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Water cooling Highpoint
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I have read a lot on the BP6 message board
regarding the Highpoint controller. Last night I had some time to waste so I
tried a couple of different BIOSes and various drivers under Windows 2000
server and ran the Sisoft Sandra benchmarks. I was surprised by the
results. Sandra expects about 8000 for UDMA33 and 13000 for UDMA66. As you can see I only tried a sketchy number of benchmarks: (All
done at 75Mhz fsb)
| Bios |
Driver |
20Gb |
45Gb |
| 1.23 |
1.28 |
8997 |
9224 |
| 1.25 |
1.23 |
not done |
15113 |
| 1.25 |
1.25 |
not done |
16475 |
| 1.28 |
1.25 |
14994 |
19778 |
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One of my drives has had the "accoustic
management" switched off, I believe it was the 45Gb, it is theoretically
noisier but it improves the drive performance, I can't hear the drives
anyway with the racket from the fans! It is somewhat mystifying that the
45Gb UDMA 100 drive performs so well despite being on a UDMA66
interface... I may be missing something fundamental somewhere, certainly my
drives haven't failed yet and I don't get data corruption, having said
that I have a feeling that my machine is not happy with the correct 66Mhz
FSB! Thank you to Tim for running the BP6 message board and the numerous
helpful contributors. |
