mooseAndSquirrel
Senior member
I have a high-end rig that I am most interested in stability. So I doubt I'll overclock, at least for a year. But I'm wondering what is the "best" BIOS settings for me - go aggressive but still be stable. My other interest is in quiet - I'll tolerate temperatures before I go back to the wind tunnel. So far so good at generally low 30s
What I have is:
Asus P4B533 Mobo
Intel P4 2.8
3x512MB DDR PC2700,CL=2.5,Unbuffered,Non-parity
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
and I boot of off a 15K, 36GB Cheetah off an Adaptec 29160 and run my data off of an iWill SIDE 100 RAID card, RAID0 with 2 WD1200JB 8MB. (like the commercial used to say, don't hate me because I'm beautiful 😉 ).
With everything set to default this system is (of course) rock steady. I put a pc power and cooling "silencer" fan on the Alpha HS and my machine is almost silent (the Cheetah is the noisiest thing in it). The silencer lives up to its name, but doesn't push much air. So what I'd like to do is tweak for the best balance of stability, performance and temps.
Any advice greatly appreciated.
What I have is:
Asus P4B533 Mobo
Intel P4 2.8
3x512MB DDR PC2700,CL=2.5,Unbuffered,Non-parity
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
and I boot of off a 15K, 36GB Cheetah off an Adaptec 29160 and run my data off of an iWill SIDE 100 RAID card, RAID0 with 2 WD1200JB 8MB. (like the commercial used to say, don't hate me because I'm beautiful 😉 ).
With everything set to default this system is (of course) rock steady. I put a pc power and cooling "silencer" fan on the Alpha HS and my machine is almost silent (the Cheetah is the noisiest thing in it). The silencer lives up to its name, but doesn't push much air. So what I'd like to do is tweak for the best balance of stability, performance and temps.
Any advice greatly appreciated.
