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***Official Intel Haswell Thread***

OLDPHART said:
Hi arknor, lol just winding you up, watch them temp's if you go higher, enjoy. ;)
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lol I'm happy with what I have with a small OC, I could no doubt go a lot higher.
but upgrading from a x6 1055t @ stock 3.2ghz it's a big upgrade for me anyway :D

just not as big as last time when I upgraded from a amd 3200+ > x6 1055t :D
that was like travelling 10 years into the future :D ( I seriously don't understand why I skipped dual, tri and quad core cpu's I even bought an e4600 or whatever it was from the members market at one point but for some reason never bothered to get a motherboard)
 
And I still have instability.
Running like 1066MHZ CL9 for stability :p.
Has to be a problem with my RAM and Haswell or my board.

Time to change the RAM next.
 
5UB said:
Update from OcUK
Then feel free to contact us in the Customer Service forum with your order number, we have been informed this morning and have been trying to contact as many customers as we can, however it is hard for us to know who would have received a processor in this state. So please contact us and we can get the processor replaced. And as a gesture of good will, we will replace the OEM processor you originally purchased for a RETAIL version of the processor which will cost you no extra.

Please understand that you will need to send the OEM processor back to us first, and we can send out the RETAIL version to you.

Thank you for your understanding. :)
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So after all that and they issued me a refund and not a replacement retail CPU despite stating such in my RMA with a link to 5UB's post. :confused:
 
JWildfire said:
So after all that and they issued me a refund and not a replacement retail CPU despite stating such in my RMA with a link to 5UB's post. :confused:
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Please contact me in the Pre-Sales enquiries with your order number and I can take an order for you for a retail at the same price as the OEM if you like. :)
 
Hey,

Technically not a CPU question, but it's platform related so :p

Do you guys know if, on the new Intel chipsets, SSDs in RAID are still a problem? IIRC, previously drives were not able to do garbage collection, TRIM etc. when in RAID. Is this still the case?

Cheers,

Su
 
Sumanji said:
Do you guys know if, on the new Intel chipsets, SSDs in RAID are still a problem? IIRC, previously drives were not able to do garbage collection, TRIM etc. when in RAID. Is this still the case?
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Not an issue with Intel since they fixed the driver and O-ROM.... unfortunately a fair few motherboard manufacturers couldn't be arsed to update their BIOS'.

Shouldn't be an issue with the latest bread of boards.

For more info google 'intel orom raid-0 trim' etc
 
Cool thanks - I need to set up a RAID-1 array with two SSDs on a new Dell Haswell machine (Optiplex 9020) - hopefully will work fine in the long run, right?

Cheers,

Su
 
RAID-1 isn't a bad when implemented on decent controllers with hard drives as you can get very good read speeds. With SSDs you already have a decent access and read speed. Write speed will take a hit though but other than that, go for it.
 
Perhaps you should ask Sumanji what exactly he wants.

When he says he needs redundancy that may be exactly what he means.

He should have a backup solution as well but if he wants redundancy then that's what RAID1 is for.
 
Surveyor said:
He should have a backup solution as well but if he wants redundancy then that's what RAID1 is for.
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This :)

The machine cannot afford any down time. I'm under the impression that in RAID-1, a disk failure means I can still boot from the array whilst waiting for a Dell engineer to pop out and replace the failed disk.

And yeah, it will have an external hard disk to back up periodically.

To try and drag the thread back on topic (sorry!), is it worth waiting a few weeks for Core 4xxx products over 3xxx. Sounds like for desktops there is very little additional benefit.

Cheers,

Su
 
Sumanji said:
Hey,

Technically not a CPU question, but it's platform related so :p

Do you guys know if, on the new Intel chipsets, SSDs in RAID are still a problem? IIRC, previously drives were not able to do garbage collection, TRIM etc. when in RAID. Is this still the case?

Cheers,

Su
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I believed that Intel only supported TRIM on RAID 0 for SSDs.
 
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Threw in 4x4GB of Vipers.
Ran 1600MHZ, all going well BSOD.

So it's the board that's knackered, wonderful.
The most annoying part given my loop :(.

I could get a new board in tomorrow, but someone doesn't have stock, guess I'll be RMA'ing the board and getting a VI Hero.
 
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