NEUTRON System Upgrade

11-15-2006 NEUTRON System Upgrade

An upgrade to the Asus A8N-SLI Premium and BFG 7600 GT OC finally brought me out of the AGP dark ages. The ability to play a game at high resolution without having my machine lockup or reboot was a refreshing change. The main reason I bought this motherboard was for the RAID 5 support, but I soon discovered the parity striping makes the disk access dog slow. I then reloaded using the same SIL 3114 controller in RAID 0 before settling on the nVidia Controller in RAID 0 which blew away the SIL 3114 in the burst category. For anyone else who buys this board the RAID 5 option makes you feel nice and secure about your hard drives, but if you're impatient like me skip it and go directly to nVidia RAID 0. I also added another drive so now it's 3 time more likely my entire array will fail compared to a single drive. Surprisingly my old motherboard RAID beat my new one in average and random access.

RAID COMPARE	Old SIL3512 RAID 0	SIL3114 RAID 0	SIL3114 RAID 5	NVIDIA RAID 0
Burst	122.1 MB/s	121.4 MB/s	103.8 MB/s	226.7 MB/s
Average	113.9 MB/s	105.2 MB/s	61.4 MB/s	111.4 MB/s
Random	7.8ms	8.1ms	9.9ms	8.4ms
CPU	8%	2%	0%	4%

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User Comments for 11-15-2006:

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is that light gray bar your old AGP system? If so that's insane
Stavos

sweet now buy a 8800 Geforce with Direct X 10 like me :)
Stavos

Gosh I miss Myrone.
Tim

Brad, at least if you lose a drive now you won't be losing all of your data, unlike with that crazy striped drive theory you had. :P
E1

7169 3DMarks SM2.0 Score: 3295 HDR/SM3.0 Score: 2809 CPU Score: 2138 (performed at 1280x1024 w/ 8x AA and optimal filtering)
Duane

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