Is my ssd running okay...

adamknox · 8 Sep 2010 at 18:20

My ssd is crucial c300 64gb which i recived in the post today

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-007-CR&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=910

Ive installed it (correctly i think) in a 3Gbps port (i dont have the 6gbps) and ive just ran crystaldiskmark 2.2 on my ssd drive. This is what it says

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Is it me or does that look a lil low? ><

This is my first ssd so i may have done something wrong lol

P.s ive also put the sata onto ACHI? But all my other drives dissipear including the SSD >< The onyl drive the remins with my c drive (my hhd)

adamknox · 8 Sep 2010 at 18:27

P.s just downloaded the 3.0 version and its still the same scores as before

i ran a test on my HDD and tbh.. the read speeds were only just below the ssd. is that normal?

ryan4227 · 8 Sep 2010 at 18:57

Hey

Looks a little slow read for that disk

Did you enable AHCI in the bios that can improve preformance greatly

Let me know

Regards Ryan

adamknox · 8 Sep 2010 at 19:00

ryan4227 said:
Hey

Looks a little slow read for that disk

Did you enable AHCI in the bios that can improve preformance greatly

Let me know

Regards Ryan

yep and all the drives dissipear from Bios and "my computer" -_-

apart from the OS drive (c drive)

I have two sets of sata connectors on my board blue and white. each support 3GBPS but the whites are labled Gsata2 according to the mobo manual and controlled by sata2/jmb322. the blue ones are labled sata2 and controlled by amd sb750. i have the SSD plugged into the white ones

ryan4227 · 8 Sep 2010 at 19:04

Hey

Just out of intrest what motherboard ahve you got something isn't right?

Cheers

Regards Ryan

adamknox · 8 Sep 2010 at 19:06

ryan4227 said:
Hey

Just out of intrest what motherboard ahve you got something isn't right?

Cheers

Regards Ryan

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3005#ov this mobo

I talked to OCUK help ppl and they said my mobo would go with the ssd fine

ryan4227 · 8 Sep 2010 at 19:09

Hey

Have you tried moving things about? May get some benefits having them on same controller possibly fix issue

Regards Ryan

adamknox · 8 Sep 2010 at 19:13

ryan4227 said:
Hey

Have you tried moving things about? May get some benefits having them on same controller possibly fix issue

Regards Ryan[/QUOTE
I did but ill try again be back shortly.

ryan4227 · 8 Sep 2010 at 19:21

Hey

ok

Regards Ryan

adamknox · 8 Sep 2010 at 19:39

ryan4227 said:
Hey

ok

Regards Ryan

right ive swapped it around again

and got this..

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Is this where it should be?

Makhaira · 8 Sep 2010 at 19:42

Yea that looks entirely acceptable. What did you change?

adamknox · 8 Sep 2010 at 19:46

Makhaira said:
Yea that looks entirely acceptable. What did you change?

I plugged it into the blue socket! It was in the white socket. Oh well

ty ryan VM for your help! I owe you a drink

ryan4227 · 8 Sep 2010 at 20:02

Hey

No problem i am more than happy to help

Regards Ryan

Edit: also what do you think of that drive ive got one coming tomorrow and want to know what you think of it?

Cheers

adamknox · 8 Sep 2010 at 20:09

ryan4227 said:
Hey

No problem i am more than happy to help

Regards Ryan

Edit: also what do you think of that drive ive got one coming tomorrow and want to know what you think of it?

Cheers

Well im just installing Sims 3 on it! (im only using it for gaming) so i may not be the best judge but form what ive seen so far of the benchmarks and near instant large file transfers

Im very happy with it

Ill post back after ive tryed a few other games (games that use a lot of texture streaming)

ryan4227 · 8 Sep 2010 at 20:19

hey

cheers for that will be good to know

Regards Ryan

Duke · 8 Sep 2010 at 20:55

An SSD for Sims 3? Now I've heard it all

adamknox · 8 Sep 2010 at 21:07

ryan4227 said:
hey

cheers for that will be good to know

Regards Ryan

Well ive installed Sims 3 and LOTRO. Sims 3 did start up pretty quickly compared to how it used too (the quality is still poor..but thats just because its encoding poorly) Lord of the rings online loading pretty quickly too!

If im 100% honest.. its not the increase i imaged... If i could go back in time id have saved the £113

lol DOnt think OCUK would let me send it back either now its opended lol Ahh well

It does work 100% okay now tho and if you use it for o.s i can imagien the start up time would be increase 10 fold!

Duke said:
An SSD for Sims 3? Now I've heard it all

Lol Tbh i thought id give it a try. Ive had 4 major upgrades since its release and NONE of them helped the judder you get when you scroll.. thought an SSD may help but alas..not

It also takes AGES to start up on a HDD.. So i thought i could give it a good test with a SSD. It did start up a lot quicker tho

The upgrades were..

1: AMD duel core 6400+ to a am3 955 x4 quad 3.8Ghz (oc)
2: 9500GT to a 285GTX (then to a 4870x2..then to a 5870 >< lol
3: going from ddr2 to ddr3 (with a better mobo)
4: winodws vista to winodws 7.

Nickson · 8 Sep 2010 at 21:16

Still deciding whether to get one of these or not.. mhmmmmm

Everyone says yes, but wallet says nooooooo!

adamknox · 8 Sep 2010 at 21:18

Nickson said:
Still deciding whether to get one of these or not.. mhmmmmm

Everyone says yes, but wallet says nooooooo!

Well i would say NO now after setting it all up.. >< lol

... wana buy mine for £100?

Its still under Overclockers guarentee! lol! Im sure it would be fine for a O/s start up.. but for my uses.. its not much cop

Im going to give it 24hour test (for diff games) and if i dont see anything worse it im gunna put it on overclockers MM

Brabbinho · 8 Sep 2010 at 22:30

I would say yes. Load times for windows 7 and games is certainly much faster. Has really improved LOTRO