6860 Re-TIM the GPU? RAID Setup Q.

I figured I'd try and bundle two slightly unrelated questions into one thread.

First off, after seeing the guide on how to replace the CPU and seeing how much TIM was slopped onto it, it makes me want to redo the application on the GPU to get better cooling.

Anyone done this? Or have an opinion on it? Or any idea on how hard it would be to do / what would be involved.


And the RAID question is, once I get two drives installed in this thing. Will an option to enable RAID open up in the BIOS that isn't there with just one drive?

 

heres how its basically been going for people trying to get at the GPU because its on the underside of the mother board meaning a whole tear apart. http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=271448

and for your raid question yes when you put the second drive in there will that raid option .

oh and my GPU generally idles around 42 ish sometimes lower and max temps i think ive ever seen are like 71 so i personally dont think its worth the effort mainly cause if you dont get the paste right the first time Oh dear god what a huge cluster f that will be.

 

you laptop will have control set in in raid mode

also you need go into bios and configure you raid or use the mainboard raid software to mirror you disk


if do radio bios raid setup you most like lose you data


they two type raid install check mainboard manual some tell you how to convert to raid with out reinstall other don.nt

 

Quad, thanks. I was afraid of that. Depends on how much I got in me the day I rip it apart. I'm kinda figuring that since I'm pulling it apart to replace almost everything else I might as well go the full 9. Though for how much time it may take...

And I'm not too worried about a bad TIM application. Can't be too much different from the desktops I've been building for years.

Andy, I'm planning on doing RAID-0 which would be the other one I'd imagine (Striping) but will be using two brand new WD Caviar Black Edition drives as 320GB 7200RPM drives will be blazing fast.

And I plan on using my copy of Vista Biz from the MSDN. As the Gateway install of Vista Home Premium seems a bit wiggy.

 

Ya i had raid 0 in mine for about a week with 2 200gig 7200s and things were much snappier and some of the games i played most notably anything unreal engine related loaded quite abit faster . i decided to pull them and return them cause i saw the 320(7200s) are out and for about 62 bucks more a piece then what i paid for the 200s which for 120 more gigs per drive for 60 odd dollars seemed like the better deal down the road. the only thing holding me back at this point is the heat these things put out , the 200s i had in there ran so cool all the time it was amazing my 320 in my rig now can get warm to say the least so you will have to chime in after you get settled and fill them up and let me know how hot or not they are.

 

I plan on it, the drives do sound promising as the WD product literature say the use as much power as a 5400rpm drive. So I'm hoping that translates into cool running as yeah, the 320's the 6860's come with are kinda toasty.

 

You know, lots of people say that, but I really cant feel them making the case that much warmer. I have no verifiable proof, mind you, as once you RAID them, temp monitoring no longer works(well for me at least), which is really strange.

 

on another note, i got my other wd 320gb 5400 rpm drive in today! i'll post results and such after i get it installed/raided

 

Cool! Lemmie know how it goes.

 

the raid setup was easy as friggin pie. and taking my external drive from its original case to an e-sata supported case, the external now flies faster than it did before. (about twice as fast, actually) ill post the HD tune results as soon as i finish copying files from my external to my laptop.