Wheeeeee…
8.30pm-1am: Fixing up the hardware.
1-1.40am: Troubleshooting floppy drive, turned out the new floppy cable was faulty. Troubleshooting RAID installation. Turned out the floppy disk that came with the motherboard was buggy.
1.40-2.30am: Tried sleeping but can’t. Then idea struck me to copy the driver files from the CD into the floppy.
2.30-4.30am: Installing the rest of my harddisk drives, update Windows, installing usual software and configuring Windows settings. You can only have the 2 SATA Raid 0 disks connected if you want to install an operating system on that Raid 0 array.
4.30-7am: Sleeeeeep…
7-7.40am: Before I left for work, I tried playing Lineage2, using a friend’s game account, on the North American servers. It was wonderful. Finally am I able to experience smooth, high quality gaming. There’s still some choppiness in some areas but I have yet to install DirectX 9.0b so that could be the cause.
I managed to buy a CG stepping, ClawHammer core version of the Athlon64. CG stepping, from what I know, means better overclocking results and performance. ClawHammer means it’s the one with 2GHz core speed, 1024KB L2 cache. The other NewCastle core has 2.2GHz core speed but only 512KB L2 cache.
2 sticks of PC3200 CAS2.5 Corsair 512MB rams.
2 Western Digital 10,000RPM, 8MB cache, 36GB Raptor harddisks Stripe Raided. It simply means combining both harddisks into one, double the storage, double the read/write speeds of 1 Raptor. Because of this, WindowsXP Professional installed in only 10 minutes.
