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by BrianLR
Mon May 02, 2011 7:12 pm
Forum: Motherboards, Chipsets, & RAM
Topic: ASUS P8P67 PRO adding RAID gives BSOD
Replies: 4
Views: 4586

Re: ASUS P8P67 PRO adding RAID gives BSOD

.... the suggestion I got from the ASUS tech support was as follows " In this situation,I still suggest you RMA the board,then onboard RAID controller is unfunctional." So I installed a fresh copy of Windows including the Intel RST driver during the process and all is fine. I think ASUS t...
by BrianLR
Fri Apr 29, 2011 1:12 pm
Forum: Motherboards, Chipsets, & RAM
Topic: ASUS P8P67 PRO adding RAID gives BSOD
Replies: 4
Views: 4586

Re: ASUS P8P67 PRO adding RAID gives BSOD

Thanks for the above sensible suggestions. I have read elsewhere about the Marvel option. However I am thinking of creating a boot RAID 0 now as I have just received a second Kingston 64GB SSD. So first I will try another option that I have gleaned from several posts elsewhere, which is to start in ...
by BrianLR
Thu Apr 28, 2011 8:25 pm
Forum: Motherboards, Chipsets, & RAM
Topic: ASUS P8P67 PRO adding RAID gives BSOD
Replies: 4
Views: 4586

ASUS P8P67 PRO adding RAID gives BSOD

I am trying to add 2 x 450 GB WDC Velociraptor drives as a RAID 0 on the Intel 6GB/s Ports 0 and 1 Windows 7 Pro 64bit is on a Kingston 64GB SDD on SATA 3gbs port 4 Kingston 30GB SSD on SATA 3gbs port 5 Marvel SATA ports disabled I have added the Intel RST drivers to Windows. I can set RAID mode in ...
by BrianLR
Wed Apr 06, 2011 2:12 pm
Forum: Storage
Topic: SSDs, RAID 0 and Performance
Replies: 5
Views: 1454

Re: SSDs, RAID 0 and Performance

Windows 7 supports TRIM, and I think that at the time of that article's writing, OSX did not, and that's why you saw those poor results on used-state drivers. You can see the relative impact of "clean/dirty" on linear reads/writes in this TR review . Bottom-line: pick a TRIM-enabled SSD, ...
by BrianLR
Wed Apr 06, 2011 1:59 pm
Forum: Storage
Topic: SSDs, RAID 0 and Performance
Replies: 5
Views: 1454

Re: SSDs, RAID 0 and Performance

does your motherboard have SATAIII? just get one of the newer drives you definitely need an SSD if you don't have one but no reason to run raid for photoshop. how much memory is your computer running? Yes I am building a system based on the P67 with 16 GB RAM using an Asus board with 4 SATA II and ...
by BrianLR
Wed Apr 06, 2011 1:35 pm
Forum: Storage
Topic: SSDs, RAID 0 and Performance
Replies: 5
Views: 1454

SSDs, RAID 0 and Performance

I have read lots of posts about the use of SSDs, but I am still trying to determine what would be the best way to build the HDD/SDD resources to support Gigapixel image production with APG and CS5 Photoshop/Premiere Pro. I have seen questions raised about putting such intensive random access read/wr...
by BrianLR
Tue Apr 05, 2011 9:59 pm
Forum: Motherboards, Chipsets, & RAM
Topic: When will 8Gb modules be availble for P67/H67 Boards
Replies: 20
Views: 5395

Re: When will 8Gb modules be availble for P67/H67 Boards

I have receieved an answer to my original question When will 8Gb modules be availble for P67/H67 Boards ? A Kingston rep says that the 8GB unbuffered modules won’t be out until Q3/Q4 this year, and when they do appear they will be very expensive!
by BrianLR
Sun Apr 03, 2011 8:43 am
Forum: Motherboards, Chipsets, & RAM
Topic: When will 8Gb modules be availble for P67/H67 Boards
Replies: 20
Views: 5395

Re: When will 8Gb modules be availble for P67/H67 Boards

If you're looking at supporting insane amounts of RAM without selling your firstborn, have you considered an AMD Opteron based solution? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182240 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819105266 8 DIMM sockets, so you can get to ...
by BrianLR
Sat Apr 02, 2011 7:08 am
Forum: Motherboards, Chipsets, & RAM
Topic: When will 8Gb modules be availble for P67/H67 Boards
Replies: 20
Views: 5395

Re: When will 8Gb modules be availble for P67/H67 Boards

StuG wrote:
Will you really need the GTX460 for anything? Seems like more to the budget than it would need to be.


Absolutely, AutoPano Giga and Premiere Pro CS5 both use GPU acceleration, I might even go to a 560Ti card !
by BrianLR
Fri Apr 01, 2011 11:06 pm
Forum: Motherboards, Chipsets, & RAM
Topic: When will 8Gb modules be availble for P67/H67 Boards
Replies: 20
Views: 5395

Re: When will 8Gb modules be availble for P67/H67 Boards

If you're looking at supporting insane amounts of RAM without selling your firstborn, have you considered an AMD Opteron based solution? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182240 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819105266 8 DIMM sockets, so you can get to ...
by BrianLR
Fri Apr 01, 2011 7:27 pm
Forum: Motherboards, Chipsets, & RAM
Topic: When will 8Gb modules be availble for P67/H67 Boards
Replies: 20
Views: 5395

Re: When will 8Gb modules be availble for P67/H67 Boards

The system I am planning to build is for processing and editing multi-Gigapixel images using such applications as AutoPano Giga and Photoshop CS5, so the more RAM the better. While a system based on dual Zeon processors would be nice, the cost would be in the region of $5000 at least, so my intentio...
by BrianLR
Fri Apr 01, 2011 3:54 pm
Forum: Motherboards, Chipsets, & RAM
Topic: When will 8Gb modules be availble for P67/H67 Boards
Replies: 20
Views: 5395

When will 8Gb modules be availble for P67/H67 Boards

I want to put together a new system based on a Sandy Bridge 2600K CPU with the maximum possible memory of 32 Gb. The P67 MoB is specified to take 4 x 8GB non ECC RAM, but such 8GB RAM modules do not appear to be available yet, can anyone tell me what is the projected date for these to be on the mark...
by BrianLR
Thu Jan 27, 2011 7:38 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Enter our MSI GeForce GTX 560 Ti giveaway here
Replies: 1004
Views: 71969

Re: Enter our MSI GeForce GTX 560 Ti giveaway here

Yes, count me in. If I win this I guess I will have to get that new Sandy Bridge system!
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