The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Ocz whitebook drivers, raid setup and SO performance

    Discussion in 'Other Manufacturers' started by bygaro, Sep 22, 2008.

  1. bygaro

    bygaro Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    6
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Hi, i just ordered few days ago a OCZ whitebook from a European seller, hope this to be a good choice becouse i was reading this forum and people says many different things about it. I really like it talking about design and performance. Hope to not make a mistake getting a laptop with ati GPU.

    This will be my first laptop, and my first computer i will install vista 64 on it... due to this i have a lot of doubts.

    This could be a threat where all the people could look for last drivers, put his whitebook benchmarks and little tricks to improve the SO.

    I was looking around mainly to improve the performance of the SO that i will install and i find some nice advices. I will post it as fast as i have time for it.

    This will be my laptop:

    · Display: 17" WUXGA Display (FullHD, 1920x1200)
    · 2x ATI HD3870 (Crossfire)
    · Intel Centrino 2: T9400 (2,53 GHz, 6MB L2 Cache, 35W)
    · OCZ - DDR3: 4GB OCZ (1066 MHz/2x2GB)
    · 250GB (2.5", SATA, 5400rpm)
    · 250GB (2.5", SATA, 5400rpm)
    · eSATA:
    · 1 HDMI Port
    · High Definition Dolby Surround system
    · CD/DVD±RW (8x Speed, DoubleLayer)
    · Webcam 2,0 Megapix. CYBER SYSTEM (CX17)
    · Windows vista ultimate 64b

    Mainly i would like to know about 4 points:

    1) Drivers for 2xati HD3870... what would be the best choice?...
    2) RAID 0 ON hard drivers... could you explain me how i would have to install the hard drivers like that?
    3) Improve SO windows vista...
    4) Talking about overclocking what we could try on and what we couldn´t...

    Sorry for my english hope you to undertand it ;)
     
    bygaro, Sep 22, 2008
    #1
  2. ichime

    ichime Notebook Elder

    Reputations:
    2,420
    Messages:
    2,676
    Likes Received:
    3
    Trophy Points:
    56
    1) Probably the one Mark @ KillerNotebooks is using or any optimized ones that may come out in the future

    2) Insert two blank Hard Drives (preferably of the same manufacturer and capacity) into the notebook --> Boot up to BIOS --> Enable RAID and AHCI --> Reboot --> when you see Intel Matrix storage screen, press Ctrl + I (gotta be quick) --> enter info (it's self-explanatory; you'll have to select to use RAID0 or RAID1, name your array, and set stripe size -> 128kb is recommended) --> Exit --> Install OS (Vista).

    3) ?

    4) If you have an Extreme CPU, you can overclock the CPU via the BIOS. If you don't have an Extreme CPU, then maybe use SetFSB (until there is support for the Arima notebook). As for GPU overclocking, should be pretty straightforward with ATitool or other programs. Just be sure not to over do it.
     
    ichime, Sep 22, 2008
    #2
  3. phoduma

    phoduma Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    1
    Messages:
    250
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    i order one too from xoticpc, ships this week!
     
    phoduma, Sep 22, 2008
    #3
  4. Shane@DARK.

    Shane@DARK. Company Representative

    Reputations:
    768
    Messages:
    710
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Hopefully ships this week :)
     
    Shane@DARK., Sep 22, 2008
    #4