ASUS P9X79-e WS Mobo Raid experiences

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• RAM compatible with 3930K and ASUS P9X79 PRO + Info

  Hello friends of the computer all-well informed,

  I take the plunge and I am about to buy these pieces through newegg for ~ $2000 to complete my computer video editing Premiere Pro 6/AE for a DSLR film DIY. I wish all possible comment. What you like or what you hate? What should I change?

  A few questions:

  -Can someone check my RAM, motherboard and CPU compatibility?

  -Invest in a cooling fan?

  -Will be 750w be enough for power supply?

  -Should what RAM I go with, 1600 or 1866 with the 3930 k? Ripjaws a good choice?

  [MOTHERBOARD]

  ASUS P9X79 PRO LGA 2011 Intel X 79 SATA 6 Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel motherboard with USB BIOS

  [RAM]

  I can't decide between 1600 and 1866? One will be more compatible with my CPU?  Intel website lists the 3930 compatible with 1600 k only I think? Anyone know? G. Skill seems to be a good option for my setup (unless someone thinks otherwise please let me know).

  -G.SKILL Ripjaws Z series 32 (8 x 4 GB) 32 GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) desktop memory model F3-12800CL9Q2-32GBZL

  • Vs.

  -G.SKILL Ripjaws Z series 32 (8 x 4 GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3-14900) desktop memory model F3-14900CL9Q2-32GBZL

  [CPU]

  Intel Core i7-3930 K Sandy Bridge - E 3.2 GHz (3.8 GHz Turbo) LGA 2011 130W desktop processor with Six cores BX80619i73930K

  [GPU]

  EVGA SuperClocked 012-P3-1572 - AR GeForce GTX 570 (Fermi) 1280 MB 320 - bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x 16 HDCP Ready SLI

  [DISKS]

  What is the best configuration with these drives? I think SSD for programs, etc, but then what? I have two 1 TB RAID0?

  Plextor M3 series PX - 128M 3 2.5 " 128 GB SATA III internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

  (x 2) Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1 TB 7200 tr / MIN SATA 6.0 GB/s 3.5 "drive hard internal-Bare drive

  [POWER]

  I'm still trying to understand this one? Someone at - it recommendations? I have an old 750w PSU, which I think may work?

  [CARD READER/DVD]

  Rosewill RCR-IC002 74-in-1 USB 2.0 3.5 "w internal card reader / USB port / Extra silver plate front

  DVD - RW from old computer

  [FOLDER]

  I have an Antec cases from the old computer.

  
  Thanks for your help!

  The Samsungs are certainly compatible and may just need a few tweaks. The compatibility of G-Skill depends on completely the modules used in this batch and the motherboard compatibility updates and if the QVL has been modified due to changes in module. The Samsung will certainly by a stable system if game directly. G-skills I can't say with certainty because of the mark.

  Eric

  ADK

• Noob setting mobo RAID 0 - traps?

  Gentlemen.

  I read at least 500 threads on this forum, and thank you all for your hard work. I would like to ask another question, if you don't mind.

  I'll put up a RAID 0 - my first time creation motherboard RAID. I would like to avoid a calamity. I have built about 20 computers in my time, so I don't know the General layout. I read up on threads of the evil of hard drive. I think I have usable material, even if the drives WD 640 GB Caviar Black, I intend to use as the RAID drives could run against the WDTLER problem in time. I can live with the risk.

  1. I've seen, from time to time, mentions that a RAID must be put in place before installing the operating system. It is a question, I have to solve before going any further. My motherboard is an ECS A885GM-A2. You can see that I'm not a high-end user. Most of my material is 5 minutes or shorter clips of my students of mathematics, solving problems to a SmartBoard. Nothing too stressful. Also, I intend to transcode my intermediate AVCHD from Canon T2i of Cineform Neoscene clips to take some of the load on the processor AMD Phenom II 955 BE. Yes, yes - I should be on Intel, but that horse has already left the barn.

  2. my motherboard has only 5 SATA 6 ports. This means that I'll use them all:

  Samsung Spinpoint F3 for OS.

  b. (2) WD Caviar Black 640 GB RAID 0 pair

  c. more than 7200 RPM Hitachi 7K 1000 750Go for all Agency-wise sister

  d. the last DVD drive SATA port

  BUT * I have a Crucial M4 64 GB SSD in box with no real purpose. Should I replace it for drive Hitachi 3 year as files/zero page combo drive? I can just add it in - I have more SATA ports. Seems like a waste for one SSD, however.

  3 What happens stripe size should I settle? It seems that I have a choice of 64 KB or 128KB.

  4. any other really important problems when configuring a RAID 0 motherboard?

  I try to avoid spending 5 hours setting up Windows, CS5, etc to know I made a blunder from the outset.

  Thank you for all your help.

  About WD TLER, don't you worry about this at all for your situation; it applies to the parity RAID (not RAID 0) controllers only.

  Regarding 1) RAID 0 can certainly be implemented after the OS has been loaded. Setting up a RAID 0 pair after the operating system has already been loaded onto a single disc goes softer if the original boot drive is configured as ACHI as opposed to the IDE. If this is not done, Utility Intel can do the conversion later.

  Regarding 2) the Crucial probably would have been a good choice for your startup drive, the older Hitachi is better suited to your mixture as the SSD. The only possibility I can think of where it would be useful to add the SSD would be to switch the DVD player to a 5.25 "USB 2.0 enclosure (freeing a SATA port), adding the Crucial and reloading Adobe and possibly other programs on the SSD drive where"loading speed"would benefit your system

  Regarding 3) 64 KB

  With regard to 4); Maybe you are getting confused by the discussion about a RAID 0 configuration/programs/OS initialization, the addition of a RAID 0 'set' for an existing installation is really pretty standard, low risk stuff

  Finally, if you don't have a large USB key or another methold to save your image of the operating system and your data files, then that should be high on your list of 'next purchase. " And if this isn't in the budget, sell the DSS to help fund that!

  Good luck.

  Jim

• Problems installing Windows Vista on a p9x79 pro raid setup.

  I'm trying to load Vista in raid0 on 2 WD 1 TB SATA 6 gb hd black
  I have an asus p9x79 pro MB with the latest bios. 3.0.0.1184 OROM.
  Samsung sata dvd drive

  When Vista first starts loading he asks "a required cd/dvd drive device is missing. If you have a driver disk, cd, dvd or usb flash drive please insert it now.

  I used the flash drive I created with the asus dvd provided with Mo and he installed the 'Inter c600 series chipset sata raid controller' allowed the installation to continue.
  Then it asked for the product key, and then license, then type setup, where you want to install.

  At this stage there is no disk to install to so I click on "drivers" and select the c600 Intel a new, but still no disks.

  Here's the funny thing, when I try to load windows 7, it detects the disk in the screen "where you want to install" without having to load the c600 drivers again. He's right there. Win 7 loads fine if I skip the product key, but I know that won't last long.

  I need vista loading because my win 7 is an upgrade.
  I hope someone can help me with this.

  Thank you. Bob

  Hello

  I suggest you to ask your question on Microsoft Technet for assistance.

  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/en/category/windowsvistaitpro

• Adding a RAID card to help speed up the export (and another question reader) in first Pro CC

  First of all, I read the Page Tweakers export section because that is my main concern is. First my questions, then the background and my current and proposed configurations:

  Question 1: Adding a hardware RAID controller, for example an LSI MegaRAID will sufficiently remove the burden of parity management CPU on my RAID 5 software that the CPU will jump of joy and export faster?

  Question 2: If true for above, then compare thoughts on adding smaller SSD for either a RAID 0 or less two RAID 0 volume volume complete HDD RAID 5. In other words, I think the purchase of four Samsung 850 Pro 128 GB SSD to put in a four disk volume to handle everything (projects/media, media, previews, export cache), or split it into two volumes of two disks of each and divide the tasks, or keep the idea of volume four disc and previews and exports on my drive HARD RAID 5 array.

  The 850 are valued at SEQ write: 550 / 470 MB/s so I could get around 2000 / 1500 MB/s read/write to a disk four RAID 0 or 1/2 who, if I divided in two volumes to minimize the volume of read/write at the same time, if it really matters with these SSD?

  The Tweaker page made some comments. A split is carried out the tasks between different drives, rather than a large effective RAID can really slow things down. Because SSDS are much faster than a single HARD disk, I think its more accurate than so I'm leaning towards the configuration of four discs put OS & programs on the C drive, media & projects on media on SSD (2 disks RAID 0) Cache and D (HDD RAID 5), file exchange & Previews & export on 2nd SSD RAID 0 (or combine the two RAID 0 and their functions).

  Just trying to get a point of view here, since I have not bought anything yet. Any experience/stories, I would be grateful.

  My current setup of training:

  My D drive is a software RAID 5 consisting of four 1 TB Western Digital RE4 (RED) 7200 RPM hard drives with CrystalDiskMark SEQ read/write of 339 / 252 MB/s.

  The C drive is 500 GB SSD (Samsung 840 (not Pro) and fact 531 / 330 MB/s.) My OS, Program Files and Page file are on C and media data/files/projects, etc. that are all about the RAID drive.

  Problem:

  Current configuration allows for smooth installation, just export seems slow, usually taking between two and two and a half times the video length to export. Thus, a 10 minute video takes 20-30 minutes for export. 15 minute video can take 30-40 minutes to export. The first 10% of the export of re-encoding takes less than a minute (seems fast), but it becomes slower when the final 10 or 20 percent may hang for several minutes as my system is running out of steam. So, where's the waste?

  I activated the hardware acceleration (because the GPU hack my GPU is not listed) and it can break through to 25% use a few times and eat up to 600 MB of VRAM (I have 2 GB of VRAM), otherwise it is slowed down export set. The CPU can boost at 50%, but it seems either too busy.

  Our calendar is simple with two video and two audio streams (a little music and especially the voices), with simple transitions (jump cuts or cross dissolves). Sometimes, we fast correct color, so that could use the GPU? Also, given that we are filming in 1080 P 60 p and 1080 export 29.97 FPS, I think who is scaling and using the GPU. I know that without the GPU, it takes much longer. I excluded buy a faster GPU because it doesn't seem to be breaking a sweat. I just need to know if my system is a bottleneck at the level of the disk hard because I am using software RAID and my disks are slow and hardware RAID will considerably reduce the processor load so it can export more quickly.

  Our files are not huge in nature. Most of our clips are several MBs each. Total files in the project are between 5 GB and 10 GB for each video with Windows Media File export being 500 MB to 1.2 GB on average. Look using Panasonic Camcorders, so the original files are AVCHD, I think (.) MTS files?).

  Considerations:

  1. I think to buy (and future proofing) a LSI Logic MegaRAID 9361-8i is 12 Gb/s SAS and SATA (because some SSD current can exceed the standard 6 Gbps).

  2. I will not replace my current HDD RAID 5 as not in my budget to spend 6 or more large SSD. These discs are more important to me for temporary storage because I delete files saved once. I don't mind a few smaller SSD inexpensive if they can make a significant difference for editing and export.

  I can only guess my RAID HDD is slow but the CPU is burdened by parity. I guess running RAID 10 would not really help.

  My configuration:

  my configuration:

  CPU - CPU i7 - 3930K @4.5 GHz

  RAM - G.SKILL Ripjaws Z Series 32 GB (4 x 8 GB) DDR3 2133 @2000

  Motherboard - ASUS P9X79 WS LGA 2011

  GPU - Gigabyte GeForce GTX 660 OC 2 GB (performed the hack of compatibility list to activate hardware acceleration).

  Drive C - 500 GB Samsung SSD (programs and Windows 7 Pro 64-bit) 840.

  D drive - four 1 TB WD RE4 enterprise hard drives 7200 rpm in RAID 5 software

  Box - Cooler Master HAF X

  CPU fan - Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO with 120 mm fan

  Power - series Pro Corsair AX 850 watts 80 Plus Gold

  Optical drive - Pioneer BDR - 208DBK

  Thanks in advance,

  Eric

  OK, after overload of information on everything I tried (free), which might be my answer here. I went from codecs to export. When you use Windows Media File, Premiere Pro seems chugging along much slower than when you use the h.264 (not h.264 Blu - Ray). I don't know if it's because Microsoft has found a way to break it or what. But I'm the CPU usage of 70-85% on the 2 Pass of 2 as well as the use of the memory of 40% (or 12 GB). It exported in 14 minutes. Woo - hoo. I then did a similar test using Windows Media File. It took 31 minutes to export. The CPU has spent much of his time in the 30%, especially down in the 1930s mid-1940s with spike for memory usage was only 24% to 35% and 50%. Since then, I've read how h.264 codec is 'plu' for online files. It compresses better with less compression artifacts. He seems better, etc. Well, they both seemed on the same thing for me. I play both on my TV 70 "before I could comment further. In the future, I will consider a RAID controller and upgrade the HDDs to SSDS.

• Samsung 840 pro 256 GB or not so great raid of 4 disks tray?

  I'm debating a 'hand' project disc I thought 4 seagate 1 TB are on my motherboard in raid 5 (asus p9x79 pro).

  Now, I know this great as raid controller used his on the mobo - but what sort of speeds will I get if these 4 disks in raid 5? It tempt me to just use a samsung 840 pro and save it instead, but this isn't my first choice.

  It also won't be a temporary solution anyway until I get enough money for a disc of 8 dedicated a whole raid controlled upward (which I assume is fast enough).

  PS also space is not a problem for me - I stay normally less than 100 GB per project.

  Thank you!

  A raid5 4 disc on the motherboard will be probably about 150-180% faster than a single disk and with drives of 1 TB Constellation ES, which translates into about 225-270 MB/s sustained transfer rates. Mind you, it is a guess, since I've never tried a parity raid mobo, but based on what I heard from users who used on-board raid. On a dedicated controller, you would see figures around 360 MB/s for the same configuration.

• What controller RAID choose?

  Hi forum. I'm waiting for my Asus P9X79 - E WS to arrive this week and I'm going to use RAID 0 with a separate daily backup drive for her. Until I can afford to high range as the Areca RAID controllers, etc, I'll have to use the on board controllers. It comes with the following options, which one to pick? I will be raiding two drives 7200 RPM Seagate 3 TB for editing. I have 3 SSD for the rest, like os/cache etc...

  Intel® X 79 chipset:

  2 x SATA 6 Gb/s ports, white

  4 x SATA/3 Gb/s port (s), blue

  Raid 0, 1, 5, 10 support

  Controller Marvell® PCIe 9230:

  4 x SATA 6 Gb/s ports, white

  Support Raid 0, 1, 10

  ASMedia® PCIe SATA controller:

  2 x eSATA 6 Gb/s ports, Red

  Port multiplier support

  
  

  Product page:

  Motherboards - P9X79-E WS

  Put all your discs on the ports to Intel:

  -ports, 6GB x = Boot SSD and the next high-performance SSD

  -port 3 GB x = 2 x 3 TB RAID 0 readers and the slower SSD

  Marvell Ports:

  -all optical discs

  eSATA ports:

  -eSATA disks / speakers you have or have planned; disable this option in the bios level if you will not use it at all

  Kind regards

  Jim

• Suggestions of Internal RAID card for config

  Hi people,

  First a brief summary of my hardware that may contribute to the discussion:

  MB: Asus P9X79-E WS

  CPU: Intel Core i7 Extreme 4930 K 3.4 GHz

  SDS OS: Samsung 840 series Pro 256 GB

  Various HD WD Black

  Case: Obsidian 900 d

  I would like to put in place a system of internal Raid that the case has a lot of Bay HD capabilities. MB Raid facilities on board are not too reliable, or so I read, so a PCIe card seems the best bet.

  Can someone please offer advice on what card PCIe is more suitable for this purpose. I would look at Raid 10 with 4 x Sata disks 4TB

  Kinder,.

  Lyndon

  Page of tweakers - Raid or no Raid

• RAID configuration problems

  I am in the process of setting up a new pc, with (among others):

  -Asus P9X79

  -i7 - 3930K

  -32GB 1600 G.Skill RipjawsZ

  -Asus GTX 660 Ti TOP

  -Samsung 830 256 GB SSD

  -4 Seagate Barracuda 2 TB

  Windows is installed, Production Premium 5.5 and Norton Internet Security. All fully updated. It works perfectly, even if the performance of the disk should be improved a bit.

  But when I try to change the SATA setting in the BIOS to ACHI to RAID, Windows won't start. BSOD a short while after the animated Windows Startup logo appears (code 0000007 b, no description whatsoever except a CHKDSK /F is recommended).

  What's not? Have I forgotten a simple step or make me a more serious problem? I haven't started yet by selecting the disks for the raid still (planning to 2 of the 4 Barracudas in a RAID0 configuration).

  Any ideas are appreciated.

  (BTW, the markers are reported as Catsplace gold in PPBM5).

  Maybe

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/975453

• All disks on Areca RAID card?

  When the version PCIe 3.0 1882ix Areca raid controllers are loose, I'll be able to mount a raid 5 Bay 4-6 for the media and other files.  Okay, it's a no-brainer. But...

  What other readers? My motherboard has two raid on board - Intel and Marvell controllers.  Not to mention that drives data raid 5, the system must:

  -1 system SSD disk

  -2 WD Velocirapter drives in raid 0 for the paging file and media cache

  -1 WD Blue disk in a removable Bay for archiving

  These disks must be on the Areca?  On the MOBO raid controllers? Advantages and disadvantages of each solution?

  Thank you

  Dan.

  Looks like a lot.

• June-July 2013 video Assembly Hard Drive Configuration - ideas welcome!

  Greetings from Adobe community,

  I am a new Member and this is my first question. I appreciate all well informed and advice experienced for my hard drive configuration.

  My new system:

  CPU: Intel i7 3930 k

  MOBO: Asus P9X79 DELUXE

  CPU Cooler: PTC 812 CM (Start with Air cooling, hesitant to use liquid for now)

  RAM: 64 GB Corsair Vengeance (1600 MHz) (8 GB ea. of course)

  GPU: GTX 650 Ti push (went here with plan slim for sell / level as necessary or suggested)

  Case/Tower: Stryker CM Storm

  Block of power SUPPLY: Seasonic 80 + Platinum 860W (currently overkill)

  OS: WIndows 7 Pro (with option to upgrade to 8)

  Engraver: writer pioneer BD & DVD LG burner (excited and anticipating a commercial version of a new technology Petabyte optical )

  -> http://www.extremetech.com/computing/159245-new-optical-laser-can-increase-dvd-storage-up-de-un-p etaoctet

  Now, I am open to any suggestion that could be a bottleneck above, but my main question is about my setup of my hard drive:

  I have the following drives:

  2 x Samsung 840 Pro 256 GB SSD

  2 x 1 TB WD Caviar Black HARD drive (7200 RPM)

  2 x 3 TB Seagate Barracuda HARD drive (7200 RPM)

  I'm looking for the best speed, performance and use of these readers cs6 Master Collection, with a special attention given to AE, Premiere Pro and Photoshop.

  (FYI: I'll backup all important files on a burning of final projects and external HHD comics)

  My plan inspired by suggestions on AF and elsewhere:

  1.) C: 1 x Samsung SSD: OS & programs

  2.) D: 1 x Samsung SSD: media Cache & Previews

  3.) x Seagate E: 1 3 to HARD drive for exports (should I buy another and raid it?)

  4.) F: 2 x WD 1TBs in Raid 0 for projects

  5.) G: 1 x Seagate 3 TB HHD for media (I would add buy another and raid it?)

  6))) < BONUS disc > I plan on running the tests to see how can I use the max RAM, and all that is not used, I am hoping to hear positive comments on make a virtual disk or a couple of them.   (I saw incredible reference points for them).  If it is recommended that could I use a virtual drive for {2 - Cache of media & Preview} or should I just use it for file exchange, cache and other temporary files? (or he renounce the total?)

  I know it's a trick question, and I'm open to other suggestions which could include buying ~ $300 in additional disks if it will increase enormously the speed and performance.

  Thank you all for reading, and I'm really looking forward to learning of your knowledge and your experience in this field!

  Mike,

  1. Check. Port SATA 6G. Add a static pagefile of 1 or 2 GB here.
  2. Check. Port SATA 6G.
  3. Check. 3G SATA port. No sense in this RAID and double the risk of data loss. Even a 25 GB export should only ± 3 minutes or less to write.
     • The time for export is spent on coding, not on writing. Why take the risk and spend money for a possible second 80-90 win on each export 25 GB? How many times do you do that?
  4. Check. SATA 6G Marvell ports. Make regular backups of your projects.
  5. Check. 3G SATA port. I would be very hesitant to raid0 from the original due to the risk of data loss.
     • X 79 platform is designed for dedicated raid controllers and RAID parity. If you need more speed, go in this direction.
  6. Forget about it. It is not practical. Windows does not start without a swap file, so it will always create a pagefile on C: dynamic if it can't find it. With 64 GB of memory the swap file will be used little or not at all. A static file of 1 GB is sufficient. Whenever you turn off your computer, the RAM disk gets erased and from the start should be newly created. This means that the cache of media must be newly created, indexing, compliant and creation of peakfiles must be made whenever you open a project. This time lost far outweighs the potential gain of a faster RAM drive.

  Just my $0.02

• Can I get comments on building a new PC edition?

  Before I try to communicate my situation, I want to say how much I appreciate the information that so many people have contributed to this show. knowledge is empowerment, so thank you, thank you, thank you. I'm trying to get into the digital film work full time. My current system is, at best, obsolete, and so, for financial reasons, I am trying to build a viable system capable of working with HD video, etc. I have about 2500.00 to work with and after spending an insane amount of time and energy, spinning my wheels technically challenged, trying to get the right information in the choice of components of the legal system, here's some of what I thought:

  CPU: Intel i7 4930

  Cooler: Corsair Hydro H50

  MOBO: Asus P9X79 Pro

  OS: Win 7 pro64 bit

  Memory: 16 GB RipJaw DDR3 1866 Z

  GPU: Nvidia GTX 770 2Gig

  Blue Ray: Pioneer RBDR 208

  Power supply: Corsair Pro AX1200i

  System drive: 2 GB Seagate Barracuda XT 7200

  Media players: 2X3GB Seagate Barracuda XT 7200 (Raid 0)

  Case: Antec Nine Hundred Mid Tower

  Not sure about a raid controller card.

  Go to http://forums.adobe.com/community/premiere/hardware_forum?view=all and read on for more information about LOTS

  My only comment is to get a full turn for a wiring easy and best case cooling... as http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119225

• Please advice on my potential order

  Since the purchase of the chip of 3930 k I7 3 weeks ago, I was literally too busy with research projects and buying the rest of my new job.  I have now found a small window in my schedule to finally get this thing done, problem is that I still forget much of what I learned last 2 months.  So, if anyone of you, the more savvy people would be kind enough to give me your opinion and suggestions on the system, I'm about to buy, I would greatly appreciate your time and your knowledge!

  At the present time, I have dust collection: i7 3930 chip k, Thermaltake 1050W certified 80Gold, win 7, production premium cs5, autodesk entertainment creation suite.

  My budget is $ 3000.00 currently do only Canon 5 d stuff, but foresee R3d later in the year.  All prices and products are from newegg (although I can buy at amazon since I was the first).

  $549.99 - EVGA 03 G-P3-1595-AR GeForce GTX 580 (Fermi) classified ULTRA 3072 MB 384 - bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x 16 HDCP Ready SLI Support video card

  (Note: I see here a new GTX coming out at the end of this month, I need my system has been operational since this month, I should just buy a cheaper gtx 560? and wait?)

  $369.99 - ASUS P9X79 DELUXE LGA 2011 Intel X 79 SATA 6 Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel motherboard with UEFI BIOS (even if I prefer a Council with an iEEE port)

  2 x $129.99 (for a total of 32 GB of ram) - G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16 GB (4 x 4 GB) 240 - Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 (PC3-14900) 1866, model of F3-14900CL9Q-16GBXL desktop memory

  $449.99 - areca ARC - 1222 PCIe x 8 SATA / SAS RAID card

  5 x $109.99 - Western Digital RE4 WD5003ABYX 500 GB 7200 RPM 64 MB Cache SATA 3.0 Gb / s 3.5 "drive hard internal-Bare drive

  (Note: to do a RAID 3 data with 4 discs with 1 drive backup, as these discs are on sale until the 3/12 so I buy them immediately if they are good to go)

  $169.99 OCZ Vertex 3 VTX3-25SAT3 - 120G 2.5 "120 GB SATA III MLC internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

  (reader program)

  $159.99 - HITACHI sister 7 K 3000 HDS723020BLA642 (0f12115) 2 TB 7200 RPM / MIN 64 MB of Cache SATA 6.0 GB/s 3.5 "drive hard internal-Bare drive

  (the universal player)

  $129.99 - Antec DF - 85 black computer case full Tower ATX, steel / plastic

  TOTAL: $2638,88
  

  EVGA video card is a good choice, but in fact, if the rumors are correct, the Kepler 6xx series will be announced soon. However, the accouncing and have them in stock at an outlet local are two different things, not to mention the high price right after the introduction.

  Alternative mobo ASUS could be the ASUS P9X79 WS, who has embedded IEEE.

  Check carefully that the Ripjaw X works on this mobo. IIRC for the 79 X series platform Ripjaw Z are the recommended range.

  Make sure that you put a fixed pagefile (min = max) of about 16 GB or even 32 GB in disk Hitachi slightly before you use it for something else to make sure the file is the first file on the disk and delete the pagefile from C: drive.

  To avoid too much written that OCZ SSD, make sure that you give to your C: by default file locations and an another drive location. This can apply to My Documents, my music, Cookies, Internet Cache, download, Internet History, Temp, Application Data, Common Application Data, etc.

  For the rest, it seems OK to me.

• Problems Toshiba Ex - 320 GB HD usb 2.0 + unknown device.

  Windows XP pro Sp2
  AMD athlon 64 3500
  2gig ram
  200 GB WD HD Sata
  PCi-E 6800 GT MSI
  ASUS A8V-E Deluxe Mobo

  When I tried this out of the box, it worked fine, I can transfer files and everything, problem was that it would connect to usb 1.0. So I checked the bios the usb options have been enabled, I unplugged all the usb cables, I tried different usb, always usb ports 1 only. Ive tried to reinstall the drivers for the mobo cd and the official site. Still connected in usb 1.

  So I re installed Service pack 2, since then windows guard see the HD as unknown device now, and I can't access the HD. So yah SP2 makes things worse. I thought a restoration system, but since January 1, my previous save points seems to have disappeared.

  I can't find any drivers associated with this product on this site... Its a Toshiba 320 GB USB 2.0 external hard drive.
  Ive also tried going into win xp in safe mode, remove all controllers and usb devices, restart in normal mode, wait 5 minutes for the reconstruction of the database, then plugged back in the ex - HD, said peripheral unknown. Ive tried to update driveer with windows looking for me and myself to the research in the win xp cd and the file I386 etc..

  Hmm help?

  I intend to format my HD in a few days anyway, but I'd like get this working before cela ex - HD.

  Hello

  In my opinion, you will be very happy if someone has experience with the same question as yours because I noticed that on this forum there are a few discussions on laptop and different problems.

  Have you tried to uninstall SP2?

• IastorA.sys is not found

  Hello world

  I need to downgrade a machine windows 7 to windows XP. I have formatted discs and I try to install windows XP using RAID1.
  Sata is configured for Raid mode. I downloaded the raid drivers and store them on a floppy disk. I then press F6 to load and I get a list of RAID and AHCI drivers to load.
  I tried all the raid drivers appearing on the list and every time the driver is loaded successfully from the diskette. I then press 'enter', the installation continues for a few seconds and then I get the error:

  iaStorA.sys is not found

  I do not understand why. It loads the driver but then cannot find it?

  I also tried to integrate the driver iastora.sys with nLite on a Setup disk, but didn't make any difference.

  Any suggestions please?

  Thank you very much

  Hi again,

  After spending a whole day trying to install XP (32 bit) on a new ASUS P9X79 motherboard, I find 32-bit but just that the driver of the TSRI will support XP 64-bit, and that's why I am getting the above error.