I just ordered the MRN for 89$ shipped from da egg for a clients' build so I'll LYK how it does. Picked up a 120gb 8mb cache Hitachi deathstar for myself too and this thing is definitely faster than my WD 8mb cache 80gb :Q It's substantially quieter and it was only 116$ and I don't expect reliability to be an issue either since it's made in Taiwan.
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Yeah I am curious how the MRNs do. I replaced my WD 80gb 8mb with a Maxtor 80gb 8mb and it is about 15% faster
according to the benchmarks. I am quite happy with it other than the fact that it only has a year warranty.
My WD now resides in my secondary machine which may get my first FRN but I am not sure yet since the resale value
of my A7V333 is not too good and it really is a good motherboard. I can sell the Soltek for what I paid for it since the demand is so good and also because I can guarantee a certain amount of speed too.
Well I now know for sure that it was indeed my motherboard holding me back from hitting anything over 200fsb because
I can run it at 214fsb. The PC2700 hits its ceiling at this point and the Athlon 2100+ hits its ceiling at 2469mhz.....this
is very interesting because this CPU could never hit this high on the other board no matter how low I set the multiplier.
I am sure this board could reach much higher FSBs but I need better ram (I still have not purchased any more since returning my Mushkin).
The real star here is the Micron PC2700, I cannot believe it runs so well at these settings.. the bottleneck with these
settings is the Athlon 2100+ ...if I had better cooling and more voltage to it could be maintained though...
214fsb