Originally posted by Deagle
It sounds like you have enough fans.
I'm upgrading this week also, but, until then, to fight the heat, I have my case open, with a room fan pushed up against it. It only drops my CPU temp by 3 degrees C, so as you can see the benefits of round cables would be hard to notice.
I read how to do RAID 0 on the new boards once; I work with SCSI so I'm not 100% sure, but, I think all you do is hook up the 2 drives to the 2 SATA connectors, select RAID 0 when you format and/or set it to RAID 0 in BIOS (I think it's in BIOS actually... formatting would have nothing to do with it). Apart from that you shouldn't have to do anything. The 2 drives get read as 1 drive with one drive name ( c:/ etc...) which has the sum of the disk space.
After that you just forget about it, and enjoy the speed.
I've got 2 drives coming in the mail for RAID 0.
I figured the fans would be sufficent but I can always change things out later to keep it cooler. So you tell it in the BIOS to RAID the drives and it should basically do the rest for me. Maybe I will push my budget a little further and get two Raptors.
Originally posted by sman789
with my ic7 (875p) i put two ide drives with sata converters (my board only does raid thru sata) into a raid 0 array.
one is 80gb the other is 120b, when in raidn 0 the total disk space is double the smallest
yes you do setup raid in the bios but when yo do you format the drives so backup if you need.
when u install windows you have to press f6 when it tells you to so you can install raid drivers (should be supplied wth the board)
i love raid...but both of my drives are ata and with those raptors it should be ultra fast
(just for saying it, i installed windows in 10 min and a total format of 160gb is less than a minute
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Hopefully installing XP won't be that hard. From what I've heard, it's relatively painless. Maybe I will try a RAID 0?
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