Waco Posted April 15, 2012 Posted April 15, 2012 Aside from that eye-gougingly bad color scheme that looks like an awesome board! EDIT: Also - have you tried using the ASUS caching? Is it even close to the performance of Intel SRT? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikoDG Posted April 15, 2012 Posted April 15, 2012 Just because it doesn't have a window, doesn't mean that the case is cheap. Some people just don't want a window on their case. The Cosmos II doesn't have a window, and I dare anyone to call that cheap PS: @ Waco, I'm running a 120GB Vertex 3 as a cache for my 2TB Western Digital Caviar Black on my Sabertooth X79 and it is gorgeous! I haven't done any benches but if I start playing a game you can definitely see it in loading, the first couple loads on a new game take a while since it hasn't cached yet, but after that the load time gets cut down to maybe 1/10th. There are some very big differences as well, for instance Intel SRT limits at 60GB for your cache if I recall correctly, but you have the option to have to cache work with a Raid array of mechanical drives. While the ASUS caching has no limit on the size of the cache, but it can only cache for a single mechanical drive so that limits you to 2TB since you can't Raid it. Personally I'd like to be able to hook up a minimum of three HDD's with one SSD. Having three 2TB Caviar Blacks in Raid 5 would be great. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccokeman Posted April 16, 2012 Posted April 16, 2012 Aside from that eye-gougingly bad color scheme that looks like an awesome board! EDIT: Also - have you tried using the ASUS caching? Is it even close to the performance of Intel SRT? Next project Got some caching drives and a PCIe caching solution I'll be looking at. It also does not require a raid array setup like IRST so in that respect Its better. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waco Posted April 16, 2012 Posted April 16, 2012 Sweet! I'm definitely interested in the differences between the Intel implementation and the ASUS version. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikoDG Posted April 16, 2012 Posted April 16, 2012 Sweet! I'm definitely interested in the differences between the Intel implementation and the ASUS version. Probably the nicest thing about it is the ease of setting it up. There's two SATA III ports on the motherboard dedicated to it, you plug your SSD into one, your HDD into the other then all just have to do is click a button to activate in Windows. Then if you want to take it out all you have to do is hit the button again. There's no fooling around in BIOS or anything like that. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waco Posted April 16, 2012 Posted April 16, 2012 Probably the nicest thing about it is the ease of setting it up. There's two SATA III ports on the motherboard dedicated to it, you plug your SSD into one, your HDD into the other then all just have to do is click a button to activate in Windows. Then if you want to take it out all you have to do is hit the button again. There's no fooling around in BIOS or anything like that. That's all I had to do with the Intel SRT too. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
d6bmg Posted April 16, 2012 Posted April 16, 2012 Color fail in that board. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikoDG Posted April 16, 2012 Posted April 16, 2012 That's all I had to do with the Intel SRT too. Oh, well now I know... And knowing is half the battle! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
captainfish Posted June 2, 2012 Posted June 2, 2012 From the article: Intel-controlled SATA 6Gb/s that support RAID 0, 1, 5, 10. Hello, I do not understand. How can you have anything larger than RAID 1, from 2 ports? From looking at the I/O panel, the left two white SATA ports are Marvel. The middle blue are Intel Sata3. The right two white SATA ports are said to also be Intel but Sata6. But, there are only 2 ports. Is the RAID then from the Intel blue ports since there are more than 2 of those? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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