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paulpicks21 said:
Ok so I have a new motherboard being delivered tomorrow as the current one is very cheap.

I know how to enable AHCI in windows now.

Apart from that , where is the best place to plug the SSD on the new mobo?

And I keep hearing about RAID , is this something I need to know about that will benefit the SSD?

Heres the ports on the new mobo -

5 xSATA 3 Gb/s ports
Intel® Matrix Storage Technology Support RAID 0,1,5,10
JMicron® JMB361 SATA & PATA controllers:
1 x Ultra DMA 133 / 100 / 66 for up to 2 PATA devices
1 x External SATA 3Gb/s port (SATA On-the-Go)
Silicon Image Sil5723 (Drive Xpert technology):
2 x SATA 3Gb/s ports

Thanks for the help guys

Paul.
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I have seen some issues resulting from the OS HDD/SSD not being plugged into SATA 3 Gb/s port0, the first port.
It use to make a difference but, with newer motherboards it shouldn't matter.
I still use port0 for my OS SSD.

Use the standard motherboard controller, not the JMicron.

Agree with whs RAID is a lot of work for what you get. One SSD should be fast enough, two SSDs are more expensive for the noticeable performance.
It depends on what your doing. Normal usage I would go with one.

Before you install Win7, change your BIOS setting to AHCI. Then you won't have to do it afterwards.
 
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+1. A single SSD is all you really need as it is the access time which is important and more doesn't equal quicker access.
 

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Agree that Single SSD is almost always the best route to go. RAID really bumps those benchmarks of raw throughput...but unless you are using your SSD drives for storage then it's kinda a moot point. It's the microsecond access times that are the key factor as said above and that is why running an SSD is such a great performance gain when you upgrade to one.
 

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Ok thanks for all the replies to that one guys , appreciate it :cool:
 

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As far as RAID 0 goes, with software RAID you will get diminishing returns after more than 3 drives are added to the array. With 4 drives you need a PCI-e RAID controller to get better numbers.

I've seen the tests and real world performance does get better as you add more drives. The PC mark Vantage results prove this beyond any shadow of a doubt. The downside is that with each added drive you increase the risk of data loss. Not to mention that trim won't work if you are using RAID.
 
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Well , new motherboard installed and AHCI enabled.

It has definatly made a difference check out the before and after shots below.

And also the WEI score has gone from 7.3 to 7.5

Sadly I have a new problem now though. Before I had the cpu clocked to 3.1ghz , totally stable ran for months like this.
With the new mobo I cannot seem to overclock it past 2.6ghz and even then its causing the pc to power down randomly which is not good so its back to stock for now.
 

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paulpicks21 said:
...Sadly I have a new problem now though. Before I had the cpu clocked to 3.1ghz , totally stable ran for months like this.
With the new mobo I cannot seem to overclock it past 2.6ghz and even then its causing the pc to power down randomly which is not good so its back to stock for now.
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Tried any voltage tweaks?
 

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This before and after comparison of post 726 is really interesting. It looks like there was an improvement with AHCI - but for real life nothing has really changed. Let me explain: Since I assume that this is the OS disk, there are 2 things that count for the speed:

a) Access time
b) 4K reads

However, as you can see, with or without AHCI you get the same numbers. And that is why people are not really seeing a difference in real life.
It may be interesting to get all excited about the other numbers - and if that were a data disk it may have an impact - but for an OS disk all the other numbers are really irrelevant.
 

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Whats the difference between 4K and 4k-64Thrd? Cause it looks like the 4K-64Thrd reads went up quite a bit.
 

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Yeah I was wandering that wakeboardr116.

Looks like they went up 4 fold!
 

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Would have to look a the code to get really specific but I was assuming that that means that there were 64 threads launched all reading 4k blocks at the same time and the total throughput of all threads combined.

At any time your Windows and programs can be running 100, 200 300 or more threads at once with quite a few of them doing File IO.

It appears that the standard IDE drivers only allow a single thread to access to the drive at a time whereas you can get several more threads asking for data at the same time in AHCI mode which probably handles Windows overlapping IO modes MUCH better.

This probably helps with program launches, boot time and single specialized prgrams that use multithreading properly and do heavy disk IO.
 

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In the 4K test, the speed of random read/writes is measured. The 4-64K test is similar but read/writes are distributed over 64 threads. It is designed to show the difference between IDE and AHCI modes.

Edit: fseal was faster - lol
 

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paulpicks21 said:
Well , new motherboard installed and AHCI enabled.

It has definatly made a difference check out the before and after shots below.

And also the WEI score has gone from 7.3 to 7.5

Sadly I have a new problem now though. Before I had the cpu clocked to 3.1ghz , totally stable ran for months like this.
With the new mobo I cannot seem to overclock it past 2.6ghz and even then its causing the pc to power down randomly which is not good so its back to stock for now.
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Looks much better.

What is the new motherboard?
Is it in your system specs or is that the old one?
 

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Sorry Dave , I forgot to update my system spec last night.

Done now.

Its an Asus P5QD Turbo btw.


Cheers

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What are the temps?

Did you run Prime95 or equivalent stability test?

Different motherboards will sometimes not overclock the same.

Could be due to the P45 / ICH10R chipset or other settings in the new BIOS.

Whats the VCore running at?
 
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Hi Dave ,

The temps look just like before , I always keep an eye on my temps no matter what just of of interest more than anything. Didn't go above 50 on any core.

Didn't really see the point in running prime95 when I know its not stable for more than a few mins anyway lol.

It appears that I cannot seem to overclock at all now , as the system had starting rebooting for no reason just with a 100mhz overclock.

I never touched the Vcore on the old board and had 3.1ghz just fine , I tried upping it to 1.3 with a mild overclock on the new board but it makes no difference.

Current Vcore is 1.264 back with standard settings on everything.

Tried the memory at all sorts of speeds but that makes no difference.

Tried disabling usb things and all power saving things in the bios , no change.

There doesn't seem to be many people on the net with this motherboard and I am struggling when searching for info on it.

I am a little puzzled.

This is very off topic for this thread so perhaps a mod could split it off to the overclocking forum or I may start a new thread later.

Cheers

Paul.
 

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paulpicks21 said:
Hi Dave ,

The temps look just like before , I always keep an eye on my temps no matter what just of of interest more than anything. Didn't go above 50 on any core.

Didn't really see the point in running prime95 when I know its not stable for more than a few mins anyway lol.

It appears that I cannot seem to overclock at all now , as the system had starting rebooting for no reason just with a 100mhz overclock.

I never touched the Vcore on the old board and had 3.1ghz just fine , I tried upping it to 1.3 with a mild overclock on the new board but it makes no difference.

Current Vcore is 1.264 back with standard settings on everything.

Tried the memory at all sorts of speeds but that makes no difference.

Tried disabling usb things and all power saving things in the bios , no change.

There doesn't seem to be many people on the net with this motherboard and I am struggling when searching for info on it.

I am a little puzzled.

This is very off topic for this thread so perhaps a mod could split it off to the overclocking forum or I may start a new thread later.

Cheers

Paul.
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Got to be a setting holding this back.

Did you update drivers and BIOS?

Your right not much info from searching.

Call Asus, see if they have anything about this issue.

Best to start a new thread in the overclocking forum.
 
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OCZ-Vertex2

I had Win7 installed on a Velociraptor drive with ACHI.
I simply backed it up with the Win7 backup, replaced the Velociraptor with the OCZ Vertex2 straight from the box, then booted to the Microsoft "System Repair" disk I had made in the backup. I just told it to restore everything from the Velociraptor drive to the OCZ drive, and it worked fine. When the system came up it recognized the OCZ drive as an SSD. I just forced the swap area to be on the D drive, and everything seems fine.

I'm a little worried about the SMART "Reallocated Sector Count", but the numbers haven't changed since I installed so I suspect it's OK.

I tried turning off "disk caching". This made the system slow and weird, so I turned it back on. Supposedly this SSD has no internal cache.
 

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