Recent content by phrozenfayte

To add onto this, if you haven't already decided, I have the VIII Hero and the VRMs are basically cold no matter the load. Even without a fan directly over them, they struggle to hit 45c while pushing 200w through the CPU.

Well that's the thing, it seems to just be glass dust mixed with pmp and one of those dodgy silver coatings you find on all those cheap plastic mirrors. All easily mass producible. When you normally go to make a lab sample of something, you produce a tiny piece, enough to show off the effect of...

Update to the fan testing. Looks like i was overestimating quite a bit on the minimum fan duty. It seems to be set at 40% for PWM. When testing the PWM noctua fan with a 3 pin adapter, it wouldnt start spinning until i hit 40%. Testing the generic corsair 3 pin again, it works at 25%. Either...

I think I've discovered that the Chassis fan (CHA_FAN 1) has a PWM minimum duty of something like 70%. I recently bought a lovely 3000RPM noctua industrial to complement my final build, and plugging it into the chassis fan header has it on about 2150rpm minimum. No amount of fiddling with speed...

So a quick update to my findings. So far i've tried Liquesce, Drive Bender, StableBit's DrivePool, FlexRaid. I'm testing all this with 3 drives, 2 for the pool, on windows 8.1 with intel's standard AHCI setup. Drive Bender - Lovely interface, quick with no need to reboot. Not a lot of options...

Man that's harsh, and really wrong too. JBOD and Windows Storage Spaces and a shitload of other hardware and software solutions do just this, and there are benefits. I wanted a drive span so I didn't have to micro-manage my storage constantly. I could just manually fill one drive then move...

Ok sorry, I have no interest in redundancy. I just want JBOD or spanning or whatever its called. Several physical drives appearing as a single logical disk with 100% of available capacity. I'm building a super efficient HTPC/storage solution that'll be on 24/7. Whole system with OS SSD draws...

I've been raking my mind for days trying to find something like this, or at least a confirmed instance where one of the commercially available RAID and JBOD software's do something like this. Basically I want a software JBOD solution with MAID style power management, or... I want to fake the...

Just managed to scrounge up what I paid for my original beast. Australian pricing is brutal, paying on average 40% more for IT hardware. Overall my system has held up pretty well. The Raptors were a good choice and are still amazing drives. The GPU's were a horrible choice. Paying $1500 for...

Not sure why people keep quoting 16gb as the max size per slot on DDR4, samsung have already announced 32gb modules. So there's 128gb of ram to satisfy you at least in the interim. Also the way i've understood it, for terms of bandwidth compared to single/dual/tri/quad channel ram, is that...

More and more games are coming out with more threads than just 4, and will continue to do so in the next generation. Both the new consoles run on 8 core, low frequency cpus. Almost all of the development in the future will run on the basis of 4 minimum, 8 recommended. The 6 core 980x has a...

I'd like to think they'll put a bit more effort in the $1000+ enthusiast cpus compared to the consumer ones. I know we haven't seen Ivy Bridge-E yet, but if it gets soldered IHS' we can expect Haswell-E to get the same. That or we're back using a block of wood.

Having issues with these as well. My 480 was rock solid playing through Metro with these, but I couldn't play Planetside 2 without crashing a few seconds into combat. Rolling back fixes this. The opposite is true for my partner's 460, she's stable with a ~30% overclock.

Using this for about 4 months now and it works great. Checking my watt meter, it shaved off ~40-60 watts while watching movies, idling with a paused movie, multi monitor idle desktop, etc. However upgrading the latest 320 drivers has caused a lot of instability issues, mostly involved with...

Just saw this posted at VR-Zone: http://vr-zone.com/articles/intel-core-i7-ivy-bridge-e-core-i3-haswell-lineup-detailed/37832.html Looks pretty good. Finally getting an enthusiast 8 core system. DDR4 as well.