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“What is the most important feature for you when deciding on a case?” For me it is accessability after all the other issues -- motherboard fitting properly, cooling space, et al. Being able to access the mb and all components is very important as I am often changing things around. Your review...

If the Corsair Dominator 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 1600 MHz (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory (CMP6GX3M3A1600C8) - $50 is not sold would be interested for my backup machine. ty /* Phil */

I have 2 Asus MBs and one MSI GD65 77. The latter is an excellent board with no problems.

I just experienced a major problem with my system early this morning. System which has 2 RAID1 sets configured crashed and was unbootable. I restored backup from a week ago but apparently the RAID setup did not exist when I restored it. Should have waited till the next day as this occurred at...

JCNiest5, Would appreciate hearing of any problems you encounter over the next few days so that I can avoid installing a defective update. Or, for that matter, from anyone who has installed this update. Thanks very much,

Raja, This motherboard functions properly with 2 Raid1 setups; however, there is definitely a problem wherein the 2 PCIe 3.0/2.0 slots in the Maximus V Formula/ThunderFX are not properly recognizing somewhat older video cards. I have a GTX 9800 which, no matter what I attempt to do, will not...

Raja, I am abandoning the RocketRaid as they wrote back to me that they don't support Trim. So now I am kind of stuck. Ulrich at the Asus Vip website responded with some info. Unfortunately posting there can be difficult as one usually gets the following repsponse: 'Due to the Server is now...

Btw here is the answer: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/disable-power-management-on-windows-vista/

Humerous reply, Raja, but I will look up your citation. As a matter of fact I have been building computers since 1978, was a designer of audio hardware, a tech writer, and could send you an extensive bio elaborating further lol. I probably have built around 50-60 systems over the years. Built...

Raja, I have one other question re: MaximusV/ThunderFX. I have yet to find w/in the bios a means of having it powered on all the time. Currently if I don't do anything for a while it powers down/off. I never powerdown any of my machines while working and oft times they are on continuously for...

Thanks for the response Aesma. The RocketRaid that I am using is the 640L which presumably supports SATA III and SSDs. I was looking for a card that would support SSDs rather than using the Mb Raid support via the CPU as I don't want to slow down the CPU. I am using RAID1 for 2 sets of 2...

I have been using RocketRaid controllers for a long time. I have built a new PC, which I am not using as I am running into some issues. My Raid controller seems to be working, though when I had 2 separate RAID setups the system crashed and would not reboot. I had updated the firmware on one pair...

Raja, Everything is resolved. Apparently while the Raid card initialized Drive C, which consisted of 2 RAID 1 drives, during the Windows 7 installation, it did not, as in previous HighPoint Tech Raid cards in other machines, initialize the drives when it initialized them as RAID drives in...

Yes the problem is persistent across all usable slots. I installed the Samsung 'Magician' software and updated the firmware on these two drives. The Samsung software shows them both as 'unitialized drives' and I cannot run any Samsung tests as the drives have no volumes displayed. I will...

Thanks, Raja. Btw I did read the manual. I read very quickly and missed the quick flash info as I was reading the areas concerning layout and construction. Before disabling the SATA connections I am going test each of the drives separately, not as a RAID mirroring pair, to make sure they are...