Recent content by Frugal1ty

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    Registry Cleaners

    i was doing some maintenance on my dad's computer and saw three virus protection, programs, six anti-spyware malware trojan programs, two person firewalls (not including windows), and a few registry cleaners. for all that infectious related stuff i have programs that i'm familiar with...
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    suggestions on an HD TV tuner

    what works well for you?
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    Hard Drive Benchmarks - What's Hot & What's Not...Poll Added

    Rhoxed those numbers look good, specially for a 2 drive RAID0. but lookin at that burst rate. . . is it normal to have burst rate lower than the average in RAID0?
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    RAID results

    hm, i don't see any options for setting the stripe size
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    RAID results

    it's the nVIDIA controller on a foxconn C51. whatever that is. (nVIDIA 590 MPC chipset)
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    Hard Drive Benchmarks - What's Hot & What's Not...Poll Added

    also, here's an old seagate (as in three years old) 80GB drive that i was going to make a RAID array out of. actually i was going to make an array out of three of them, but they are pathetic in RAID so i scrapped that project instead to go with two 160 western digitals in RAID0. . . same...
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    Hard Drive Benchmarks - What's Hot & What's Not...Poll Added

    that's actually faster than the 4200 RPM hitachi laptop drive in my IBM T40.
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    RAID results

    welp i finished settin up the RAID and got some graphs from HDTUNE. i went ahead and set up a few different kinds of arrays. the benchmarks off the individual seagate ST380817AS are 28.5 MB/s min 57.1 MB/s max 46.1 MB/s average 12.9 ms access pretty slow, my 80GB IDE western digital...
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    Hard Drive Benchmarks - What's Hot & What's Not...Poll Added

    still though, i feel like $4,400 for ~120GB is not quite 'real world'
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    do SPP and MCP (northbridge and southbridge) multipliers have an effect on overclocking?

    by 'left at the same multiplier you mean: matching the HT multiplier, or left at the default of 5x?
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    do SPP and MCP (northbridge and southbridge) multipliers have an effect on overclocking?

    in my BIOS (foxconn C51) there are multipliers listed as follows nForce SPP --> nForce MCP nForce SPP <-- nForce MCP i lowered them from 5x to 4x and seemed to gain some stability at HTT above 300. does that make sense? also, are these multipliers similar to HT multiplier where...
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    RAID results

    thanks to those who have replied. i think i'm gonna go on ahead and try to put up the RAID array. because. . . 1. i have the drives right now. it's not like i'm goin out lookin for old SATA drives to put up in RAID0. I actually pulled these drives out of the trash at my university...
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    RAID results

    dang! such contempt for my RAID idea. lol
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    RAID results

    now i have three 80GB 7200 RPM SATA drives and i was thinkin about puttin em up in RAID0. do you think it would be worth the effort of the OS re-install, config the whole thing, etc, etc for the performance increase? EDIT: spent a day recently putting these drives in various RAID arrays and...