HIS Radeon 5870 performance problems

[Ryx]

I thought you might be interested to know I have sorted the problem - as I suspected in the end, the Highpoint RocketRAID 2320 was killing the performance by throttling the north bridge.

I've replaced the 2320 with a RocketRAID 3560 (upgraded to 2gig of onboard RAM) and it is now flying. The RAID5 array is reporting a transfer rate in excess of 500mb/sec in HD Tune, yet there is 0% CPU usage (it was around 15% with the 2320).

This has freed up the 5870 which is now excelling - I just got 23000+ in 3dmark without configuring it properly and on the old drivers. All of the previous problems are now corrected. So it would seem that you can have a media server and gaming machine in one...you just need to spend a lot on the RAID card

For those that are interested the spec of the system is now:

Asus P6T7 WS Supercomputer
Intel i7 950 @ 3.07 ghz
6gb of RAM
350gb Raptor – boot drive
2tb Seagate- network drive
9 x Seagate 1.5tb drives in a RAID 5 array via a Highpoint RocketRAID 3560 (2gb of onboard RAM)
Pioneer 5090 Plasma display @ 1920 x 1080
Corsair HX450W running RAID array and a 1000w supply feeding the rest

 

[Biffa]

TTIUWP

 

[kylew]

I thought you might be interested to know I have sorted the problem - as I suspected in the end, the Highpoint RocketRAID 2320 was killing the performance by throttling the north bridge.

I've replaced the 2320 with a RocketRAID 3560 (upgraded to 2gig of onboard RAM) and it is now flying. The RAID5 array is reporting a transfer rate in excess of 500mb/sec in HD Tune, yet there is 0% CPU usage (it was around 15% with the 2320).

This has freed up the 5870 which is now excelling - I just got 23000+ in 3dmark without configuring it properly and on the old drivers. All of the previous problems are now corrected. So it would seem that you can have a media server and gaming machine in one...you just need to spend a lot on the RAID card

For those that are interested the spec of the system is now:

Asus P6T7 WS Supercomputer
Intel i7 950 @ 3.07 ghz
6gb of RAM
350gb Raptor – boot drive
2tb Seagate- network drive
9 x Seagate 1.5tb drives in a RAID 5 array via a Highpoint RocketRAID 3560 (2gb of onboard RAM)
Pioneer 5090 Plasma display @ 1920 x 1080
Corsair HX450W running RAID array and a 1000w supply feeding the rest

You're bloody crazy! Those rocketRAID cards are £600!

Surely you would have been better off just building a cheap core2 based PC and using that as a media server?

 

[JediFragger]

For those that are interested the spec of the system is now:

Asus P6T7 WS Supercomputer
Intel i7 950 @ 3.07 ghz
6gb of RAM
350gb Raptor – boot drive
2tb Seagate- network drive
9 x Seagate 1.5tb drives in a RAID 5 array via a Highpoint RocketRAID 3560 (2gb of onboard RAM)
Pioneer 5090 Plasma display @ 1920 x 1080
Corsair HX450W running RAID array and a 1000w supply feeding the rest

Jesus dude, that is some system. Porn stash must be h0000000000ge

Props to ya

 

[Jakus]

TTIUWP

The Digital Hasselblad's obviously away for service

 

[ETNiES]

Coming in the year 2050 the all new Western Digital 1 Yottabyte SSD!