i'm about to reinstall Windows 7 64-bit on RAID 0 and i'm wondering if the following should be enabled or disabled in BIOS?
1) ACPI SRAT Table
2) ACPI APIC support
3) AMI OEMB table
i don't want the OS to have any kind of power management. i just want full performance all the time!
thanks.
thanks but the mobo that just died and i was having so much trouble with was a MSI 790FX-GD70.
i narrowed it down to the ASRock i mentioned previously and:
ASUS M4A79T Deluxe
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131363
and:
BIOSTAR TA890FXE...
just fyi i have:
AM3 AMD Phenom II X4 965 (140W)
4x2GB G.SKILL Ripjaws (1.5V)
4 SATA hard drives, 2 need to be in RAID 0
1 SATA DVD-ROM
currently considering ASRock 890FX Deluxe4 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813157208
opinions??
brand doesn't matter
what's the latest and the greatest that will get me the best bang for the buck that has easy/good overclocking support and lots of features like the MSI 790FX-GD70 most importantly:
AM3
RAID 0
CrossFire 2x16 PCI-e
1xPCI
4xDIMM (8GB total)
thanks
ok i just finished the super cold clearing of the cmos without battery for 15+ minutes thing and reseated everything except the CPU but it still won't shut down via case power switch or onboard power switch. still have to do a hard cut of power to turn it off. and still sleeping monitor too...
while i was playing a game my monitor went black, into sleep mode i think because the orange light is on. i checked the DVI connection between the monitor and video card, it's clean and secure.
tried to shut down computer by pressing power button on case, but it won't shut down. there's also a...
you have to set the boot order in your BIOS (CD-ROM first, hard drive second)
usually the DEL key will get you into your BIOS... keep pressing it as soon as you turn on your computer
make sure you save & exit after you change the boot order
1) shut down the computer and unplug it from the wall power outlet.
2) short the CMOS pins on the motherboard for a good ten seconds. there should be a connector on only one of the pins; reconnect it so that it's on both of the pins or use something metal like a screwdriver to touch the pins...
my opinion is another point against HP
build your own or you'll pay too much for less
even Newegg has pre-built computers that would be better than HP:
http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCateg...me=Desktop-PCs
you could even start off with one of Newegg's barebones computers and then buy whatever...
case:
Antec Nine Hundred (2 front fans, 1 top fan, 1 rear fan)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811129021
not sure what you mean by changing the fan profile on my 4890s, but i have manually set their fan speeds to 100% to reduce chances of overheating. lag still happens.
i don't...
this happens only sometimes, but the longer i play Battlefield Bad Company 2, the more local "lagg" i may experience. by local lagg (yes, an extra "g"), i mean my display may get somewhat skippy and my input control (mouse to on-screen movement sync) may "gap" every couple of seconds. for...
i just updated my mobo's BIOS (MSI 790FX-GD70) and i'm wondering if i should clear its CMOS? will doing so put my RAID 0 data at risk if the RAID controller is on my mobo?
i guess i should mention there are no problems that i'm aware of after updating the BIOS, but some people suggest clearing...
ok thanks for the responses guys
i play @ 1680x1050 res
CPU is quad core AMD Phenom II 965 3.4GHz
regarding 6850 CrossFire setup, would i or wouldn't i experience much of an improvement?
I have two Radeon HD 4890 1GB in a CrossFire setup and would like to replace them to:
1) increase performance
2) reduce power consumption (if possible)
3) have DX11 support
I'm hoping to spend no more than $350 US. Going CrossFire again would be fine but I'd rather go with a single card this...
i'm trying to keep my monthly costs down and it's cheaper to colo 1 x 1U than 2 x 1U, 1 x 2U, etc.
pricewise a single 1U system for under $1,500 is going to work out better for me in the long-run, especially because shipping is expensive from my location
thanks PCTC2
right, hyper-threading isn't good for the app's performance. i was just pointing out the features that 5520 has that 5504 does not. if i go with 5520 i will most likely disable HT.
very much appreciated, jones377
now i'm just debating between E5504 and E5520 because single-threaded performance is very important and i'm concerned 2.0GHz won't cut it when the 32 slot servers are full, but E5520 increases my spending by $310. are the added benefits of E5520 (+250MHz CPU...
i'm trying to squeeze everything into a single 1U box to keep my colo expenses down
i'll be running 8-10 game servers (mostly srcds): the affinity of each large server (32 slots) will be set to a different core, the affinity of a couple smaller servers (20 slots + 10 slots) will be set to the...
i'm also considering SDD but i'm concerned about writes affecting overall performance. the only player writes i can think of are custom "sprays" (images) that appear in the game, which range in size but are never more than 120KB. a spray is uploaded to the server whenever a new player connects...
i'm now looking at a completely different setup, more along the lines of something like this:
1 x Supermicro 1U ATX case with 520W power supply
1 x ASUS Z8NA-D6C Dual LGA 1366 motherboard
2 x Intel E5504 Nehalem 2.0GHz LGA 1366 80W quad core CPU
3 x 2GB DDR3 1333 ECC Unbuffered memory
3 x 1GB...
geez i had it so backwards, i thought the AMD Opteron @ 1.9GHz performs almost as well as the Intel Xeon Harpertown @ 2.33GHz
the answer i was looking for, thank you
expandability isn't important, i'm only concerned about meeting my current needs
but the fact that the E5506 Nehalem 2.13GHz...
i'm going for a dual socket + quad core CPUs build dedicated entirely to SINGLE-THREADED game server software
everyone keeps recommending Nehalem over Harpertown so i guess i should just take the advice and do away with Harpertown already
this is what i know:
- a single core of Intel's Quad...
i think you're right about the hard drive, maybe i'll go with a couple 10k rpm drives instead. thanks for the suggestion
8-10 servers, max ~256 players total
yes of course colocating
thanks for the info and recommendation
i'm going to run multiple single-threaded game servers each on its own core (each core will be designated to a server)
this is exactly what other game server admins do and they report good results with Intel's quad core Xeon E5410 Harperton @ 2.33GHz
i'll have two quad core CPUs, which...
is it safe to say that 1 core of an AMD Opteron 2347 HE @ 1.9GHz would be able to host a lag-free game server that requires 1 core of an Intel Xeon E5410 @ 2.33GHz?
if hyper-threading is enabled and two game servers are each on their own thread on the same core, won't each server only be able to use 50% of the core?
that's how it was a few years ago when i ran this game server software with hyper-threading enabled
did hyper-threading change in a way...
i don't want to run the software across all cores (it's not possible anyway), i want to dedicate a whole core to each server via affinity
definitely TF2, Shattered Horizon, and unreleased NS2
but that's only 4 cores
in my past experience hyper-threading basically just limits the game servers to 50% of each core's processing power because the software isn't multi-threaded
each game server needs single-threaded ~2.33GHz dedicated to it
and 2 x Xeon E5410 is cheaper than 1 x Core...
i'm shopping for parts to build a box that will be entirely dedicated to hosting 32+ slot game servers on Windows Server 2003. i will NOT be overclocking and i don't care about brands
the minimal processing power i require is Intel's Xeon 2.33GHz (what's AMD's equivalent?)
i'd like to keep my...
in terms of server CPUs though, as in AMD's quad core Opterons
i'll be running 2 x quad core CPUs and i'm trying to figure out what AMD processor is equivalent to Intel's quad core Xeon E5410 because that's the minimal processing power i need
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