X_C Posted October 16, 2004 Author Share Posted October 16, 2004 Almost half Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronniecoleman Posted October 16, 2004 Share Posted October 16, 2004 Hey guys I went back to beta bios 9/14 this includes raid bios 4.53 and my I/O is back up to were it should be. Right now I'm running with 64 strip size and need to change back to 32k it will help my pit I/O by 20-30 points. :beer: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shogan191 Posted October 17, 2004 Share Posted October 17, 2004 ronnie I'm still using the orig. bios that came on my board. It's dated 8/27/04 I think. Do you have a link to the bios you are using. Is it one of the modded bios? What improvements are you seeing with it. Using 3 drives I'm using a stripe of 128 and getting consistant scores of 400+ for I/0. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronniecoleman Posted October 17, 2004 Share Posted October 17, 2004 (edited) Shogan check this out, its the lastest beta bios 10/15 with memtest built in. http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showthread...=&threadid=2237 I'm running 9/14, for some reason the newest bios killed my I/O scores so I switched back thanks to Raymo for pointing out the "simple things" The two things that 9/14 has is added vdimm up to 4V if your crazy enough and the ability to disable CPU Thermal Throttlin. Next install try a stripe size of 32k and see if you I/O increases any. Edit: I guess it would help if I posted the beta bios. http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showthread...ght=9%2F14+bios Edited October 17, 2004 by ronniecoleman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shogan191 Posted October 17, 2004 Share Posted October 17, 2004 Thanks ronnie. Yep, that's the one I saw. I'm not having any trouble with throttling so will keep the one you switched back to on file for use if I do. Have you been able to oc enough to offset the points gained from using 4 drives in raid? I hope you say yes because otherwise the competition is actually going to hold us back from ocing. LOL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronniecoleman Posted October 18, 2004 Share Posted October 18, 2004 Have you been able to oc enough to offset the points gained from using 4 drives in raid? Nowhere close to enough of an OC. My 3400+ just does not overclock will. I want to sell this one and get another that may overclocker better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shogan191 Posted October 23, 2004 Share Posted October 23, 2004 Hey ronnie. I just took my 3700+ off of the Vapo. I can tell you that it does make a difference. On the Vapo with no effort I could go 245 when using 2 drives in raid. and could go to about 235 using more than two drives. Using the stock fan and heatsink I'm getting 215. LOL It'll boot 220 but it's not stable. I've decided these 754s are great stock chips. It's hard to get excited about a 2.4 cpu hitting 2.9 or even 3.0. I guess I could pull the stock HS and use one of my thermalrights. I'll give that a try tomorrow. I was just thrilled to get it pulled off the Vapo and installed in the new case without doing a complete reinstall. I'm wondering if the residual waterproofing ( dielectric grease) is raising temps. Got as much as I could off the cpu and socket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronniecoleman Posted October 23, 2004 Share Posted October 23, 2004 Whats your plan Shogan are you planning to step up to a fx-55 with the current 130nm versions or are you going to wait for the 90nm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X_C Posted October 23, 2004 Author Share Posted October 23, 2004 Got a few new Ideas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shogan191 Posted October 23, 2004 Share Posted October 23, 2004 Well I've decided for certain to sell the DFI nf3 250 and the 3700+ cpu. It overclocks pretty good on the vapo but is limited on air. I don't think it's a bad chip. It think that is just the nature of these cpus. I already have the A8V from Asus. I imagine I will get the FX55. I'm hearing that at least it is strained silicon so that should help it. The only thing I've heard about the 90nm and the FX55 is that there isn't one. LOL When is it supposed to be released. I'm going to check things over at extreme this weekend and see what's shaking with them. I believe there are two members there that have the FX55 already. XC what are they? Don't be hoggin em. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronniecoleman Posted October 23, 2004 Share Posted October 23, 2004 Sho did you get a chance to max out the 3700+ on air? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shogan191 Posted October 27, 2004 Share Posted October 27, 2004 Hey ronnie. If you ask me, maxing out the 754 on air is akin to goosin a Fiat. Using the stock heatsink I wasn't able to get diddley out of mine. Again it was great at stock but just not an air ocer. I was also kinda disappointed in the results of using all the options in the bios. They all worked but I just didn't see that much of an increase in performance due to the changes. Seems to me there should be a corresponding increase when going from 2.5-3-3- to 2-2-2 but I was never able to measure any. I could get to 245x12=2940 without much effort but never pushed it it to see if I could get past the 3.0 mark. I know you said something about getting another cpu hoping it would oc better but I think I'm moving on to something else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hwattys Posted October 30, 2004 Share Posted October 30, 2004 This is very interesting. I have an HP Pavilion zv5255us laptop that uses the nforce 3 chipset and an AMD64 3400+ CPU. The disk I/O speed is not what I would expect and I upgraded to a Hitachi 7K60 7200 rpm hard drive. It sounds like I may have figured out how to get the hard drive read speeds up where they should be. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daishi Posted October 30, 2004 Share Posted October 30, 2004 (edited) does thsi go for hte nforce 3 Ultras also? like i ordered thsi mobo for my new cpu. http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc....-130-468&depa=0 will this mobo get thos really high i/o scores like the other nforce 3's were gettin ? Edited October 30, 2004 by Daishi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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X_C Posted October 30, 2004 Author Share Posted October 30, 2004 does thsi go for hte nforce 3 Ultras also? like i ordered thsi mobo for my new cpu. http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc....-130-468&depa=0 will this mobo get thos really high i/o scores like the other nforce 3's were gettin ? Yes, as long as you have 3-4 drives in the NVidia RAID. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daishi Posted October 30, 2004 Share Posted October 30, 2004 hmmm i have 2 raptors :\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X_C Posted October 30, 2004 Author Share Posted October 30, 2004 hmmm i have 2 raptors :\ Daishi, those Raptors in RAID on that board should still score around 120 = 240. Once you later add anouther, the score will increase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daishi Posted October 30, 2004 Share Posted October 30, 2004 k coo. cuz rite now i get like 103 as my max heh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneCool Posted November 2, 2004 Share Posted November 2, 2004 What program are you guys using to monitor the temps on this board..I hate the one that DFI uses....same as Soyo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X_C Posted November 3, 2004 Author Share Posted November 3, 2004 I just use the Asus Probe that came with the MOBO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronniecoleman Posted November 3, 2004 Share Posted November 3, 2004 I use the crap dfi gave on cd. Is speedfan or motherboard monitor supported. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneCool Posted November 3, 2004 Share Posted November 3, 2004 I just use the Asus Probe that came with the MOBO You should Asus Probe Speedfan does for the DFI..but its not that great And what comes with it totally sucks for a mobo that does what it does Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X_C Posted November 3, 2004 Author Share Posted November 3, 2004 Just ordered some Balistic RAM for this AMD 64, hope you guys are right about it performing well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raptor Posted November 4, 2004 Share Posted November 4, 2004 What speed is that Ram XC? I'm using corsair 3200 and stock runs about 8000 on the pittest Problem is... that it's only 400 speed and doesnt OC too high, but Stock... Whew! You guys got a link to that ram??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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