A quiet notebook drive in a good enclosure makes a nice combo. A little short on performance, though.

Mike, Did you happen to try a 20 pin atx plug in the board? I have an older 20 pin fanless power supply that doesn't seem to make any coil buzzes or other noises. Would be a nice combo. Yes, I do recall trying a 20-pin ATX, and it worked fine, but no substantial testing was done. In general, 20-pin...

Mike,

Did you happen to try a 20 pin atx plug in the board? I have an older 20 pin fanless power supply that doesn't seem to make any coil buzzes or other noises. Would be a nice combo.

ICH5R with RAID0 is works but... You must install winxp on another drive with the 2 i-ram and install the Intel Storeage Matrix 5.5 (This the last ISM with ICH5R support!!) Then create the RAID array under windows :P And boot up with the xp installcd, then setup is recognize the array. Thank you!! ...

IsaacKuo wrote:I'll be using linux's software RAID.

That's pretty cool. At $15 a whack, why not. It'd be fun to play with regardless.

Is there even any kind of hardware that would let you get USB drives into RAID?

I couldn't say for sure. Here is a link to the RAM I installed.

http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?name=D400_1GEL

I just bought the cheapest DIMMs I could find at the time. These were $65.

I know what you mean. Going to the other extreme is my notebook drive. Very quiet and reliable, but.... Samsung I'd like to see a motherboard that piped PCIe lanes to an onboard controller that was connected to eight DDR2 800 DIMM slots. Sweet!! I bet it would sell like wildfire provided it had good...

Intel's ICH5R has two modes: Compatability and Enhanced. In compatability mode the two SATA ports are set to run as slave and master on single IDE channel and share the singla channel's 150MB/s bandwidth. This setting allows compatability with Windows ME and earlier, hence its name. In Enhanced mode...

The most I have done is make an image.

I just set up my new I-RAM, installed XP and drivers, updated to SP2 and trimmed XP down to size. It was the only "hard drive" in the system, so I shut down Windows, but never shut down power to the system. I plugged in a HDD to copy an image to, and when I started up the machine, the I-RAM had los...

Psssst... Hey everyone.

If your Pentium/Celeron M motherboard comes in a retail box and your Pentium/Celeron M CPU comes in a retail box - they are going to work together. You can safely ignore all the pin-socket distinctions and confusion.

Ain't got nothing to lose, as long as you're careful when mounting it. Could I talk you into helping the ignorant? I've never had the good fortune of working with a CPU that didn't have a heatspreader, cap thingy, like found on a P4. What are the things to be careful about and/or avoid when working...

Excellent! Thank you.

Well, the onboard Promise controller works in RAID, but, of course, it's piped through the PCI bus and gets the same ~112MB/s as the SiiG PCI card.

I received my Sapphire X1900XTX today and I just mounted the Accelero X2. I can tell you this: At idle, it is inaudible. I love it. There cannot possibly be a better option for silence. I would recommend it to everyone looking into purchasing a high-end ATI (or nVidia) card! No idea about temps yet...

Looking at the new Core Duo motherboard from AOpen, the heatsink retention clip looks remarkably like a socket 478 retention clip.

Good photos can be seen here at NewEgg.

Can a socket 478 heatsink be fitted? It would make a nice new home for an NCU-2000 I have doing nothing but collecting dust.

Someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong. I have the Asus P4P800-E Deluxe. I created a RAID driver floppy. I enable the ICH5R RAID in the BIOS. I reboot and configure the RAID. It shows the two i-RAMs in RAID0. I go back into the BIOS and set the new RAID set as the first hard disk.. From here bo...

If I was to speculate, and I am, I'd guess you have a problem with your BIOS, battery, or somewhere in between. The power supply couldn't effect the clock, but a failed battery or connection between the battery and the BIOS would cause your BIOS data, including clock settings, to revert to their def...

You need a NF4 sataII controller, or a highend Intel motherboard with native sata to remove the speed limits of PCI bus based controllers. There-in lies the irony. My $200 Intel board w/ICH5R southbridge wont run the i-RAMs in RAID but my $12 3112r PCI card will. I can get RAID, but only if I take ...

Accelero X2 vs V1 Ultra here: http://www.legionhardware.com/document.php?id=537 50+ DB is far from quiet, which is the problem. And he's calling it "nearly silent." The stock fan on the V1 Ultra at 12 volts makes a freakin' racket. Given the results in the review, I'd think a good test at cooling a...

Meanwhile I had another idea to throw at you... have you considered using disk compression? Traditionally, the main disadvantage of this was speed limitations... though it does nothing for reliability either... I think we would experience the same speed penalty in that it occurs at the CPU where da...

That's $1k plus the cost of 16GB of ECC RAM (~$150/GB x 16GB = $2,400.00). We coud get no less than 8 fully populated i-RAMs for that price. Nicely featured, though. PATA and SATA connector, ECC RAM allowing 2GB DIMMs instead of just 1GB. Auto back-up under power fail. Though I can't really understa...

I can't see your pictures, but I'm glad to see you're getting decent transfer rates through the PCI bus. EDIT: That's really wierd. When I hit the links from my computer at home all I get is a message on the new page that reads "Remote linking not allowed." But at work, also an XP machine using Inte...

I'm real happy with my ATI 9550 - 256MB It's not a screamer for games but has a really nice picture and doesn't display any screen flickers during boot or shut down. My X1600 Pro and X850XT both flciker a little during boot. The 1600, in fact, flickers a lot. The 9550 runs passive too. It has both a...

What is quieter at same performance (as silent as possible, without GPU overheating). VF900-Cu or Accelero X2 or V-1 Ultra? I don't have an X1900XTX to try it on, but I think you're pushing your luck trying to cool it quietly with a V1Ultra. I have one on my X850XT PE. The GPU gets up to ~70C with ...

I read the very same thing about loosing drive space, but I'm getting all 8GB.

I don't have a picture for you, but you can bend the offending pin over. I've done it myself for the very same reason and the notebook drive still functions fine. That is to say, the 2.5" drives don't use that pin either.

If I could just get them to actually RAID on the ICH5R they'd have the combined bus width of both independant SATA bus channels - 300MB/s. But the damn things wont work in RAID on the ICH5R.

I can never win.

I'm giving an Asus P4P800-E Deluxe a try. It has an Intel 865PE chipset and ICH5R southbridge, with an additional Promise PDC20378 PATA/SATA RAID controller. My luck, the Promise controller will work, but is piped through the PCI bus. :D Worst case, the board will give me some over/underclocking and...