My Rig seems slower than i had thought it would be any ideas, hard question i know Vista Ultimate 32 E6400 oc'd @ 3.6ghz 4gb corsair 6400 @ 667mhz Asus Striker Extreme 2x Raptor in Raid 0 3 x SATA Storage 700gb XFX 8800GTX 768mb

You appear to have the goods, but we have no idea how you have everything configured. Why all the HDD's? I won't get into a lecture about RAID-0, it's been covered MANY times before. Hopefully you understand the risks & shortcomings. Why is there no PSU supply listed? It's probably THE most important piece of hardware in a system, but it seems it's always the most overlooked. "And that's the fishing line, because Sharkboy said so!"

Ok i am removing the Raid-0 tonight hate it with a passion, im a very impatient person and the hard drives which are both raptor 10,000's should be succient enough on there own until i can manage a solid state drive. Jam the reason i left the power supply out is because as i was writing whats in the rig i realised i might have answered my own question. The powersupply is an enermax infini 720 i didnt build the system with the psu in it, i was running a much slower rig and this came up for a bargain price of £600 with a couple of 19" monitors but when i try and select my ram at 800mhz the whole screen pixelises so that in it self should have been a headsup about the power but heyit was late or infact i could be wrong. (When i looked into running 4gb in SLI i read that when all 4 slots are full that a)you have to downclock the memory and b) it would only show 3gb of it, however it shows 4gb ??? Vista Ultimate 32 E6400 oc'd @ 3.6ghz 4gb corsair 6400 @ 667mhz Asus Striker Extreme 2x Raptor in Raid 0 3 x SATA Storage 700gb XFX 8800GTX 768mb

Sorry about all the typing errors, i have so many hard drives because the 2 raptors are in raid and the 3x SATA total = 700gb 1x 300 2x 200gb one is for films and games one is for pictures and software one is for all my work stuff and my websites Vista Ultimate 32 E6400 oc'd @ 3.6ghz 4gb corsair 6400 @ 667mhz Asus Striker Extreme 2x Raptor in Raid 0 3 x SATA Storage 700gb XFX 8800GTX 768mb

hi just a thought with all those drives running is there some throughput issue there (other than load on psu) causing a bottleneck? eg data throughput ? and is it a software raid? Also you have a top mobo paired with a mediocre cpu (oc 'd) but it sounds like your pc is used heavily so maybe a cpu with a bigger cache would be advisable.

Rig is Constantly on and very heavily used for web design, pc repairs and maintenance via a vpn connection/teamviewer and for gaming :) You would never believe i had a wife 3 kids and a 60 hour a week job lol... The Raid is done via the motherboard and throughput issue, i would imagine not as the only drive i have my program files on is my OS Drive C: the others are merely reference drives.. I understand im lacking in processor power but thought that the OC would compensate,not taking into consideration cache but just dont want to fall into the trap of buying a bigger processor for no apparent reason..... Reformatting tonight and tidying up my rig, putting XP 64 on and will try without the other drives and also will remove raid (which is causing me more trouble than its worth, dont recommend it at all). Just to add a note to the cooling of my rig i have a Big Typhoon CPU Cooler, 4x 4" fans 2x 3" Fans and front vents (Armour LCS Case) Oh and im running Dual Screens soon to be tri Vista Ultimate 32 E6400 oc'd @ 3.6ghz 4gb corsair 6400 @ 667mhz Asus Striker Extreme 2x Raptor in Raid 0 3 x SATA Storage 700gb XFX 8800GTX 768mb

If you're running the CPU at 400MHz frequency & the RAM at 333MHz, you're obviously losing performance right there. The CPU:DRAM ratio should be 1:1 & since you have DDR2-800, you *should* be able to pull it off. I'm guessing that the BIOS isn't configured correctly. "And that's the fishing line, because Sharkboy said so!"