I just got the Gigabyte verison of the 5770 for my new P55 i5-750 system and its extrememly quiet. With a Thermalright Ultra 120 with 120mm Nexus fan, Intel SSD and WD Green 750 gig drive, its more or less inaudible. I played some NFS: Shift at 1920x1080 with 4x AA and all quality options set to hig...

Well Im still wating to get in the i-RAM, but I just got in some of the new 400GB 16MB form Western Digital. First impressions in my view are that they are pretty quiet. Ther is no whining at all, just the smooth whooshing sound of air over the platters. Its no louder than my existing 3200JD which I...

I should have an i-RAM in hand sometime next week. If there are any tests you'd like me to do while I have it i'd be happy to do it.

Nothing yet...theyre still waiting to the review units in from Taiwan. Dont know about who will sell them though.

I work for G4TV in tech editorial (read Tech Lab) as a Labrat and product coordiantor (fancy for PR preson). Basically any product you would see on Attack of the Show...formerly The Screen Savers, come through me or my co worker. Im trying to get silent realted tech products on the show, but the pro...

So I spoke to the mareketing rep, and was told he would be getting in some review samples as early as next week. But get this...there will only be 5 review samples total for the whole US. Hes been getting a lot of requests to check it out..icluding companies like Lockheed and Kodak, so Im not sure i...

Aleksi wrote:Instigator, I guess you haven't seen those films with "anal suspension"

Nope...dont want to either.

As long as you had some type of airflow youd be ok. Maybe keep up a steady bean diet to keep the methane flowing.

I guess if you put it up there with some sorbothane, the vibrations could be reduced. Im not sure if suspending would even be an option. OK...Ill stop before we get into the "airflow" issues.

I guess shoving a hard drive up your ass will quiet it down, but Im not OK with the install.

Im sure you're right, I. Those conversations I had with the Gigabyte rep were wrong and he had no idea what he was talking about. Thank you so much for clearing up the confusion with your godly knowledge of unreleased products.

Heres the link: http://www.koolance.com/shop/product_in ... cts_id=180

Its cooling unit sits between the EXOS and the EXOS II.

According to the Gigabyte rep I talked to, he said they are RAID-able. Im going to try it regardless. FWIW, we have been talking to Corsair about getting in RAM and they are going to contact Gigabyte about when it is available and possible moving us up the chain in getting some review samples in. Th...

Ummm the iRAM is bootable. It uses the SATA bus. Thats why there is such a buzz about it. Did you read any of this thread?

WOW. Thats one of the best reviews Ive ever read.

This is good news though

Well we are planning on running the cards in either a new ATI Crossfire or N-Force 4 mobo which with both have native support for SATA II integrated into them. We really want the SATA II i-rams but they wont be out for some time it seems. It going to be teh roxxorz!!!!!1 either way though.

There are some graphs vs a regular SATA drive here: http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2005/05/31/gigabyte_ramdisk/ , but that is the only info regarding measured sppeds I have been able to find. I didnt get any info regarding RAID speeds, but he did say it would defenitiely work. I will be calling them n...

Those speeds would be from RAM drive to RAM drive. Remember the bottleneck would be the HD and waiting for it to finish writing/reading. RAM drives are great for I/Os and random read and writes, but large data transfers will be limited by the hard drive youre writing to/from.

Since it will use SATA II, the pci or pcie slot would only be used for mounting and power. I dont think the number of lanes even matters. He didnt have any specifics on what they would do in the next gen version, but he said they were working on it...I guess well have to wait and see.

I spoke to a Giigabyte product manager and he said it could take 2GB sticks to make an 8GB drive, but its very pricey and hard to find. He also told me they are testing a lot of different RAM for compatibility and they are still expecting a release of around mid-july. What about making them SATA II...

I spoke to a Giigabyte product manager and he said it could take 2GB sticks to make an 8GB drive, but its very pricey and hard to find. He also told me they are testing a lot of different RAM for compatibility and they are still expecting a release of around mid-july.

Theres a video review at 3dgameman.com here:

http://www.3dgameman.com/vr/nexus/drive ... ew_03.html

Another thing to watch for - the 24-pin ATX power cable just barely reached from my S12-500, but the 4-pin ATX power cable was short (this is to an A8N-SLI). Could be a problem with other motherboards as well. -Art Its too bad that it wont reach since I have same MB and planned to buy S12-600 and P...

Its soo easy to put the page file on the second drive and it is by far the most reccomended way of using a page file that I cant think of any reason to not put it on the second drive. BTW, even if you tell windows to not use a page file, it will make one anyway and it will be on the root drive on a ...

Run the OS on the Rator with your programs. If you short partition the drive - make it 20 gigs and leave the rest of the drive unpartitioned - you can actually reduce seek times even lower. When you partition the large storage drive, make a static page file of 400 to 500 MB right away so it is on th...

The 120mm panaflos are not known to be all that quiet. FWIW, my 120mm panaflo sucks at any voltage and I dont even use it. Its all about the nexus or yate-loons to get that system quiet and comfortably cooled.

Have you updated your bios? Usually that will solve any of those problems. If windows recognized full capacityand can access it, what is the problem anyway?

If you are going to remount the HS, I would reccomend applying the thermal paste the way arctic silver reccommends for processors with heat spreaders: Put a small glob in the center of the processor and mount the HS. Pressure and heat will spread out the compund and give the best results. Using the ...

At my work, we have a pentium 133 and a pentium 166, both of which are on 24/7 and havent had any problems after 7 or so years...maybe more. One of the cpu fans started groanong about a year ago so i sprayed a little WD40 on it and its been quiet ever since. Amazing what old crap is able to do.

Your temps really arent that out of line and are very safe. Some questions that need to be addressed are what kind of thermal compound and how much was used. What is your ambient air temp? What kind of numbers were you getting with the stock HSF? Is it a prescott or northwood CPU? I personally have ...

Thats no problem. Remember that raptors are enterprise level drives so they can handle a lot more abuse than most home users can deliver. They have their own built in heatsinks even. Dont worry about them at that temp.