Asus P6X58D-E and 128 GB C300

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I'm thinking of a 128 GB C300 and an Asus P6X58D-E Intel X58 on a new build.

Can anyone confirm how to set things up for best performance.

I had thought of a Asus U3S6 but THIS thread suggests it would be pointless and the best approach could be to

uninstall the [ Marvell SATA3 controller drivers ] from device manager, reboot the computer and during windows 7 loading up, the MS drivers automatically install.
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Is this the way to go and I assume this will support Trim.
 
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Certainly no point buying the U3S6 when the P6X58D-E already has the Marvell 9128 cont., so put your C300 on that and yes (from what I have read), apparently at the moment the MS drivers seems to work the best....
 
Not tried the MS drivers on the Marvel controller but myself and other people have found the performance awful on it with the Marvel drivers.
 
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I've just setup using the exact combination you speak of.
I'm using the Marvell drivers - I don't know why you wouldn't.
I'll see if I've got time to run some tests this evening and post some results.
 
From elsewhere:

Marvell drivers are rubbish, they work fine but... they're not that good at the moment. If you disable Marvell one and don't install any of their drivers, it will default to the microsoft ones - this is what you want. The Marvell ones don't have TRIM support, and users on the crucial forums say that they are waiting for an update, but so far, nothing yet
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just attach the C300 to the ICH10R and disable the Marvell controller
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All opinion but I've no experience to comment.
 
stoofa said:
But the ICH10R is only SATA2.
The C300 is a SATA3 device.
So surely you want maximum performance.
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Yes but the advice is attached to the sata 3 but use the MS windows drivers for it, not the Marvel ones.

The Marvel chipset issue is especially true if going raid 0. On the sata 3 with Marvel drivers and raid 0, the writing performance is half of what you get on the Intel chipset on sata 2.

It shouldn't be the case, but it is and hence better performance on the sata 2.

However, a single c300 drive is okay to have on the marvel sata 3 connectors so long as you use the MS drivers.

And even if you did have slightly better performance on the sata 3 with the Marvel chipset, it won;t last if TRIM doesn't work. Very quickly your drive would end up performing worse than being on the Intel sata 2 socket.

As I have said before, it's early days for Sata 3 and the drivers just aren;t quite there yet.
 
This is a Crystalmark run on my:

ASUA P6X58D-E
So Marvel controller to Crucial C300
This is using the Marvel driver 1.0.0.1036

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Does anyone have anything similar using the Intel driver - just to see what the difference is?
 
stoofa said:
This is a Crystalmark run on my:

ASUA P6X58D-E
So Marvel controller to Crucial C300
This is using the Marvel driver 1.0.0.1036

crystalmarky.jpg


Does anyone have anything similar using the Intel driver - just to see what the difference is?
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Here. Using Intel RST Driver.

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Check your 4K and mine.
This is on Asus Rampage II Extreme.
 
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There's something I dont understand when it comes to hard drives, controllers, drivers etc..

Ive just built a new rig with a C300 64g and an Asus P6X58D-E

In the bios I set all hard drives to AHCI before I installed win 7 x64 and installed the C300 into the sata 3 port on the mobo. (I use a WD 640G Sata 3 drive on the 2nd port as well)

I didn't install/upgrade any mobo drivers (shamefully) until recently when I got warning messages about some things not having drivers installed....(I lazily usually let windows do most drivers nowadays :o )

So on checking Device Manager both the USB 3.0 Controller and the Marvell 91xx Config ATA Device were both showing error triangles of no drivers!

I have now installed the usb 3.0 controller off the mobo's site, but am wondering what to do with the Marvell 91xx Config ATA Device?

The SSD is obviously working....and a CDM benchtest speed is below, so am I running the windows drivers? or do I need to install the Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager Driver V8.9.0.1023 from Asus site as well?


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The reads seem pretty fast but the writes seem slow ?
 
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Using the same drive and mobo and getting very good performance. Im on my lappy at work, i'll post some results tomorrow. So far this combo rocks
 
So basically the Intel drivers are best when it comes to shifting small files around.
Anything else and the Marvell driver appears better.

Think I'll just stick to how mine is setup - it's doing it's job well.
 
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ok here's the screenshot from AS SSD Bench.

I guess the driver is the msahci.... so its using the standard MS drivers?

(Whats iaStor and what would the marvel driver say there?)


So....what should i do about the Marvell 91xx Config ATA Device in Device Manager saying it has no drivers?

And again, the read speeds seems fast, but the write speeds slow, is this because of the standard ms drivers...though tbh, being an OS drive only its better to have faster read than write speeds i guess...
 
Hi Guys,

I have the same combo (except mines the 64gb version)

I am having quite an issue with it though. I am unable to see it at all in the bios. I have tried a number of things

- The bios is upto date.
- Tried it on the two different 6gb ports
- Tried it on the 3gb ports
- Tried different cables
- Fiddled about with the bios settings.

Am I doing something fundamentally wrong? Or is the SSD bricked?

Any help would be greatly appreciated before i think about RMAing it.

Thanks
 
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