I've been running two 250gb Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 drives in RAID 0 through a Rocket Raid 1720 PCI card.
I just noticed that there is a tiny jumper on each drive connecting an area labelled 'limit to 1.5gb/s operation'
naturally i took them off expecting a double speed increase (daft)...
kinda as the title and summary suggests. I've just installed a fresh copy of xp after doing an upgrade. I downloaded speedfan to see what the temperature reading were on idle
my E7200 cores are at 39/41c
now, i applied thermal paste to the cpu (like arctic silver 5 but a diff brand name)...
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