Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.
here is a quick breakdown without going into details
DRIVE CACHING
"write caching" is good to have enabled on single drives that are not in a RAID array.
"write caching" is good to have enabled on "battery-backed cached" RAID arrays
"write caching" is NOT GOOD to have enabled on RAID...
quick format using default settings, they were both brand new drives i bought 3 days ago, i partitioned them using windows 7 sp1 64 bit and i setup the raid in the INTEL RAID CONTROLLER ROM/BIOS
I have a Intel 2500K Process and a 3TB RAID 1 on a 2 x SATA 3Gb/s Port on a Intel® Rapid Storage Technology RAID ARRAY. Im using the 3TB RAID 1 ARRAY for storage and im using a Crucial M4 128GB drive for my primary boot drive. My M4 drive operates normal good speeds. However on my RAID 1 ARRAY...
for about $20-$30 on a good aftermarket cpu cooler you should be able to hit 4.5 ghz with decent temps. Its not really necessary to spend $50+ just to overclock.
I'm using the Prolimatech Megahalems in a "push config" with the Scythe "ULTRA KAZE,
my temps never go past 57c on LOAD @ 4800mhz 1.35v vcore!!
Im using G.SKILL 1600 Ripjaws 2x4 (8GB) 1.5v 9-9-9-24-2N w/ XMP (F3-12800CL9D-8GBRL)