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Thanks, that'll do. How about X79 boards? This ASRock X79 Champion board seems to fit the bill as well. I haven't been able to find any others. Am I overlooking any?

I'm looking for a Z77 or X79 board that has 3 PCI-E slots with lots of room between them. One example is the P8Z77-V Deluxe. The problem with this board is that the last PCI-E slot is only x4. The P8Z77-WS has 4 PCI-E x8 slots, but because there are 4 of them rather than 3, they are close...

I think smartphones are closer to year 2000 PCs than 1995. In 1995 a high-end CPU was a 90MHz Pentium. Smartphones have 1.2GHz dual-core chips. They also have 1GB of RAM compared to 1995's 8MB. Though I don't know how current-generation ARM hardware compares to 1995 x86 clock-for-clock. Maybe...

Even if you want to call it a marketing video and use that as an excuse to omit a fair evaluation of the pros and cons of your new technology, you still have to compare it to existing technology to explain what makes it better. He compared it to polygons. Where's the comparison to voxels?

What makes it more suspect is that they don't once use the word voxel, not even to compare their technology to voxels (if it is indeed different).

Thanks, but I updated the firmware on all my drives as soon as I got them, and verified that the write problem no longer exists. My problem with the drives is not caused by the firmware bug.

Yes, I realize that this doesn't cause any data corruption, which is why I've kept the drives as long as I have. But it does cause slowness.

They won't send me drives in advance, right? The several-week downtime would be too disruptive. I'd rather just amortize their cost for a bit longer and then throw them out. And you're right that any drive can be faulty. But I have a peculiar situation. These Samsung drives are allergic to my...

The one WD drive in my system does not experience these problems. I'm not talking merely about some number climbing up in SMART. I'm talking about the drives slowing down to a crawl when this happens. I do maintain daily backups of all critical data :).

Sorry to resurrect this old thread... but just to reply to Janmae: my G-Sense error rate has stayed almost constant since I bought the drives. But the "Multi Zone Error Rate" is now at 12679 (!). Nonetheless the drives do seem to function more or less OK ... but I'll replace them with WD drives...

Sorry for the late reply. That drive now has a write error count of 6197, but still normed value is at 100. How did your out-of-case experiment go?

What case and HDs?

Well the errors go away (either entirely or almost entirely) when I just leave the case door open. The drives were also working fine in my previous case -- an Antec P182. So there is definitely something peculiar about this case (a Silverstone RV02). Or at least the combination of this case and...

Yeah I was thinking of relocating them to the 5.25" bays. I'll be out of the country next week and I'll do that when I get back.

Oh, that's interesting to hear. Is there a chance it really is the PSU's fault then? It's an HX1000, which is a pretty popular choice around here I think. I also have another HD in there -- a 320GB WD, which has no problem. Though older HDs use different storage technologies. So I don't know...

Well the motherboard is ON standoffs of course, but there are no loose standoffs anywhere or anything like that... In one spot, I tied all of my SATA data cables with a cable tie that is metal wire covered in plastic. I hooked it to a metal hooking thingy on the motherboard tray. There are...

This gets stranger. I opened the panel again, and the write errors went away. But the closed panel didn't press on the connectors at all anymore. So I did this experiment: Close the panel at the bottom, but leave it open at the top. This way the panel doesn't touch any cables at all. Join the...

Oh I did. They're now on a different cable than they were on originally. Oooh I just got a UDMA CRC Error too!

Yeah that's possible. Though it's odd that both drives have write errors because the pressures on their respective connectors are quite different. They'd have to be pretty fragile. Ugh.

The computer that has no problem with the drive -- is the drive mounted in the same orientation as it is in the computer that does have a problem with it? I ask because my two HD204UIs also recently started spewing write errors (I'm at 4681 errors on one drive in a few days!), and the issue...

The write errors returned! Though the cable doesn't seem overly pressed anymore. So I don't know what's wrong with em. But now I'm going to unlearn the lesson about checking cables.

No problem!

By my measurement, from the front of my optical drive, until the last expansion slot, it's just under 9". My motherboard ends a few mm from the last expansion slot. My DVD drive is an Asus DRW-24B1ST, which according to Asus is 6.69" deep. Here's what that area looks like:

Agreed on that! That lack of space behind the side panel caused me to make this thread, and nearly reconsider my romantic feelings towards this case.

Yeah I know I feel incredibly lucky to have discovered this. It would have sucked ass to RMA the drives only to have the issue persist.

Well I think ideally you want the video card to exhaust hot air outside of the case, not into the case. That said, one of my 580s does both -- it exhausts hot air into the case as well as out of the case. The case still keeps both cards quiet, so I don't think it's that big of a deal. People...

It seems to have worked! No more write errors, even with closed panel. I did this (sorry for blur): Well it's 2738 write errors later but I learned a lesson. Check all cabling before declaring a drive defective.

Holy shit.. I did some more investigating, and the problem does seem to have to do with cables. But with power cables, not data cables. My two HDs are connected with this cable: I started running a 64GB dd write. Whenever I push on that loop in the cable with my finger (simulating the back...

I have 2 HD204UI drives in my system in RAID-0. During heavy disk activity, the write error count (raw value) goes up. Now it's at 848 on one drive and 1055 on another. Bad drives? Nothing to worry about? Switching SATA cables had no effect. Edit: Gah, I think this is happening because of...

B just tells you the color -- black. W means it has a window. The RV02B-W is the black version of the "Raven 2" with a window. E means it's the (newer) "Raven 2 Evolution" rather than "Raven 2". RV02B-EW is the black version of the "Raven 2 Evolution" with a window. You can google the...

Seriously awesome case for cooling GPUs. I run two GTX 580s for computing purposes for work, and they got insanely hot and loud when they were running in my P182. It sounded like a jet was about to take off when they were both computing. But the RV02 keeps them cool and quiet. It's pretty...

No headphones here. But that's ok. P67 works awesomely.

That's right, and I also have Asus' website telling me to wait for Fedex to send me a shipping label. But thanks.

I finally got around to RMAing my B2 P8P67 Pro, and today came the B3 version. In the package Asus included what appears to be a prepaid label to ship my board back to them via Purolator. But their web interface says that I'm supposed to wait for a prepaid label to arrive by email from Fedex...

What's the point of putting an SSD in the server? It'll help boot times, but isn't a server typically always on? If it's not a disk-bound server, the SSD isn't going to make it serve any faster. Also why P67 for non-overclockable CPU?

Other!

1.65v will work, but any higher can potentially destroy the memory controller on the CPU [ref]. You can google "sandy bridge 1.65v memory" for various discussions of this. Since 1.5v memory nowadays is available at no premium over 1.65v memory, 1.65v memory has fallen out of fashion. But there...

I think that if you're dealing with a retailer that pulls stunts like this, you'll probably have more trouble sending it back than it's worth (unless you know their customer service to be good otherwise). Unless the RAM is defective, there's no reason why it won't work. And for the record...

Ooo this is just like that time when I had an Antec P150 that killed a few of my motherboards using its deadly front USB ports!

Without guessing at their motivations, I can still say that their case reviews are crap. And the fact that they give out awards based solely on their experience opening the cover is ridiculous.