Hi everyone,
I am waiting on a EVGA SSC 8800GT to arrive on tuesday to finish my latest project. A brief rundown on specs goes as follows:
-Corsair HX520
-Antec P182
-Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 (REV 2.0)
-Intel E6750
-Crucial 2 x 1GB DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) CAS4 ( 4-4-4-12)
(Memory is the relabeled NewEgg LANFEST Crucial Ballistix Tracer Kit)
-4 WD 320YS drives (Raid Specific, 5yr Warrenty)
-ASUS|DRW-2014L1T LS SATA.
I will be running XP Pro installed on a ICH9R RAID 10 array. I just had a couple questions.
1. Being that this is my first SATA optical drive I was wondering if anyone had any idea what BIOS settings to set the Gigabyte SATA controller (2 port controller) to get the drive to work.
2. The ICH9R has 6 total slots. If I use 4 of them for my RAID 10 array, can I use the other 2 for ESATA? Do I need to do anything special during the array building setup to do this?
3. If I am running a single GPU, do people still recommend plugging in the PCI-E 12V power input on the motherboard? Gigabytes manual says it supplies the PCI-E with extra power, plug this in when running two graphics cards. Any advantage to having it connected with a single card? Any potential problem running it that way?
4. I have heard that when using a single graphics card one of the two PCI-E slots runs more stable. It was an unexplained phenomenon but it was confirmed by a couple different users. Does anybody know about this? Which slot the top or bottom slot should I install my card to?
Thank you in advance to anyone who takes the time to read this and help me out. Also I will post pictures and feed back once I get it all up and running. I am going to start off with stock cooling on everything, including using those Antec case fans. Once I see what works, and what needs improving, I will move to some better/quieter cooling solutions. Plus my wallet needs some idle time, its been running a little hot.
-Stobal
I am waiting on a EVGA SSC 8800GT to arrive on tuesday to finish my latest project. A brief rundown on specs goes as follows:
-Corsair HX520
-Antec P182
-Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 (REV 2.0)
-Intel E6750
-Crucial 2 x 1GB DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) CAS4 ( 4-4-4-12)
(Memory is the relabeled NewEgg LANFEST Crucial Ballistix Tracer Kit)
-4 WD 320YS drives (Raid Specific, 5yr Warrenty)
-ASUS|DRW-2014L1T LS SATA.
I will be running XP Pro installed on a ICH9R RAID 10 array. I just had a couple questions.
1. Being that this is my first SATA optical drive I was wondering if anyone had any idea what BIOS settings to set the Gigabyte SATA controller (2 port controller) to get the drive to work.
2. The ICH9R has 6 total slots. If I use 4 of them for my RAID 10 array, can I use the other 2 for ESATA? Do I need to do anything special during the array building setup to do this?
3. If I am running a single GPU, do people still recommend plugging in the PCI-E 12V power input on the motherboard? Gigabytes manual says it supplies the PCI-E with extra power, plug this in when running two graphics cards. Any advantage to having it connected with a single card? Any potential problem running it that way?
4. I have heard that when using a single graphics card one of the two PCI-E slots runs more stable. It was an unexplained phenomenon but it was confirmed by a couple different users. Does anybody know about this? Which slot the top or bottom slot should I install my card to?
Thank you in advance to anyone who takes the time to read this and help me out. Also I will post pictures and feed back once I get it all up and running. I am going to start off with stock cooling on everything, including using those Antec case fans. Once I see what works, and what needs improving, I will move to some better/quieter cooling solutions. Plus my wallet needs some idle time, its been running a little hot.
-Stobal
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