Recent content by willow2

No RAID. So the opticals should be on the secondary chips...be it JMicron or Marvell. I didn't realize that. Maybe I'll be ok with my current board, the Maximus III Formula. I just haven't seemed to read much good & alot of bad about JMicron's solutions. I thought I'd sell my board & choose...

I will be running 7+ SATA drives (2 of them optical), & am interested in the best HD performance. (For file transfers, multimedia and backups.) I'm wondering if the X58 chipset is better than P55 for this. Also, since I will have more than 6 drives, what's the best secondary chip, Marvell's...

I just put together a new build using a new Sapphire 5670, w/DVI, HDMI & Display Port. I've also installed the latest Catalyst Suite. Running just the DVI to my 22" monitor works fine. But when I also plug in the HDMI cable to send video to my plasma tv, it shrinks the image of my desktop on my...

I've been researching RAID 0 this morning, & everything I'm reading agrees. Guess I'll send the 2nd 500gb drive back & wait until larger SSD's for storage become more affordable.

Great feedback, thanks. So it sounds like I can rule out the video card. I do have a 60gb SSD boot drive, and it is incredibly fast. I really can't afford a large capacity SSD at this time. I just bought a 2nd Samsung F3 500gb drive. So I think I'll set up a RAID 0 array & see if that helps.

I have a secondary hard drive that contains thousands of digital photos. One thing I've never been clear on, is what hardware component(s), are responsible for the rendering and/or viewing process. Many of my photos are quite large & there is a lag when scrolling thru them. There's also quite a...

All 1st generation Gigabyte boards, GA-P55-***, use Foxconn. Their 2nd generation, GA-P55A-***, use Lotes.

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