New computer Build up and running, with some kinks

[whitey12785]

Asus P4P800-X mother board
prescott 3.0E G1 HT pentium 4
2 gigs of pc2-3200 memory (2x1g)
2 western digital 160 gb 3.0gb/s (im gonna RAID 0 these) S-ATA
6800 geforce AGP 8x video card
420 W PSA
This case - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6811156135
This heatsink w/ 2 60mm fans attached- http://www.pcalchemy.com/product_info.p ... cpu-cooler


Well I thought I would give you guys an update on my system build that has taken the better part of 2 days.

After all the issues and problems I had which I won't mention unless asked or anyone cares, its a long one, I got it up and running.

I've got my memory stepping set to 3 4 4 8, which if I set it any other way than this my whole system just freezes a few minutes after startup or during heavy load.

-The proccessor has been overclocked from 3.0 to 3.6. (my CPU temp never gets above 47 C)

- my system will freeze shortly after entering windows if I don't set the AGP/PCI frequency to the middle range option, I have no Idea why.

- Also I will be defragmenting my hard drive and pushing all of my files toward the front of the drive to get ready for a shrink query max and shrink command.
After this I plan to make the biggest partition possible and use "dynamic disks" to set up a RAID 0 partition between the two and use this for all my gaming.
I would like to just make the entire disk RAID 0 and then install windows again but I can't seem to figure out how to do that without having XP installed.

- One last thing, my computer seems to be finding a "ghost" pci Modem. The only thing I've got in the PCI slots is a soundblaster Audigy card. After some research online others have had this problem but nobody can find a sufficient fix that doesn't invlove removing the sound card.

If anyone has any advice on setting up my RAID or whats up with my "ghost" modem I would appreciate some wisdom, thanks fellas.

-Aaron

[Zertz]

Any reason you chose this over a Core 2 based build?

[maj0r_pawnage]

maybe he is using old parts for a new build :p

[ibleet]

Any reason you chose this over a Core 2 based build?

Deja Vu ----> http://forums.legitreviews.com/about15111.html

[whitey12785]

Major is exactly right,

I'm using old parts for a new build and I'm actually very happy with it. If you had felt the pain of my old rig you would understand the blissful difference.

It seems like I've figured out all my problems after I got off work today. I reformatted both 160gig drives and allocated a 8gb partition for windows. Then used the remaining space on both for a 282 GB Raid 0 array.

To quote some of the admins-

Im sorted.

Anyone know a good benchmarking software?

Thanks guys,

-Aaron

[ibleet]

Anyone know a good benchmarking software?

-Aaron

I use 3DMark06, Lightsmark 2007, Super Pi, SiSoft Sandra. Try HERE for downloads.

[whitey12785]

Yeah I will do that right now thanks ibleet, I'll even post the results after I'm done.



-Aaron

[Zertz]

I'm using old parts for a new build and I'm actually very happy with it. If you had felt the pain of my old rig you would understand the blissful difference.

If it works for you that's cool

I was just worried you had just bought that hardware brand new.