Recent content by TroutFish

Hi, A quick search of prior posts didn't turn up anything on this problem. I have a GA-8IHXP motherboard running an ATI 9700 Pro. Does great at gming. However, sometimes when booting up or coming out of STR sleep mode, the display reverts to 640x480, and WinXP pro says I need to reboot. AFter...

Does anyone know the pinout of the audigy2's internal firewire 10 pin connector? Would like to connect to the front panel of my Antec case. I've seen the pinout for the Audigy, but don't know if they are the same. TIA, TF

I've got a new GA-8IHXP motherboard running RAID 1 (mirrored), with an ATI RADEON 9700 (non-pro) video card. When I power the system down for some time (> 5 minutes) and power up again, I get a POST boot error (2 beeps followed shortly by 8 quick beeps). If I do ctrl-alt-del it reboots and comes...

Thanks for the tip, much appreciated... I found a reasonable price on 256 MB sticks of PC1066 RDRAM at knowledgemicro. It was less than high performance ECC DDR at Mushkin, so I figured it was an OK way to go. Glad to hear you liked the board, though. Did you run RAID 0 or 1 by any chance? TF

I decided I couldn't wait any longer, too. Just ordered the GA-8IHXP (i850e-based) motherboard.... TF

Thanks Chorucal, that's the first "real-world" comparison I've seen of CAS latency effects. I appreciate the response. TF

JC- thanks for the feedback, much appreciated! TF

Thanks for the link, LizardMan, That's what I was looking for. Interesting, supposedly ATI was only going to build Pro versions, and leave it to their partners to build non-pro. TF

This is interesting info, thanks. I've been looking for non-pro Sapphire 9700's, but haven't found any on Pricewatch. Anyone have a source for these? I'm interested in these because supposedly they run more quietly than other 9700's. Thanks, TF

c5dave, I'm looking at a similar GA8-IHXP system. If you buy a 533 FSB motherboard, make sure you buy PC1066 RAM. knowledgemicro.com seems to have pretty good prices on that type of RAM. make sure you use the 184 pin version. TF

Hi mechBgon, I hear what you are saying about CAS latency. Has anyone ever tested memory transaction performance with the same memory set to different CAS latencies to see if CL really makes a difference? The site below at Mushkin seems to indicate that CL is not important for DDR type RAM. But...

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Hi bhess, which Zalman did you use? TF

I'm betting you did it right, and that it's a teething issue with an early release of the board.... JMHO, though. Thanks for the response.

Has anyone had experience with the RAID functionality on a GA-8IHXP? I'm about to order this MB, but saw Elvis2's experience with "hesitation" when booting with RAID on Gigabyte's latest GA-8INXP. I downloaded the user's manual from the web, and noted that there was absolutely no mention of RAID...