Saturday, April 5, 2008

Setting up Hard Drives

I've decided to go with 10 Mtron 7000 Pro's at 64GB each in RAID 0 for my Windows / AutoTrader drive. 6 Mtrons have already arrived, and I've been testing out 5 of them (1 was DOA). Even with only 5 of the 10 drives in, the Battleship Justy scores a 13,584 in PCMark Vantage, which would make it the 4th fastest computer ever tested.

I'm going to have 4 more drives, with a total 3.7 TB capacity installed for storage drives, these will be installed in the next week as their enclosure arrives.

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Stepping down for stability

I've been trying to get the system as stable as possible today, which means bringing down the Vcore to reasonable levels, and with it, the clock speed. Currently I'm testing 4.4GHz in Vista and it seems to be running stable, even under heavy stress.

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

5GHz in Vista

After upping the CPU voltage to what is probably a near-suicidal 1.75V, I'm posting this from Windows, running at 5GHz. The system doesn't seem to be crashing right away, but SuperPi refuses to run at all, and, trying to take a screenshot, I experience a strange graphics error:

Edit: The strange graphics appear to be a gfx card error, as I'm having the problem even running everything at stock. Upping the voltages a bit more (pushing the 70ยบ C cutoff) got Windows slightly more stable at 5GHz, enough to finish a 1M Superpi run, with a time of 9.454 s.