Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: MANDOBLE on June 12, 2002, 01:22:37 PM
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Any info about that?
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Heh, wish I could tell you....my Soyo dragon ultra is sitting in Fort Worth (I misread the tracking the other night and thought it was at the ramp in San Antonio)....soon....veeeeery soon :D
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Mine is actually assembled and running continuous stress tests in the shop, one day more and ...
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Soyo mombo installed and fully operational in "FAST" mode with the next components and configuration:
Aopen HQ08 case
AMD Athlon XP2100 (166x10.5) + CoolerMaster Skived disipator (case open 43C max, case closed 55C max).
80GB IBM ATA133 HD
2x256 Kingston PC2700 DDR333
AGP -> GF3 Ti500
PCI1 -> empty.
PCI2 -> ADSL.
PCI3 -> empty.
PCI4 -> CL Audigy (MB sound disabled)
PCI5 -> empty.
USB bay installed (USB 2.0 working right)
Internal RealTek LAN enabled.
RAID disabled.
W98SE+latest VIA 4in1 drivers
Saitek X36 connected to 1.0 USB
TM FLCS/TQS/CHPro Pedals connected to Audigy gameport.
(Note: No card reader was present in the USB 1.0/2.0 5.25" bay)
The system is, up to the moment, solid like a rock, very stable and extremely fast (6 seconds from boot to windows loaded).
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Mandoble, got mine setup last night!
Using almost the same stuff as you, except:
two 512MB sticks of OCZ technologies CAS 2 333mhz DDR memory
I am using the built-in CL 6 channel sound (sounds as good as the Audigy I think).
Realtek lan, enabled and working fine.
High Point RAID (two 40gb Maxtor ATA133 drives striped with RAID 0).
GF4 TI4600 (overclocked)
CPU is as yet not overclocked, but gonna tweak it today
I upgraded the NVIDIA drivers to the 29.42's...very stable and got some frame rate increase in AH.
Love the USB SIGMA box...plug my CH gear in the front of the case now instead of the back (and still have USB ports to use in the back). No card reader either (that only comes with the Dragon Ultra Platinum mobo .... and costs $40 more).
Man this thing absolutely flies!!!
Dang, had to edit....
Your CPU temp is pretty high. I have an Arkua 7228 heat sink (a licensed copy of the Thermoengine) and I am running at 34-36C with a closed case.....and I only have 2 small case fans in it right now. I can get 30-32C with the case open.
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Actually I have no case fans, the temp posted is not normal, it is just the highest I've noticed. Thinking on placing one case fan in next week, I'll also try the new nvidia drivers, but for now I cant imagina how to get more FPS with AH.
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Warp, what are your settings for the memory in bios?
Ah, and yesterday a new bios revision was posted ;)