Recent content by Last Starfighter

reading the aritcle @ http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2101 it seems that the benefits of RAID0 are remarkably Negligible for a desktop. does the same apply if you use 4 drives - or does it not work that way?

My current rig is fairly pokey, FX 55 on ASUS SLi Deluxe mobo, 2GB RAM, twin 6800 GTs. However, I have a fairly average PATA Maxtor HDD, decent cache / runs at 7K etc. I'm looking to install a RAID0 array on the onboard SATA II controller. SATAII drives are now awailable from a couple...

bah, we'll have no sensible suggestions like that round here ;-)))))

I did try that..... Good luck with your card - I heard on another forum that there might be a later rev. of the GTo card that does work in SLi mode, but that was partial conjecture. BTW the cards are fine if you only want to use one on it's own - no problems there.

I'll have to pay the extra when they have them in stock - a bit annoying since I spent *so* much time doing the troubleshooting on this one (and spending 4 hours one morning proving to them in person they didnt work), but they tend to be cheap so I can pretty much forgive them. I tend to go...

That's what I thought - but I went down to the store and tried multiple replacements of cards, bridges etc. The only time it went away was with a different model of card (namely and XFX 6800GT, which is on the certified list)

I was using MSI 6800GTos, tried every bios that has been released so far including all the Betas and more nvidia drivers than I care to remember. I'm not sure I'd bother with the mobo BIOS - I've tried them inc 1003.005 - it works ok for me (occasional problem booting) but it had no effect on...

Hi, sounds like a problem I was looking at http://forums.anandtech.com/me...AR_FORUMVIEWTMP=Linear basicly turned out that my cards although capable of entering SLi mode - were not up to it somehow & thus not really SLi compatible :-/ might want to check this list...

I'm pretty sure those didnt help on my cards - what kind of problems were you seeing before these drivers?

Right, spent the morning down at my local retailer Scan We threw hardware, drivers and prayer at the machine for 3-4 hours and came to the following conclusions The cards I have (256Mb MSI PCI-E GF6800GTO DDR3 Dual DVI) are *not* SLi compatible, they have the bridge connectors, they will...

I've tried SLi mode with PEG disabled in the BIOS - didnt seem to affect it - but aye, I got all hopeful when I looked up what PEG was after seeing the option.

under 'SLi Multi GPu' you need to disable 'Show GPU load balancing' (Display Settings / Advanced / Geforce X Series GPU Tab - its half way down the list

happens in Far Cry, HL2, Eve - I can install more stuff I suppose!

The board looks ok on close inspection, but I'm far from an expert in such things. What you said did remind me of this article though: Driver Heaven GTo Review Particularly the bit about them being Ultras with duff pipelines.

I did wonder about that - alas it makes no difference