AceCombat reporting in!!!

Today is a good day for me,so decided to do some hardware review.

Because it's quite late already,so i decided to make something easier and faster one,and it is: Southbridge RAID review!!!

well,i reviewed 3 chipset which is Intel ICH8R and ICH9R and nVidia MCP55P.

OS and Application:
Genuine Windows XP SP2
Simpli Software HDTach 3.0.1.0
for better result,i run each of them for 5 times,then i'll print screen teh best bench.

so,here we go,the first run:


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Intel ICH8R RAID 0 with Western Digital Raptor 10k RPM 74.3GB

Test rig:
Intel Q6600 GO @ 3.0GHz
Asus P5K-Deluxe
Crucial 10th Anniversary 2*1GB @ 800MHz 4-4-3-8
WD Raptor 74.3GB 8M RAID 0
Forsa nVidia 8800GTS 640MB

Here teh result



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Intel ICH9R RAID 0 with Western Digital Raptor 10k RPM 74.3GB

Test Rig:
Intel QX6700 @ 3.0GHz
Asus Maximus Formula
A-Data Vitesta Extreme 2*1GB 800MHz 4-4-4-12
WD Raptor 74.3GB 8M RAID 0
Asus 8800 Ultra

Here teh result of new southbridge chipset from intel




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nVidia NVIDIA MCP55P RAID 0 with Western Digital 10k RPM 74.3GB

Test Rig:
Intel E6600 @ 3.0GHz
Asus P5N32-E SLi Plus
Team Xtreem Grey 2*1GB 3-3-3-8
WD Raptor 74.3GB 8M RAID 0
Zotac 8800GT
Winfast 8800GT

well,first time i run nvidia stripe


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well,this can be said that is a useless review but it's a great information for those who doubt,"what's the different between ICH8R and ICH9R and how about if compare intel chipset to nvidia chipset?"

Anyway,Intel graph form "W' shape while nVidia form "----" shape.

hope this help u guys,enjoy reading!!!!

feel free to post ur comment here.

Thanks & Regards
AceCombat
Leader of Penang's Overclocker Club

from those chart Intel perform better then nvidia chipset, intel ICH8R just use bout 1% cpu power that very good....

Intel ICH8R vs ICH9 very lil gab performance... as usual nvidia need to improve their chipset...

is that a software raid or hardware based raid?

consider software raid,i didnt use any PCI RAID card.

I thought it should be considered hardware based since it involes the chipset ?

Would different rig setup make any difference to the end results? Shouldn't the rigs be as similar as possible e.g. 2 rigs are quad and one rig is using E6600.

Wah Ace, retire from the OC world now venturing into the reviewing world huh?

real hardware raid usually have onboard cache and also and XOR processor

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Added on November 9, 2007, 9:52 pmeven though nvidia has more consistence throughput, intel has higher average throughput abt 10% more...in addition to bursting more here and there to 140MBps peak

and surprisingly 0.8ms faster too on intel.. hmmm..

This post has been edited by jinaun: Nov 9 2007, 09:55 PM

why intel in "w"" shape while nvidia can make it "-" shape?

I think that the TS should use something more suitable like IPEAK SPT or IOMETER to really test the drive's ability to deliver on IO.

to test the drive's or the ich controllers?

ya sifu empire,
use that to test about what?
wish to learn that.

It tests both by using multiple loads and queues to simulate server loading, giving IOPS as the final figure. To see whether it's a controller limitation, just test the HDD across multiple controller and if the number is stable just move on to the controller.

Ipeak SPT can run under any program, as it sits in the OS's stack and just gives you the IOPS that a program generates, thereby you can run generally any program to benchmark the HDD, as Ipeak will just record it's IOPS.

try www.storagereview.com

download their IOmeter test file

then go to http://www.iometer.org/

download the W32 installer program and then execute the test.

I'll post some extras on it later.

will do review again like bro empire23 said.
thanks sifu
thread closed,once done,i open new thread.