My new build - did I get the bios raid stuff right? Also, care to help me OC my 920?

jonesad

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I just finished my new build (specs in sig) and so far it seems really awesome! I am wondering if I got the BIOS stuff right, especially when it comes to my hard drives. So, I put my storage config drives as "RAID" (not ide or ahci). On my sata 1, I have my 300GB raptor and I installed my OS to that. I then connected my 1TB drives to sata 2 and 3 and I used the bios tool to configure those in a RAID 0 array. In windows, I went to disk management and saw the 2TB drive and formatted.

Is that right? Will having my storage set to "RAID" mess anything up it I have the 300GB on there and its not in raid?

Also, now that I have my stuff running all nice and stable, I think I'd like to OC my 920 a bit. I'm not looking for anything crazy, just something I can have it running at all times - maybe 3.20 ghz. So my question is, should I just change my BLCK setting to 160? Right now, I have my OC profile as "XMP" because my memory has a profile (which my mobo picked up right away).

Thanks!
 
I then connected my 1TB drives to sata 2 and 3 and I used the bios tool to configure those in a RAID 0 array. In windows, I went to disk management and saw the 2TB drive and formatted.

Is that right? Will having my storage set to "RAID" mess anything up it I have the 300GB on there and its not in raid?

Just keep in mind that if either of those 1TB drives has any sort of hiccup (aka failure), you're going to lose everything on that 2TB RAID volume. RAID0 gives you speed with a higher risk of data loss.

Other than that your system should run fine.
 
Cool - I'll use that guide, thanks for the link!! The one other thing I didn't do is load the Intel ICH10R AHCI/RAID driver OR the marvel SAS controller into windows 7 during the install. Is that step even required with windows 7? if so, I'll do a clean install since I'm not that far into using this system.

Andrew
 
Win7 has the drivers for those controllers since they're pretty common.
 
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