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#106 Post by **palmboy5** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 1:32 am

No dude,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lane

Directive · #107 Post by **Directive** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 5:54 pm

no wonder why your lanes are clogged, too much traffic.

2005 · #108 Post by **2005** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 6:26 pm

Well the i7 build is complete, up and running.

The stock cooler will not be sufficient. Running 20 passes of Linx has two cores hitting 85 C and two at around 81-82 which is too hot for my liking. Especially at 2.8ghz

I'm thinking of just buying a TRUE and being done with it.

The system is fast, but I really haven't had time to "tinker" with it yet. The only disappointment is in the hard drive. I get a 7.6 - 7.8 out of everything in the windows 7 rating "system" except I get a 6.0 for the hard drive

Tonight when I go to bed I will do a proper system burn in .

2005 · #109 Post by **2005** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 6:27 pm

Oh lol and I had to literally tear the little power supply platform out of the bottom of my P180. I didn't no and never read anywhere that the 850 Antec PSU I bought was of a non standard size.

#110 Post by **palmboy5** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 11:45 pm

Virtually by the design of WinSAT, hard drives are prohibited from ever scoring above 6.0. Not even the raptors can hit 6.1, you have to get SSDs to continue up.

One thing I miss in terms of performance compared to my previous desktop is the multiple HDDs. No, they weren't in RAID, but they allowed smoother multitasking. I can tell things get bogged down on my current desktop when the HDD gets preoccupied with things like DVR recording (the heaviest hitter). It really would help to offload such things to a secondary HDD. Food for thought?

Pictures of your torn out PSU mount and stuffs, plz!

P.S. Wait till you see what I'm cooking up

Directive · #111 Post by **Directive** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 7:33 pm

Bacon and eggs?

OK, sorry. I'll leave you two alone now.

2005 · #112 Post by **2005** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 12:49 am

Lots of pictures to come

And yeah perhaps it would be a good idea to buy another drive. Perhaps a 2TB just for storage and offset drive.

#113 Post by **palmboy5** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 12:56 pm

Directive wrote:Bacon and eggs?

OK, sorry. I'll leave you two alone now.

Naw!

http://www.mylilsite.net/images/compute ... lRAID1.jpg
http://www.mylilsite.net/images/compute ... dBIOS1.jpg
http://www.mylilsite.net/images/compute ... -1/6tb.png

RAID5, first crude effort.

2005 · #114 Post by **2005** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 6:14 pm

Thats pretty F wording sweet... so I take those WDC green's are 1TB each?

Details please

Directive · #115 Post by **Directive** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 6:28 pm

I wish I could get a new computer. I have a second (the replaced one) sata drive, I think 160 gig, but cant use it. I have 2 sata ports, one for my 1TB drive and one using my blu-ray burner. BOOOOOOO

2005 · #116 Post by **2005** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 6:41 pm

I think I'm getting the thermalright Venemous X cooler and two scythe kaze fans..... one for the cooler itself and one to replace my old loud 120mm fan

2005 · #117 Post by **2005** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 6:54 pm

Hmm convertXtoDVD doesn't seem to make good use of hyperthreading or even multithreading

I started coverting grown ups from .avi to dvd format and it was going to take 18 min to convert a 102 minuet movie.

I opened up task manager to find only 1.9 GB of ram being used total and only 22% of the processor. I opened up another instance of ConvertXtoDVD and started converting A nightmare on elmstreet to DVD and it will take 16 min to finish a 90 min movie. Task manager reflected almost no increase in ram usage and a 8% increase in CPU usage.

Why doesn't it use more?

#118 Post by **palmboy5** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 11:23 pm

They are 1x WD Green 2TB EADS and 3x WD Green 2TB EARS, with a WD "AV" 80GB IDE (the ones designed for 24/7 high heat usage) from the TiVo as an OS drive. I'll delve into it in the other thread once I finalize this thing.

See if your SATA controller supports port replication, and then buy a replicator. Or just get an SATA card!

Yeah I got four Scythes recently to replace tricools which are so noisy.

Use another program lol

EDIT:
I updated 6tb.png with a new screenshot that shows it along with my current server. It should be able to tell you why I wanted to make this new server.

#119 Post by **palmboy5** » Mon Aug 02, 2010 4:51 pm

Apparently I never uploaded this picture I took of my desktop back in December

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http://www.mylilsite.net/images/kentsfi ... mbled1.jpg

2005 · #120 Post by **2005** » Thu Aug 12, 2010 6:02 pm

The highest I've seen in starcraft 2 at 1080p with everything maxed is about 80 FPS with a about 300 units on screen.

Didn't check the core i7's usage as I was in the middle of a big fight and didn't have time to check ^_^

What benchmarking software should I run? I was thinking of doing super pi and perhaps a 3Dmark06

I know most steam games like Counter Strike Source and Team Fortress 2 hit 300 FPS with everything maxed at 1080p.