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HIS Radeon 5870 performance problems

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I thought you might be interested to know I have sorted the problem - as I suspected in the end, the Highpoint RocketRAID 2320 was killing the performance by throttling the north bridge.

I've replaced the 2320 with a RocketRAID 3560 (upgraded to 2gig of onboard RAM) and it is now flying. The RAID5 array is reporting a transfer rate in excess of 500mb/sec in HD Tune, yet there is 0% CPU usage (it was around 15% with the 2320).

This has freed up the 5870 which is now excelling - I just got 23000+ in 3dmark without configuring it properly and on the old drivers. All of the previous problems are now corrected. So it would seem that you can have a media server and gaming machine in one...you just need to spend a lot on the RAID card :)

For those that are interested the spec of the system is now:

Asus P6T7 WS Supercomputer
Intel i7 950 @ 3.07 ghz
6gb of RAM
350gb Raptor – boot drive
2tb Seagate- network drive
9 x Seagate 1.5tb drives in a RAID 5 array via a Highpoint RocketRAID 3560 (2gb of onboard RAM)
Pioneer 5090 Plasma display @ 1920 x 1080
Corsair HX450W running RAID array and a 1000w supply feeding the rest
 
Ryx said:
I thought you might be interested to know I have sorted the problem - as I suspected in the end, the Highpoint RocketRAID 2320 was killing the performance by throttling the north bridge.

I've replaced the 2320 with a RocketRAID 3560 (upgraded to 2gig of onboard RAM) and it is now flying. The RAID5 array is reporting a transfer rate in excess of 500mb/sec in HD Tune, yet there is 0% CPU usage (it was around 15% with the 2320).

This has freed up the 5870 which is now excelling - I just got 23000+ in 3dmark without configuring it properly and on the old drivers. All of the previous problems are now corrected. So it would seem that you can have a media server and gaming machine in one...you just need to spend a lot on the RAID card :)

For those that are interested the spec of the system is now:

Asus P6T7 WS Supercomputer
Intel i7 950 @ 3.07 ghz
6gb of RAM
350gb Raptor – boot drive
2tb Seagate- network drive
9 x Seagate 1.5tb drives in a RAID 5 array via a Highpoint RocketRAID 3560 (2gb of onboard RAM)
Pioneer 5090 Plasma display @ 1920 x 1080
Corsair HX450W running RAID array and a 1000w supply feeding the rest
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You're bloody crazy! Those rocketRAID cards are £600!

Surely you would have been better off just building a cheap core2 based PC and using that as a media server? :eek: :p
 
Ryx said:
For those that are interested the spec of the system is now:

Asus P6T7 WS Supercomputer
Intel i7 950 @ 3.07 ghz
6gb of RAM
350gb Raptor – boot drive
2tb Seagate- network drive
9 x Seagate 1.5tb drives in a RAID 5 array via a Highpoint RocketRAID 3560 (2gb of onboard RAM)
Pioneer 5090 Plasma display @ 1920 x 1080
Corsair HX450W running RAID array and a 1000w supply feeding the rest
Click to expand...

Jesus dude, that is some system. Porn stash must be h0000000000ge :D

Props to ya :cool:
 
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