I love my A64 3200+!

[FreshPrince]

This system is very responsive...just like the way I like my womenz



CPU: A64 3200+
MOBO: MSI Neo+
RAM: Mushkin PC3200 Level one 2-3-2 1GB(2x512)
VIDEO: GeXCube 9600XT 128MB
HDD: Cheetah X15.3K, WD 120JB
SCSI: Adaptec 29160
OPTICAL: Toshiba 16X DVD
POWER: Antec 430W TRUE
CASE: Antec P-160WF

XP loaded up in no time, will burn in CPU tonight and run benches tomorrow.

Love my new system :beer:

don't think about it anymore, just get it!

 

[JBT]

Nice system you got there. GL

 

[mechBgon]

DUDE

 :light:
:Q

Do you have Adaptec SCSIBench (part of EZ SCSI) with your 29160?! I want you to benchmark something! :Q If you have it, do this one: screenshot I MUST KNOW!!! :Q

*grovels at feet of person who can answer question of whether the PCI bus performs well with SCSI cards*

 

[MichaelD]

Oooooooooh.

Can I touch it?

Very nice! You went the whole nine yards, man; snazzy new case and everything.

That mobo is a Via chipset mobo, right? Let us know how it does once you start hammering it with benchmarks, gaming and multitasking and such.

Congratulations on a very nice rig. I am jealous.

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: mechBgon
DUDE

 :light:
:Q

Do you have Adaptec SCSIBench with your 29160?! I want you to benchmark something! :Q If you have it, do this one: screenshot I MUST KNOW!!! :Q

*grovels at feet of person who can answer question of whether the PCI bus performs well with SCSI cards*

Hey bud.

I assume by "PCI bus" you mean the PCI bus on the A64 boards, right? :Q Do the current crop of A64 boards have Hypertransport, where the PCI bus runs right with the CPU? :Q

Crap...and i thought i was DONE spending money for awhile.

 

[FreshPrince]

Originally posted by: mechBgon
DUDE

 :light:
:Q

Do you have Adaptec SCSIBench (part of EZ SCSI) with your 29160?! I want you to benchmark something! :Q If you have it, do this one: screenshot I MUST KNOW!!! :Q

*grovels at feet of person who can answer question of whether the PCI bus performs well with SCSI cards*

I was gonna install it, but this page told me not to

page

 

[FreshPrince]

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Originally posted by: mechBgon
DUDE

 :light:
:Q

Do you have Adaptec SCSIBench with your 29160?! I want you to benchmark something! :Q If you have it, do this one: screenshot I MUST KNOW!!! :Q

*grovels at feet of person who can answer question of whether the PCI bus performs well with SCSI cards*

Hey bud.

I assume by "PCI bus" you mean the PCI bus on the A64 boards, right? :Q Do the current crop of A64 boards have Hypertransport, where the PCI bus runs right with the CPU? :Q

Crap...and i thought i was DONE spending money for awhile.

from what I've read in the manual, yes, HT is supported w00t!

oh, and SCSI performance is not lacking at all!

when I had the setup in an intel setup, it was definately much slower. That was why I created that thread "t or f, scsi is slower with small files." Because I always thought scsi was much faster with smaller files, but that was simply not the case in the intel setup. With this new system, everything runs snappy!

This is my 1st AMD system and I am overly impressed with their product. Now to get some sleep, working @ 7am tomorrow

-FP

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Originally posted by: mechBgon
DUDE

 :light:
:Q

Do you have Adaptec SCSIBench with your 29160?! I want you to benchmark something! :Q If you have it, do this one: screenshot I MUST KNOW!!! :Q

*grovels at feet of person who can answer question of whether the PCI bus performs well with SCSI cards*

Hey bud.

I assume by "PCI bus" you mean the PCI bus on the A64 boards, right? :Q Do the current crop of A64 boards have Hypertransport, where the PCI bus runs right with the CPU? :Q

Crap...and i thought i was DONE spending money for awhile.

I've been avoiding VIA chipsets due to the ridiculously-bad PCI performance of my old KT333-based board, but I would drop my grudge if they've got it fixed. If that pic were of my KT333 board, it would be hitting a max of 70MB/sec, and that would drop to 49MB/sec if the PCI-based USB 2.0 controller were enabled. :|

The PCI bus is just one of the things that branches off the southbridge. If I have my facts straight, the southbridge then has a fairly robust V-Link to the northbridge, and the northbridge has a Hypertransport link to the CPU and its on-core memory controller. So the southbridge and northbridge shouldn't be bottlenecked in their own right, but the question is whether VIA has fixed the PCI problem. By now, I'd sure hope they have. And FreshPrince has precisely the hardware to lay my grudge to rest (or not).

I've been teetering on the brink of ordering up some sort of K8T800-based board and a 3000+... listening to the little devil on my shoulder here. He says I can always upgrade to a Socket939 platform and then hand down the Socket754 goodies to my home system. He sure is a smooth talker... LOL

 

[Markfw]

mech, just ran HD tach. IDE burst 115, max 51.3, SATA burst 115, max 63. Both are Maxtor 7200 rpm 8 meg cache. IDE is 80 gig, SATA is 120 GIG.

Does this answer some of your questions ?

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: Markfw900
mech, just ran HD tach. IDE burst 115, max 51.3, SATA burst 115, max 63. Both are Maxtor 7200 rpm 8 meg cache. IDE is 80 gig, SATA is 120 GIG.

Does this answer some of your questions ?

I appreciate the effort, but it really doesn't exactly Your IDE isn't based on the PCI bus (it's native to the southbridge, so it rides the 533MB/sec V-Link instead), and depending which SATA controller your SATA drive is hooked up to, it might not be either... was that on the Promise SATA, or the native VIA SATA? The native VIA SATA is also running on the V-Link.

What SCSIBench is doing in that pic is to just blast the same big chunk of data at the PCI bus as fast as it can take it. Since there is no desktop-caliber chipset that has native U160 or U320 SCSI, PCI performance makes or breaks this for me. But I think I'm being too paranoid about it... surely by now they've got it fixed. Off to Newegg to peruse the mobo selection...

 

[microAmp]

Upgrade bug finally got to you mechBgon?

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: microAmp
Upgrade bug finally got to you mechBgon?

It's hard not to catch the disease when you work in the hospital... LOL

Hmm, I wonder if these are any good... "Asus K8V Deluxe?" Can't say as I like that whatever-it-is on the front of the box. A chromed saber-toothed dragon with blue eye shadow? Ri-iiiiiiiiiight. Maybe I can get it in, uh, plain brown wrapping or something...

 

[microAmp]

Originally posted by: mechBgon

Originally posted by: microAmp
Upgrade bug finally got to you mechBgon?

It's hard not to catch the disease when you work in the hospital... LOL

Hmm, I wonder if these are any good... "Asus K8V Deluxe?" Can't say as I like that whatever-it-is on the front of the box. A chromed saber-toothed dragon with blue eye shadow? Ri-iiiiiiiiiight. Maybe I can get it in, uh, plain brown wrapping or something...

You could always settle for that awesome

ECS 755-A motherboard ... you might even get lucky and get the one I sent back

 

[mechBgon]

Ewwww! We all like the sound of the 755 chipset, but ECS...

ECS: ~ Oh! Did we say "DDR400?" Hahahaha! No we didn't! See, just look at our website, it says DDR333 right there, and it's said that for at LEAST three or four days now. That's our story, and we're stickin' to it. Thanks for your money, by the way!

I guess Asus has a similar gaffe in their history, to be entirely fair. Some of you may remember the Asus site's promise of the A7S333's "extreme overclocking" capabilities, which were entirely a figment of the marketing guys' imaginations. *sigh...*

 

[FreshPrince]

Originally posted by: mechBgon
Ewwww! We all like the sound of the 755 chipset, but ECS...

ECS: ~ Oh! Did we say "DDR400?" Hahahaha! No we didn't! See, just look at our website, it says DDR333 right there, and it's said that for at LEAST three or four days now. That's our story, and we're stickin' to it. Thanks for your money, by the way!

I guess Asus has a similar gaffe in their history, to be entirely fair. Some of you may remember the Asus site's promise of the A7S333's "extreme overclocking" capabilities, which were entirely a figment of the marketing guys' imaginations. *sigh...*

ya, I saw that ecs and was like...where's the rest of the stuff?

I wanted the asus board, but it was sold out and I had an itch

 

[howdyduty]

I love it! I wanna one. Nice.