Recent content by Wythix

Because HD Tune is a program initially created to benchmark HDD not SSD. Did you try increasing the block size to something like 2 Mo ? I'm sure your ssd is fine but if you want to be sure, make real tests like coying large files from and to the ssd maybe with a ramdisk if you don't want to be...

Hardware or software renderer ? Because I've just completed the second and the third one with software renderer direct3D11 and didn't have a single glitch, well the only hiccups encountered were the exterior foggy passages on the 2nd one where the frame rate tanked a little @~30-40fps (with an...

Not necessary. I've secure erased an Intel X25M through usb 2/3 via hdparm. NB : the usb3-sata bridge is a recent asmedia controller so not a unknown chinese controller and the kernel is quite recent (3.14). There are mentions of bricking possibility but the fact is if you issue an hdparm -I...

Assuming you have 2 7970 in crossfire according to your sig, my first guess would be that is the cause. I had a similar issue with a crosshair 5 formula (990FX chipset). As soon as I installed a second 5850 in crossfire, the four rear usb3 ports (I don't have an usb3 front panel) stopped...

It's a disk from 2006 with both sata and molex connector which even with proper cooling was hot. The disk ran fine after that, but it was only used as punctual back-up and is now retired. Seagate drives do have a threshold smart attribute with a max temperature at 55°C. A temperature above...

I had a X-Craft 360 enclosure (the same one ?) with usb and e-sata connection and it's probably one of the worst enclosure regarding temp. IIRC it was discontinued quicky by coolermaster never to be replaced. According to the smart attribute, I had one caviar blue which ran hot with a peak at...

I'm sure it's supported since I can confirm that it works perfectly fine with a crosshair IV (890FX) and V (990FX), see the kernel logs with some crucial ecc unbuffered modules : EDAC MC: Ver: 2.1.0 [ 5.165740] AMD64 EDAC driver v3.4.0 [ 5.165771] EDAC amd64: DRAM ECC enabled. [...

Forget about MSI BS, yes you should run AHCI for its NCQ capabilities : http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Storage/Updated-Benchmark-Performance-SSD-Testing-AHCI-vs-IDE-or-perhaps-not As far as I know, Intel toolbox optimizer works only obviously with its drivers and microsoft's one but no amd...

Like others said, it's not a good idea to compress already ultra compressed files like images and video. Nevertheless I like having a big fat file instead of multiple smaller files, just use 7-zip ultra settings and LZMA2 compression. But it can also be quite powerful for games like DAO Ultimate...

Asus has made a 32-bit memory bus with the 6450, go figure. Like others said it's maybe not relevant for aero usage but I would stick with the standard 64-bit model. I have a 6450 from XFX and it runs perfectly fine on linux for desktop and media, and it's definitely silent since it's fanless :)

Did you try to open the win 7 dvd tray, click refresh and then close it in order to be able to continue the installation ?

Any news on linux distro install ? If someone managed to install and run it with mouse and keyboard support, please let me know. I tried all the usb options in bios, but maybe it's the kernel which don't interact correctly with the mobo or simply my logitech mouse and keyboards which block...

Is there an error code ? It's been a while since I setup a raid but here's a link http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itproinstall/thread/3021b3aa-ce05-4cfa-8119-a531ed2e4d63 to hopefully solve this Microsoft's trickery.

Hi, Same things happened when I tried to install several linux distros from usb sticks : it boots, then the installer states that it's unable to find a medium containing a live file system device. If I try via cd rom, it goes through the first screen with mouse/keyboards input but same as...

Or combine both via shred -zn# /dev/sdX for # (3 default) pass random and a final 0's overwrite. See man shred for more options.