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I have very little experience with graphics card, So im unsure.

As temperatures rise while gaming, i notice on GPU tweak that my 7970 DCU2 Fans will kick up a bit. So far playing Guild Wars 2, my...

Hey man looks damn good. Love the glass side, and Red and black scheme is hot.

Tho one thing bro, you have the corsair cooler mounted sideways.. Just fix that and your set.

If you don't have other Ram but should ever wish to purchase, i highly recommend:

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226191

I'm Canadian hence the .ca ... If your in the...

Agreed with Arne Saknussemm.

Try removing 1 stick of Ram and use the first Dimm (you will be fine to boot with 4gb don't worry) and then run what ever it is that causing it to freeze.

If it...

Zka17,

Ya ill explain the case.

FANS::
The side facing the camera, has 2 x 120mm fans (bottom right). The big window, accommodates a 200mm Fan. (Optional from NZXT, is I can buy a side that...

lmao tell me about it. If i spend another dime the wife's probably gonna pawn my stereo equipment to buy herself more shoes... .. As if she doesn't have enough shoes already... :/

Zka17 Sick...

thanks HiVizMan. You would not believe how much space the Phantom takes up. I had to extend the table (its one of those pull em apart, add in the middle style) just so I can accommodate my friends...

@DaemonCantor

Got the Pics up!
Link:
http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?19250-Pictures-of-my-Build!-Finally!&p=132117#post132117

Feel free to comment guys!

So I promised I would post what my build looks like. So here I sit, eating strawberries cut up mixed with Activia, bringing you my blood,sweat, and pure Joy that is my Beast of a machine. Enjoy!
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@chrsplmr

Ive learned more in 1 month of working on this build and posting on this forum, than i have learned my whole life just fiddling around with computers.

I will post picks soon of my...

Oh hey thanks bud. I was silly to accuse this mobo of being at fault without doing deep research. I wanted to make clear i made the mistakes, not Asus.

Ill help where i can too! I have to say,...

HiVizMan i worked it out. I posted under the mobo threat and got alot of response and good suggestions. That forum i linked, the guy who posted is horridly wrong.

As it turns out, I will be a big...

@DaemonCantor

As it turns out, this Drive was used in raid before.... You called it... so i hit Ctl + f and deleted it. Oddly after deleting it, it still showed up in the Raid menu...

Anyways,...

@DaemonCantor


No it was ACHI before. This Mechanical already has windows on it, i installed all by its lonesome, in ACHI.

EUREKA!


Ok so Heres what ive Done!

I plugged my Western Digital Hard Drive into port SEVEN (the As media Drive) And the Optical Drive remains in Port 6. So now i can use my W/D Drive as...

@Myk SilentShadow


Ok so i did as you said. I plugged the optical into port 7, (as media) and the stand alone WD Caviar into port 6.
Now, Bios didnt detect it, and i cant find it in windows....

@DaemonCantor

Hey thanks for explaining that. But just to be clear, my OS is on the SSD Raid. The extra drive is for storage, its a mechanical. so in total there is 4 Drives here.

3 are solid...

Yes ive tried it. Thats why i am posting this.

Edit:

When you set the Controller for ports 1-4 into Raid, it will be default set ports 5/6 in Raid. When I try to change 5/6, im only given Raid...

So according to this post on Hard forum: http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1642564

you cant use Raid and Achi at the same time on CHV Formula board. the SB 950 wont allow it.

Well that's...

K so this is sorta linked to my other thread, but bear with me, i have been searching and searching and I found the most disappointing answer to why cant use achi + raid on this CHV board.
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Really? No one knows what to do here?

Ports 1-4 are controlled by 1 driver. Set to raid
Ports 5/6 only give me an option for "Raid or IDE" mode.

Anyone with experience of running Raid on the Crosshair 5 Board know what i have to Do to get my system to detect the HDD??

Zka17, thanks for reply.

I think that 7th one is the E-sata port, that I have plugged in the e-sata wire fro the tower into.

Someone from another forum posted this:

"those serial ports may belong to the third party chipset. the bios will only see the drives connected to the intel chipset. so you need to install the...

Yes if i switch back to achi the HDD will detect.

And I tried plugging the Optical Drive into port 4, and Windows wouldn't load. Also, mouse wouldn't work. Not sure if thats related.

Edit: My...