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    Best Drive Setup For New Build

    I've heard of this but I thought since the RAID 1 partitions are on the same 2 drives as the RAID 0 partitions that you loose the performance gain that you normally get with RAID 0 because RAID 1 slows things down. Any truth to that? Also I know you can make a drive image to a external drive...
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    *Official* ASUS P5Q Deluxe Intel P45 Board Thread

    The couple of reviews I've read regarding the P5Q Deluxe said something about one of the two ethernet ports on the rear panel being slower than the other. Does anyone know which is the better performer of the two ethernet/lan ports to use?
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    ***New RAM***

    No worries ...on the Mushkin forums, Mushkin is based in the good ol' USA by the way in Colorado, there is a forum admin named Greg. He is very good about answering any questions you have including over clocking. He seems very, very knowledgeable. I'm still waiting for my memory to be...
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    ***New RAM***

    I have heard a lot of good things about the G.Skill DDR2 1000 and their DDR2 1066. I ended up going for these Mushkin's for my new build (P5Q Deluxe, E8500) and it was shipped out today. It has some new type of heatsinks that allow for some good/stable oc'ing for instance running 1150Mhz 2.0v...
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    Best Drive Setup For New Build

    Oh...duh. Sorry about that. Everything has been delivered except for the 2 640GB's & memory which shipped out today from the egg and the psu is on the Fedex truck as we speak for delivery today. Got the psu from zipzoomfly since it saved me $12 for the blue version. Bought the case (Antec Nine...
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    Best Drive Setup For New Build

    The two 640GB have been purchased. What would have been your idea? Video card is one that I got a couple months back before the 4850 & 4870 came out...it's a XFX 8800GTS G92 512mb Alpha Dog
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    Best Drive Setup For New Build

    Yes...the 160GB HD is an existing drive that is not being used. SATA 16mb cache. I thought of throwing it in there for backups or something. I do like the idea of using the two 640GB drives as separate drives. What about partitions? Should I create a smaller partition for os/programs for...
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    Best Drive Setup For New Build

    System will be used mainly for gaming. Not sure if I want to do RAID 0, is there a substantial performance increase with it? P5Q Deluxe E8500 Thermalright Ultima-90 Mushkin DDR2 1066 PC P&C Silencer 750w 2x WD6400AAKS 640GB SATA HDD's 1X WD1600YS 160GB SATA HDD 1) What would be some...
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    Can't decide on a Gigabyte board

    I just recently picked up the ASUS P5Q Deluxe and it's a fantastic board. I had a real tough time deciding between it and the Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS4P. I think you would be safe with either. I have been reading some very good things about the MSI P45 Platinum as well. Here is a run down on the...
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    *Official* ASUS P5Q Deluxe Intel P45 Board Thread

    Hello all. Just purchased my P5Q Deluxe today and really have everything I need except for memory. CPU is the E8500 and I will be oc'ing it to around 4.0GHz, which I hear is very easy to achieve. Anyhow can someone recommend some RAM given my oc'ing goals? I would maybe like to go for 4GB (2x...