Recent content by sirloin

Great read, I didn't know about TLER before. I will share an experience with consumer level drives in a raid array though: 10 x Seagate 7200.11 (The ones with that nasty firmware error which cause the bios to not even recognize them..) 10 x Hitachi 1GB, 8mb cache IIRC 4 x WD20EARS All of the...

I have a dual 120mm rad, 2 x 5770 oc'd, NB and CPU (Q6600 oc'd). 120mm rad is on its last legs with all of this but still works. GPU temps are 60C max after 30min furmark, and CPU goes up to 65C with the over-clock and using linpack. Adding a NB block to your loop would be fine IMHO.

I was considering selling the whole server machine, just not sure I would get that much for it given It weighs a million pounds and shipping would be expensive. Thanks for the reply!

Basically I have two systems, one used to be used for a VM server but is no longer used for that. I would like your input as to which system I should use for gaming and which to run a storage array / linux use / programming+compiling. System1: Tyan Mobo S5397 24GB DDR2 800 FB Dual Xeon...