Thanks for the input.

Ok, i have another question i have asked before (not in this thread), but am still wondering about. - It seems like whenever i have a failed OC attempt, my raid craps out, and i have to wait 3-4 hours for it to repair. Is there anyway around this?

Also, say i tried to OC while the raid was crapped out, and it failed again, would it f**k up my whole hdds?

xxrabid93

Thanks for the input.

Ok, i have another question i have asked before (not in this thread), but am still wondering about. - It seems like whenever i have a failed OC attempt, my raid craps out, and i have to wait 3-4 hours for it to repair. Is there anyway around this?

Also, say i tried to OC while the raid was crapped out, and it failed again, would it f**k up my whole hdds?

I would say something could become seriously corrupted.  I was thinking of raid0 with two ssd's, but I think I'd be asking for trouble seeing that most of my OC attempts are failed

John might know...he bought 2 ssd's recently but don't know if he put them in a raid config.

on the ultra kazes...I have 8 of 'em.  And they are powerful, loud, and move a ton of air.  I just got my thumb caught in one of them....not good...almost ripped my fingernail off....blood everywhere.       Shortly after that I broke P33k on my 480....it was worth it

i did the same thing with one of my 5k fan mini me fans.


not running raid for that very reason there!
but what i do now, is load a complete os with drivers and benching software. then i make a complete back up of the drive. when it jacks up where i cant recover..i just restore.
i dont store any of my game saves or pictures of runs on that drive. it is stored on another drive all together


so, restores work the same way and just as fast..worse case...your back up and running 10 minutes later...all depends on where you back up is saved.

xxrabid93

6000!!!!!!
 
Whoops, i didn't see you said you wanted Nate to have it Halo. Now i feel kinda bad for "stealing" it. But he's offline anyways. Ya snooze ya lose.

I am NEVER offline :P  i will try for 7000th... 8000th... etc. 
Old soldiers they never die... they just fade awaayyyyy

i have a question.
how come my rig doesnt show on mod rigs????
i deleted it and re set it up and still nothing. any ideas?

wish I could tell you but I haven't used it since they update the format, which sucks...

How long will 30lbs of dry-ice last with a 920?

johnksss

not running raid for that very reason there!
but what i do now, is load a complete os with drivers and benching software. then i make a complete back up of the drive. when it jacks up where i cant recover..i just restore.
i dont store any of my game saves or pictures of runs on that drive. it is stored on another drive all together


so, restores work the same way and just as fast..worse case...your back up and running 10 minutes later...all depends on where you back up is saved.

Just an fyi, i am running raid 1, not raid 0. How do you restore the system? I backuped my system once to an external hdd when i was switching to i7, and when i tried copying everything back over, it worked, but i couldn't use any program because it wasn't installed. Is there a way to do that, or would i just have to reinstall every program and only be able to copy over my data files?
 
How would one go about setting up hdds so one is just the OS and maybe a few programs, and another is a data and program drive? I've always thought when you save stuff, it automatically saves it to the hdd the OS is on. Is there a setting for saving everything to a separate drive than an OS/boot drive? If there is a way to do this, i would love it, as i wouldn't probably be way less cautious about OC'ing my main rig, as i wouldn't fear screwing it up for the reasons you gave.
 

threedhero

wish I could tell you but I haven't used it since they update the format, which sucks...

How long will 30lbs of dry-ice last with a 920?

Probably a fairly long time. On my pentium D 915 (95w 2.8ghz dual core), i probably used between 5 and 10lbs for a 6 hour session, and that was at 5.2ghz. Ya i know there is a big difference in the procs, but i still think 30lbs would last a long time...even with an i7.

Thanks xxxrabid, hmmm 6hr session huh wow maybe I'll start with 10lbs. Don't want to sit around for 6hrs lawl. The dryice place is only 5 mins from my house so if more is needed it shouldn't be a problem.

I'd rather bench my i5 655k but the only P55 borad in the house is my GF's and she won't let me prep it

For multi OS on one drive you'll need to partition the HD with the windows disk. It's like doing a fresh install but you have to set the size you want for your bench OS. I have XP Pro with 10gbs on one partition and W7 with 25gbs. I use the left over 100gbs for W7 gaming drive.

You will most likey have to wipe the drive and reinstall all your programs. Some programs have data folders so if you went through and saved the data to a usb or another drive, then put the data in the program folder once you reinstall it "should be" safe. You may want to google that but that's worked for my games in the past. Also your partitioned drive will show up in windows as D or F depending on how many drives you have. Hope that gave you a few answers...

how would a pentium D 945 3.6 ghz perform in 2k1? and can you run them on X48 boards?

What is 2k1?
Just google X48 boards and start reading

lawl Duh sorry working on no sleep, from what I've seen the E8600 OC the highest for "2k1" on bot.