Hmmm just a thought but would it be easy to take and old dell tower with 256mb of ram and im talking 2000 year build and refurbish it rather cheaply installing all new parts. Or should i just buy new parts and a new tower which would be cheaper.
Hmmm just a thought but would it be easy to take and old dell tower with 256mb of ram and im talking 2000 year build and refurbish it rather cheaply installing all new parts. Or should i just buy new parts and a new tower which would be cheaper.
They say spiders have 8 legs well i guess im a rare and unimaginable specimen. Ive got 9 legs and my web comes from that 9th leg. HaHa.
Makes sense now, cool. I thought I was only going to get 300gb when I built my new system.
How are you going to setup what toons run on what HDDs?
Before I had my main running off of a 7200rpm HDD, and my slaves running off a 10k Raptor ( of which they were symlinked to one another )
So are you just going to use the Raid 0 Velociraptors to run all of your team from?
Yeah thats what I was talking about.. You can do a raid0 and a raid1 or whatever. With that controller any new drives have to be in a raid. I had to rma my 1.5t drive cause I didnt know thats how the mb worked. If I add more storage I will make a new raid. Right now I have 1.5t raid0 on it. At this point I may just backup my important files to my usb 500g drive. Once you get that baby going let me know your bios settings for ram and cpu. I have the same ram but my cpu is the 920. I love corsair ram.Originally Posted by '-silencer-',index.php?page=Thread&postID=167997#post167997
This isn't the way the ICH10R works with the Asus R2E.. I just tested it. Like all motherboards I've worked with, you have to change the IDE mode to RAID in the BIOS if you plan on using any RAID arrays from the on-board chipset, but that doesn't prevent you from creating two separate arrays of different type. I just configured my Velociraptors in a 600GB RAID 0 array, and I made a RAID 1 array from the 1TB Samsungs. You *can* do both. Or I could have created a 2TB RAID 0 array from them.. that's one huge logical drive. My main problem right now is the limited number of SATA ports. I'm going to just keep the one array of Velociraptors since I've also got 2 SATA optical drives (Blu-Ray burner & standard DVD burner), plus an SSD. For now, I'm going to leave off one of the optical drives until I get my media backed up, then one of the Samsung drives is heading to my media server.. so all 6 ports of my motherboard will be in use: 2x 300GB Velociraptors, 1TB Samsung, 64GB SSD, a Blu-Ray burner, and a DVD burner. I may end up purchasing that 3ware 8-port SATA RAID controller card sooner than I thought, especially since I've discovered the setting in the Asus R2E BIOS to manually configure the 2nd and 3rd PCI-x16 slots as either x16/x16/x1 or x16/x8/x8. Since the RAID controller is an x8 card, I don't want an x16 videocard dropping my hard drives down to x1 automatically. In case I can't make it clear enough.. I absolutely LOVE this motherboard. 12GB of memory at 1600MHz 8-8-8-24 is working smooth, settings that aren't defined as being possible in the manual. And I haven't even started overclocking. I'm holding off on that until the rest of my watercooling gear arrives.
From what I've been reading about various X58 boards and 12GB of memory compatibility, I'm extremely happy with Asus/Corsair for giving me no problems here.
“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
― Epicurus
That's not true. If it were, I wouldn't be able to hook my Blu-ray & SSD drives to it. Just because you set from IDE to RAID in the BIOS doesn't mean you can't just hook up a single drive outside the RAID array to it. I currently have the 2x Raptors in RAID 0, and 2x separate 1TB drives, a SSD, and the Blu-Ray burner.. all being controlled by the mobo's ICH10R raid controller. You didn't have to RMA your 1.5TB drive unless the drive itself was bad. You do have to format it to be able to see it though.
Ex-WoW 5-boxer.
Currently playing:
Akama [Empire of Orlando]
Zandantilus - 85 Shaman, Teebow - 85 Paladin, Kodex - 85 Rogue.
Definitely going to 4-box Diablo 3 after testing the beta for how well this would work.
Well mark one loss from Asus Tech Support. I asked them about it and they told me there was no way it would see it. I didnt format it so when you plug it into one of the sata ports it would show as a failed raid between one of my raid drives and the 1.5t non raid drive. That really pisses me off about that because I spend a day trying to reach tech support.That's not true. If it were, I wouldn't be able to hook my Blu-ray & SSD drives to it. Just because you set from IDE to RAID in the BIOS doesn't mean you can't just hook up a single drive outside the RAID array to it. I currently have the 2x Raptors in RAID 0, and 2x separate 1TB drives, a SSD, and the Blu-Ray burner.. all being controlled by the mobo's ICH10R raid controller. You didn't have to RMA your 1.5TB drive unless the drive itself was bad. You do have to format it to be able to see it though.
“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
― Epicurus
Strange.. the controller has serial-number based RAID addressing, meaning just by plugging in the drives after you select RAID in the BIOS won't do anything to RAID them. They only show up as a RAID drive if you enter the RAID setup (control+i during boot), and then you can assign various drives into RAID arrays or leave them as single standalone drives..Well mark one loss from Asus Tech Support. I asked them about it and they told me there was no way it would see it. I didnt format it so when you plug it into one of the sata ports it would show as a failed raid between one of my raid drives and the 1.5t non raid drive. That really pisses me off about that because I spend a day trying to reach tech support.That's not true. If it were, I wouldn't be able to hook my Blu-ray & SSD drives to it. Just because you set from IDE to RAID in the BIOS doesn't mean you can't just hook up a single drive outside the RAID array to it. I currently have the 2x Raptors in RAID 0, and 2x separate 1TB drives, a SSD, and the Blu-Ray burner.. all being controlled by the mobo's ICH10R raid controller. You didn't have to RMA your 1.5TB drive unless the drive itself was bad. You do have to format it to be able to see it though.
Ex-WoW 5-boxer.
Currently playing:
Akama [Empire of Orlando]
Zandantilus - 85 Shaman, Teebow - 85 Paladin, Kodex - 85 Rogue.
Definitely going to 4-box Diablo 3 after testing the beta for how well this would work.
More loot showed up:
Swiftech Apogee GTZ waterblock with Core i7 1366 mounting bracket
Laing DDC-3.2 (Swiftech MCP-355) water pump
2x Vantec 120mm fan vibration dampening kits (4x 120mm fan dampeners for the non-radiator fans)
Petra Tech Gel pad for the pump to dampen vibration
Teflon tape for installing tubing compression fittings
2x dual UV cathodes (4 total cathodes.. I'm not really into lighting, but I figure there may be times I want to see in there..)
2x Vantec 120mm fan vibration dampening kits (4x 120mm fan dampeners for the non-radiator fans):
..and a different motherboard tray with better cooling.. the previous one is from a Lian Li PC-6x case with 80mm rear fan, and this new one is from a Lian Li PC-A10 case with a 120mm fan:
Ex-WoW 5-boxer.
Currently playing:
Akama [Empire of Orlando]
Zandantilus - 85 Shaman, Teebow - 85 Paladin, Kodex - 85 Rogue.
Definitely going to 4-box Diablo 3 after testing the beta for how well this would work.
Are those tubes ( UV Cathodes ) the same ones that are in this case?More loot showed up:
Swiftech Apogee GTZ waterblock with Core i7 1366 mounting bracket
Laing DDC-3.2 (Swiftech MCP-355) water pump
2x Vantec 120mm fan vibration dampening kits (4x 120mm fan dampeners for the non-radiator fans)
Petra Tech Gel pad for the pump to dampen vibration
Teflon tape for installing tubing compression fittings
2x dual UV cathodes (4 total cathodes.. I'm not really into lighting, but I figure there may be times I want to see in there..)
2x Vantec 120mm fan vibration dampening kits (4x 120mm fan dampeners for the non-radiator fans):
..and a different motherboard tray with better cooling.. the previous one is from a Lian Li PC-6x case with 80mm rear fan, and this new one is from a Lian Li PC-A10 case with a 120mm fan:
Those look like blue cathodes, not UV. But yeah, same type of cold cathode housing. The UV are more purple - like black lights.
Here's what they look like when the room's lights are on:
Here's what they look like in the dark (although the camera doesn't accurately portray the actual look.. they're actually darker lights, but they light up that UV coolant bottle MUCH more..):
Edit:
Now all I'm waiting on is the tubing & compression fittings for the tubing, plus the key switch.. which I doubt will show up this week.... plenty of time to test the water system *if* the tubing and fittings arrive Tuesday. I'm satisfied with the stress test of the CPU/mobo/ram/hard drives so far.. churning away for over 48 hours now with 8x Orthos Prime95 & 3dMark running up front. Once the water system is leak-tested, it looks like I'll be ready to go.. detailed case planning & diagrams begin tomorrow.
Ex-WoW 5-boxer.
Currently playing:
Akama [Empire of Orlando]
Zandantilus - 85 Shaman, Teebow - 85 Paladin, Kodex - 85 Rogue.
Definitely going to 4-box Diablo 3 after testing the beta for how well this would work.
Testing out all the fans and the Scythe Kaze Master. This thing is slick - rpm readouts in 30rpm increments, temperature sensors accurate to .1*F (can switch between *C and *F), and supports up to 12W (1A at 12 volts) per channel:
I'll run all 8 fans off this thing while monitoring 4 device rpms (like the water pump!) and 4 temperatures (ambient external, ambient internal, water, cpu waterblock). Nearby are two 4" blue cathodes I've had and wanted to test out.. not sure if I'll use them or not yet. You can see the power supply jumper at the end of the ATX cable.. so I can turn on the power supply without it being attached to a motherboard. Note: if you're going to do this, always make sure you have at least 1-2 other devices connected when you power it on - DON'T turn on a power supply with no load.. you could kill it.
All temp sensors and fans work.. I'm actually surprised at how good these fans are - they start operating with as low as around 4v, meaning I can start them up at only ~600rpm and they're silent at that speed. Even at ~1200rpm they're not going to be heard in the case.. perfect. Max rpm with no air restriction (not laying flat on the table) is around 2200rpm.. +/- 30 rpm. They're not quiet at this speed.. it remains to be seen how loud they'll be in the case at 2200rpm.. but that's fast enough to really cool a radiator.
Ex-WoW 5-boxer.
Currently playing:
Akama [Empire of Orlando]
Zandantilus - 85 Shaman, Teebow - 85 Paladin, Kodex - 85 Rogue.
Definitely going to 4-box Diablo 3 after testing the beta for how well this would work.
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