First impression with KT7-Raid DTLA TB-800 and Win2K some lights many shadows

[Hardware]

First of all I had following stuff to try out:

2X TB-800 (green)
ALPHA 6035 cooler
Abit KT7-Raid MB
4X DTLA IBM 30G 7,2 (fastest ide drive)
Maxtor 60G IDE (just for space)

First of all avoid the tb for oc it seems they are stuck at 900 get a duron 600 instead
(maybe blue tb is better)
The Abit sucks badly in oc because the voltage is limited to 1,85V thats only 0,1 more then my stock 800 get a jumper mb with voltage to 2,05V

when you are using win2k forget raid now (win2k dont support ata100) there is a bugfix (aka ata100 driver) from the support hotline but I won pay $200 for this drivers

with the maxtor on the hpt100 (ata 100) win2k wont boot

my max60g on the single ide (via) was only pio
same for a test ibm djna 22g 7,2 it was only on pio too

 

[Argo]

Well, I have exactly the same hardware, except for 60Gb maxtor. First of all, raid worked perfectly fine. You have to press F6 during the setup and install highpoint drivers, and then you're set. Secondly, my t-bird 800 defaults at 1.7V. I'm running it at 900MHz without any voltage adjustment. It's stable at 950Mhz and 1.825V, however, extra 50MHz aren't worth upping the voltage by 0.125V.
I still had to go back to millenium though, since Q3 will lock up badly, and the system wasn't that stable anyways. Plus my Windows CE software didn't work. I guess I'll wait till DX8 comes out, and then give it another try.

 

[Hardware]

Yes Raid is working fine but its only slow ata66!
light oc from 800 to 900 is a waste of abits softmenuiii

 

[Argo]

Well, what did you expect, it's a known factor that most Athlon/Duron cores max out at around 950MHz. Copper cores can go a bit higher, however, I don't think you can get a copper slower than 850MHz.
As for ATA66, I think it's only between the controller and the hard drive. Controller uses it's own channel transfering data to the memory. I'm not sure about this though, perhaps someone else can back me up. If I'm right however, this means each harddrive has 66MB/s bandwidth with the controller, while the controller can burst the data to the memory at much higher speeds.

 

[Hardware]

dl hdtach 2.61 and bench yourself!

 

[Argo]

I don't have registered version of HD tach. Plus, I uninstalled win2k already. I do believe you though, I was just "thinking out loud"