CPU gets too hot!

[ctjoyce]

You don't gain any FPS in gaming with a raptor, so you arn't going to lose any by dumping your raptor. The only thing a raptor will make better is load times.

Cheers
Cameron

[yf]

so, whats your sugeston?

[ctjoyce]

Well I would do three raptors in RAID 0 and then the 500 seperate.

Cheers
Cameron

[yf]

well i have a GOHST IMAGE ftom my start up drive, (wich is the raid array) can I just take out 1 raptor and ghost it on the new drive? (taking away 1 raptor, will kill the aray, so i will have to reformat the new array)

till now if ever mass up my pc I used ghost to restore, nd within 25 minuts i'm back to work like never haad a problem...I keap my desctop clean (I try to) and the "my documents) is set to use the fifth hard drive. were the ghost file is.

thanks yf

[yf]

You know, i went to silverstone site, and I looked at the fans and, i think the raptor should have a exhust fan not a intake??? and bring the heat all tha way to the top?!

can i uninstall it and reverse the fans by hand?

Top 2 x 120mm exhaust fan, 1200rpm, 21dBA
Rear 2 x 92mm intake fans, 2100rpm, 23dBA
Bottom 2 x 120mm intake fan, 1200rpm, 21dBA

[ctjoyce]

Well you can change the fans around as much as you like, but you do know that the drives go in the bottom of the case in a rack right, not in the main section with the motherboard.

And its better to force air over the drives insted of trying to exaust the air out.

As for your dirve situation, here is what I would do.

1st: Back up all files, music, pictures, etc onto an extirnal hard drive or DVDs. I highly recomend NOT backing these up onto an internal drive, as internals fail. Its good to have a backup on a solid state.

2nd: Set up your new RAID. I would suggest 3x Raptors in a RAID 0 and your 500GB as a stand alone. The raptors are for the OS / gaming, and the 500GB for storage. Music movies etc.

Pulling two raptors will cool your rig down quite a lot, and your preformance wouln't be affected any.

Cheers
Cameron

[yf]

im not pulling 2, If I stay with 3 for the raid, I will only pull out 1.

[ctjoyce]

Well in that case just go with 4. Two in each bay.

Cheers
Cameron

[congo]

I still like my idea better.....

[justpassingthrough]

[congo]