Originally Posted by BUFF It's about 735Mb/s which is 91MB/s - even a Raptor won't do that for continuous transfer & most other HDDs will be ~50-60MB/s.
daft question - assuming that you have PCI-E Gigabit LAN & a Gigabit switch, how does teaming help you as the switch surely is the limiting factor i.e. you can't get 2 pints into a 1 pint glass?
91MB/s on a good day? PCI-E GbE's get about 80% throughput and PCI 60-65% iirc. But yes, even the fastest hard drives out now only offer ~80MB/s max writes but over 100 in read now (on a good day when the moons are aligned)
I've never really thought about the Gigabit switch before!! Good point! :o Now I need to find one to play.
EDIT: Apparently Teaming is **** and makes no difference, hardly a surprise. But being the elitist I am I always want PCI-E if poss :D
Originally Posted by Bindibadgi 91MB/s on a good day? PCI-E GbE's get about 80% throughput and PCI 60-65% iirc. But yes, even the fastest hard drives out now only offer ~80MB/s max writes but over 100 in read now (on a good day when the moons are aligned)
Just going by the bandwidth test in reviews by the other usual websites (Anandtech, [H]ardOCP, TomsHardware etc.)
1 other thing is that in the same reviews abit's implementation of the PCI LAN controller always comes out near the top in terms of CPU utilisation, often beating PCI-E solutions.
PCI/PCI-E LAN is definitely a design decision brought on by the limited no. of PCI-E lanes & both have their pros & cons - it's good to have the choice of slot configurations available though.
Originally Posted by marscay they way the bios has matured on the maximus formula just makes it the better board than the ix38 at this point.
.01 vdrop even through high clocks under a quad.
personally i think strong old school pwm beats digital hands down.
I agree the formula certain seems better now it has a decent BIOS - I've still got to test it mind you (need to find more hours in the day :()
I can't really agree about digital versus analogue considering the space saving on board and if you really know your digital bits inside out like DFI or Abit to some degree you can do a LOT with less. Old school requires you to have a combination of two setups for high and low load efficiency which takes up a lot of board space.
Originally Posted by marscay they way the bios has matured on the maximus formula just makes it the better board than the ix38 at this point.
but it's been out considerably longer so the BIOS should be better.
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.01 vdrop even through high clocks under a quad.
On XS people are saying 0.03V at 4GHZ on a quad with the IX38 so I still think that something isn't right with the Bit-tech test be it BIOS version or whatever.
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personally i think strong old school pwm beats digital hands down.
Oskar Wu doesn't agree - the drawbacks that he sees are price & availability not performance.
they way the bios has matured on the maximus formula just makes it the better board than the ix38 at this point.
Well It's been out 2 months there'd be something extremely wrong if it hadn't
improved.
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I can't really agree about digital versus analogue considering the space saving on board and if you really know your digital bits inside out like DFI or Abit to some degree you can do a LOT with less.
Totally agree.
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goddammit why cant there be perfect board
Cos you don't get perfect boards:) especially from launch.
It ain't bad , the poor package & omissions, take the shine off something keenly anticipated after the success of the original Quad GT & the IP35-Pro.
There's not much wrong with:-
7) Prime Stable 12Hr 9x400 Vcore =1.4135v
11) 8x450 21Hrs Prime Stable
13) 8x465 15Hr Prime Stable
On an early bios
On XS people are saying 0.03V at 4GHZ on a quad with the IX38 so I still think that something isn't right with the Bit-tech test be it BIOS version or whatever.
What are they using to read the vCore? :? maybe it's software interpretation difference.
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91MB/s on a good day? PCI-E GbE's get about 80% throughput and PCI 60-65% iirc. But yes, even the fastest hard drives out now only offer ~80MB/s max writes but over 100 in read now (on a good day when the moons are aligned)
I've never really thought about the Gigabit switch before!! Good point! :o Now I need to find one to play.
EDIT: Apparently Teaming is **** and makes no difference, hardly a surprise. But being the elitist I am I always want PCI-E if poss :D
1 other thing is that in the same reviews abit's implementation of the PCI LAN controller always comes out near the top in terms of CPU utilisation, often beating PCI-E solutions.
PCI/PCI-E LAN is definitely a design decision brought on by the limited no. of PCI-E lanes & both have their pros & cons - it's good to have the choice of slot configurations available though.
.01 vdrop even through high clocks under a quad.
personally i think strong old school pwm beats digital hands down.
I agree the formula certain seems better now it has a decent BIOS - I've still got to test it mind you (need to find more hours in the day :()
I can't really agree about digital versus analogue considering the space saving on board and if you really know your digital bits inside out like DFI or Abit to some degree you can do a LOT with less. Old school requires you to have a combination of two setups for high and low load efficiency which takes up a lot of board space.
improved.
It ain't bad , the poor package & omissions, take the shine off something keenly anticipated after the success of the original Quad GT & the IP35-Pro.
There's not much wrong with:-
7) Prime Stable 12Hr 9x400 Vcore =1.4135v
11) 8x450 21Hrs Prime Stable
13) 8x465 15Hr Prime Stable
On an early bios
7,11,13 from:-
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What are they using to read the vCore? :? maybe it's software interpretation difference.
MUltimeter Measurments
http://www.eclipsecomputers.com/product.aspx?code=MBA-IX38QGT