upgrade help :S

ajcollins2 · 26 May 2009 at 19:10

Multisector read test
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N Blocks N Reps Time,ms Speed,MB/s
1 1000 125 3.906250
11 2000 485 22.148840
21 4000 859 47.748108
32 4000 1125 55.555556
42 4000 1469 55.841559
53 4000 1828 56.627804
63 4000 2140 57.498540
74 4000 2360 61.242055
84 4000 2687 61.057871
95 4000 3391 54.717451
105 4000 6953 29.494912
116 4000 3937 57.546990
126 4000 4078 60.346677
137 4000 4813 55.594873
147 4000 4984 57.606215
158 4000 5109 60.401987
168 4000 5891 55.699372
179 4000 6188 56.497960
189 4000 6109 60.425704
200 4000 6437 60.684325
Random read test
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Random range N reps Time,ms Speed,MB/s
488375936 100 1297 0.037647
244187968 200 2281 0.042813
122093984 400 4000 0.048828
61046992 400 3766 0.051862
30523496 800 7859 0.049704
15261748 800 7875 0.049603
7630874 800 7406 0.052744
3815437 800 6656 0.058688
1907718 800 6532 0.059802
953859 800 5063 0.077153
476929 800 5407 0.072244
238464 800 4843 0.080658
119232 800 4282 0.091225
59616 800 3546 0.110159
29808 1600 5157 0.151493
14904 1600 2281 0.342503
7452 3200 547 2.856490
3726 6400 640 4.882813
1863 12800 1282 4.875195
931 25600 2562 4.879001
465 51200 5094 4.907735
232 51200 5141 4.862867
116 51200 5140 4.863813
58 51200 5078 4.923198
29 51200 5016 4.984051
14 51200 5297 4.719653
7 51200 5265 4.748338
3 51200 5079 4.922229

ajcollins2 · 27 May 2009 at 20:44

I made a boo boo, my HDD is SATA not Raid, whats the difference?

ajcollins2 · 31 May 2009 at 10:22

Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (WD6401AALS)
PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Quad-Crossfire PCI-E 750W Power Supply
*OVERCLOCKED* Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) 2.66Ghz @ 4.00GHz / Gigabyte EX58-UD5 Intel X58 Motherboard / OCZ Gold 6GB DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz DDR3 Bundle
Asus GeForce GTX 285 1024MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail

Sound Any good?

RJC · 31 May 2009 at 10:43

ajcollins2 said:
I made a boo boo, my HDD is SATA not Raid, whats the difference?

RAID is were you run several HD'S together, ie RAID 0 combines the 2 hard drives as one ie 2 150gb will show as 300gb as the data is stored accross both discs, RAID 1 mirrors the data to the 2nd disc which means if one disc fails the other disc will keep going and you want loose all your data.

Check wikipedia for a better explaination

SATA is how the HD'S are connected to the motherboard, all modern pc's use this method instead of the old IDE cable.

ajcollins2 said:
Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (WD6401AALS)
PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Quad-Crossfire PCI-E 750W Power Supply
*OVERCLOCKED* Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) 2.66Ghz @ 4.00GHz / Gigabyte EX58-UD5 Intel X58 Motherboard / OCZ Gold 6GB DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz DDR3 Bundle
Asus GeForce GTX 285 1024MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail

Sound Any good?

Looks pretty good

ajcollins2 · 31 May 2009 at 19:11

Thanks RJC, I am thinking i should get the card out lol. How do i know What PCI-E slot to use though? ie PCI-E x1, x4, x8, x16 for my graphics card??

user1453 · 31 May 2009 at 19:27

longest slots are x16, shortest x4, put you gfx card in the top or middle x16 slot

if you put a card in the bottom x16 slot the bottom and middle x16 slots become x8 electrical

ajcollins2 · 31 May 2009 at 21:31

lol right, i think i get ya there :s will have a look at that, thank you

ajcollins2 · 2 Jun 2009 at 18:54

taken the plunge, this is what i went for:-
Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) 2.66Ghz @ 4.00GHz
Gigabyte EX58-UD5 Intel X58 Motherboard
OCZ Gold 6GB DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz DDR3
Asus GeForce GTX 285 1024MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio 7.1 Sound Card
Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB SATA-II 32MB Cache
PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Quad-Crossfire PCI-E 750W Power Supply
1 X Titan TTC-NK85TZ Fenrir CPU Cooler

Many Thanks Guys

RJC · 2 Jun 2009 at 19:58

Nice spec

PS - Your sig is to big, max 4 lines of std text

ajcollins2 · 2 Jun 2009 at 20:03

Thanks for the heads up RJC, is this sig better? On thing that i don't know is how much heatsink compound to use, is it a tiny smear or a generous amount?

RJC · 2 Jun 2009 at 20:09

It depends on what heatsink compound comes with the cooler, usually just a tiny smear will do.

Sig is 7 lines, maximum is 4 lines width your fine, just the height.