Recent content by willgr

ok, my two cents worth - not complete but feel free to ask me about any of this for further clarification: CPU and motherboard - anything between a 2.8 and 3.2 Pentium 4 with Northwood core and 800Mhz front side bus. Make this decision on price as performance on any will be enough and it may...

PATA and DMA Ultra Mode 5, so no problems there. I did look in more detail at the buffered read and write and they are still off by a considerable margin from the above numbers - 45 buffered read and 65 buffered write. Should the different benchmarks make that kind of difference? or am I still...

Thanks for the reply. Maybe I have a bad board. MBM 5 also shows my case temp at 165F in an Antec SLK 3700BQE but I'm looking into that. Do you remember your disk bench scores? In the latest version of Sandra 2004.8.9.131, it was 47 MB/s.

First off, I know this is a single channel board and not the best - but it was free with the P4 3.0Ghz 800Mhz FSB so it gets my test server up and running. My question is - can anyone here comment on the actual or perceived performance of the CD and hard drives? The install of Win XP seemed to...