FWIW, I don't build PCs using Asus mobos. I find I get a better bang for you buck with Gigabyte. I've built two systems using the GA-k8n Ultra-9 (x64 and Suse 10.0)
If you are using onboard raid (often known as FRAID for fake raid), it won't be blazing. I use the onboard raid myself as I really can't justify the price of a 3ware card. You can tell a fake raid b the necessity of OS specific drivers. These drivers are doing the busy work (XOR) of a real raid card. I'm using RAID 10 with 4 drives, which might have some speed advantage, but I doubt it with FRAID. Perhaps the dual core helps. I haven't benchmarked it. James L. Sims wrote: > Charles, > > After I went through a miserable seven hours fighting a blue screen > error on startup after the first attempt at installing new chipset > drivers, I finally managed to get the new drivers installed and the > reader seems to be functioning properly. > > I have responded to your questions below. > > Incidentally, here is a description of the machine I'm running. > > OS: Windows XP with SP 2 (32-bit) > > Power Supply: Thermaltake (480 watt) > Mainboard: ASUS Model A8N-E; with Socket 939 (AMD-64 Dual core CPU) > RAM: 2gig 800mh FSB > IDE devices: 2 > Raid devices: 2 (Raid0, mirrored- SLOW!) > Used USB resources: card reader (2 USB2 ports); printer (USB2 port); > scanner (USB port); trackball (USB port); scanner (1394 port); UPS > monitor (serial port). > > Thanks for all the help. Updating the drivers was good advice although > I am not impressed with ASUS web support. After all the great reviews > about ASUS, that was a letdown. > > Thanks again - just one of the may aspects I like about this group. > > Jim > > > > Charles Knox wrote: > > >>The 7-in-1 card reader may be marginal in its power requirement, and some >>motherboards are less robust than others in this department (some can >>comfortably handle up to 800mA, some struggle with 500, some even vary from >>one port to another) -- I suppose you've tried it in other ports? >> >> > > The reader has its own power connection from the power supply - I have a > very good power supply. I only have four internal USB terminals on the > MB and I have tried those four - that's in addition to the six ports on > the back of the machine which I haven't tried.. > > >>How does it perform with a flash drive? >> >> > > Any virtual drive will work when plugged into one of the spare USB ports > on the back of the machine. When the computer can't see the reader, > nothing will wake it up. > > >>For best results with USB you do need to be running XP SP1 or SP2 -- >>there's a patch on M$ updates somewhere for the original verion of XP. >> >> > > I have SP2 installed on the machine. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body