Channel PC2-6400 Gold Edition XTC

2X2Gb CL 5-5-5-18 Gold Vista Edition Memory with Gold XTC Heatspreader

Crap Latencys but the 4gb makes up for it.

Have yet to pay the Guy am I am still thinking (Brought of a site for £250. Would have brought of OC but they were charging £281 exc postage which for me would be £22.


I am still tempted to get 4gb (4x1gb) Geil 800mhz 4-4-4-12 for £180 but am not sure if it will limit me in the long run.


P.ps Also my finger is hovering over the Quad Core Q6600 for £340 delivered. Should I do it? :confused: Lol
 
IAmATeaf said:
Are the SATA ports configured as IDE in the BIOS? I run mine in AHCI mode to make the most of SATA2 and NCQ.
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Sorry to thread hijack but... How do you run as AHCI? I've noticed this in my P5BD BIOS but it needs drivers to use the harddrives, so I left it as IDE. Is there much benefit in switching to AHCI? I'm probably overdue a format anyway so its not a major issue if I have to...
 
Street said:
Sorry to thread hijack but... How do you run as AHCI? I've noticed this in my P5BD BIOS but it needs drivers to use the harddrives, so I left it as IDE. Is there much benefit in switching to AHCI? I'm probably overdue a format anyway so its not a major issue if I have to...
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If you're going to do a reformat then you'll need to do an F6 to load the drivers at that stage or if you have another SATA controller say provided by a JMicron controller then you can set that to run in IDE mode, move the OS disk across to that, set the main SATA controller to AHCI, boot up then install the drivers, then move the OS disk back onto the main Intel SATA controller.
 
l33t-krew said:
the question is will it be slowing me down... ;)

thanks for info will have a look now.

Here is my current 3DMark06 score

Disappointing. Will the hdd rates be slowing it?

P.s how can I tell the speeds? Are there any benchmarks?
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Should make a diff for burst mode access as IDE would peak at a max of 133 whereas SATA2 is 300, not too sure if the diffs would be major in real world use. Next time I reformat and do an install I'll do some benchies.
 
l33t-krew said:
P.s Brought me new ram today


4GB OCZ Dual Channel PC2-6400 Gold Edition XTC

2X2Gb CL 5-5-5-18 Gold Vista Edition Memory with Gold XTC Heatspreader

Crap Latencys but the 4gb makes up for it.

Have yet to pay the Guy am I am still thinking (Brought of a site for £250. Would have brought of OC but they were charging £281 exc postage which for me would be £22.


I am still tempted to get 4gb (4x1gb) Geil 800mhz 4-4-4-12 for £180 but am not sure if it will limit me in the long run.
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You may be taking a cost hit now, but you'll be glad you did in 12 months time. 2 2Gb sticks is the way to go. With the way RAM prices are crumbling you'll be able to buy another 2 sticks for £100 soon.
 
Hello.

Did HDTach 8mb benchmark

Burst speed was 218.1mb/s

read speed 62.8mb/s

Random access 13.9ms

Cpu utlisation 4%

However this was done with 6xwindows explorers open, Steam, Limewire, Creative audio console, 3d online poker and loads o logitch stuff
 
WJA96 said:
You may be taking a cost hit now, but you'll be glad you did in 12 months time. 2 2Gb sticks is the way to go. With the way RAM prices are crumbling you'll be able to buy another 2 sticks for £100 soon.
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Should I get the 2x2gb For £250 or 4x1gb Geil pc6400 for £160?
 
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