Recent content by bm5

any word on cards with 3rd party cooling?

don't wanna blow away my vista install, so here are some write benchmarks from atto. tweaking I did was to dramatically change the stripe size (from default 128K down to 8K) and enable the volume write cache in the intel storage manager.

ok did a little tweaking -- this is looking better. not sure why my CPU usage is so high though. This is with volume write-back cache enabled in the intel storage manager.

good excuse to go upgrade! :D

i haven't done any tuning or config changes yet, that was a quick and dirty bench. This is on a ICH9R -- unfortunately I don't have a high-end raid card to test with. will try to do more comprehensive testing this evening.

or 2 X Intel X25-E's I should say... just got these in -- will start testing on them. here's a preliminary (untweaked) result... :D

I know these get posted all the time, but I just wanted to post my outstanding experience with EVGA customer service. I recently had two interactions with EVGA, both of which went above and beyond my expectations for great customer service. Interaction #1: Bought a 9800GTX awhile back...

:D:D:D:D:D Awesome! thank you very much!

if anyone has invites left, I'd really appreciate it. I'll share any new invites back to this community. videyvide (at) yahoo (dot) com Thanks very much!

thanks everyone, all of the responses were very helpfull. I think I'll wait for the new cards to come out to put into my main system, and then move the current 8800GTS I have into the mATX system -- now that I know I have enough power :) Thanks again, cheers!

Hi There. Please help a n00b figure out this power stuff. I'm building a new system for lan gaming. So it's a mATX system -- case comes with a 350W PS (antec NSK-1380). the powersupply is 80+ rated. It's a non-standard shape, so no replacing the powersupply. I'm worried about power since...

Hi -- putting together a new system with the following specs: E8400 Asus P5E-VM HDMI Corsair Dominator 4GB DDR2-800 To start have it overclocked to 3.6. Doing orthos stress testing and noticed something really weird (or at least I haven't seen before): Cpu 1 is running twice as fast...

Hi there. Just installed a new BFG 8800GTS 512MB, but i noticed that the temps seem kind of high. Does 75C at idle seem too high? Is the ntune temp reliable? thanks!

how do you take pictures of the screen? that pic is awesome. everytime I try I end up getting scan lines... please share :-)

I'm using the plasma/lcd wall mount from monoprice which cost a whopping.....$25 :D I couldn't believe the price, but I have to say it works great. I have no worries about it being able to support the GP1U. the design is a basically a clone of the peerless mount that I used to mount a plasma...