OcUK FIRST - OCZ Vertex 3 Available to Pre-Order!

Zaim · 5 Apr 2011 at 21:22

Alfie said:
You bought a drive specifically designd for use on 6gbps and you're using it with a 3gbps controller. I'm so confused right now! Why did you waste your money so? of course you're going to get slow transfers!

Am I missing something?

Ye he should get a SATA 6GBPS Card so it works at it's full potential:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CC-004-SR&groupid=701&catid=49&subcat=424

Alfie · 5 Apr 2011 at 21:44

Yeah, good call. Didn't mean to come across so harsh! I'm just jealous I have to wait! I am intrigued though, did you know you can only use 50% of it's potential in your rig?

daz.rathbone · 5 Apr 2011 at 22:59

No, my board has a marvel sata3 controller, its just poor, as above.
You recommended trying it on the Intel controller, which is sata2

jimmy321 · 5 Apr 2011 at 23:47

What are you using to benchmark the drive? use ATTO disk benchmark for Vertex SSD's.

Shamikebab · 5 Apr 2011 at 23:55

How do you find out what SATA3 controller a board has? I'm thinking about getting an MSI P67A-GD65 but I'd like to know if it will work well with a new SSD (whichever one I end up getting.

daz.rathbone · 5 Apr 2011 at 23:57

Was using crystalmark. Thx will try that one.

Atom · 5 Apr 2011 at 23:58

Something on OCZ forums about the marvell controller being crap. Can't remember what thread it was thou.

Alfie · 6 Apr 2011 at 00:19

daz.rathbone said:
No, my board has a marvel sata3 controller, its just poor, as above.
You recommended trying it on the Intel controller, which is sata2

oops, sorry. Just assumed you were on P67 for some reason.

SimonMaltby · 6 Apr 2011 at 08:38

Got my 240GB drive yesterday and it's all installed.

Can confirm I'm getting the correct performance aTTo peaks at 570 read 520 write
Will try and post a screen shot later. This is on a P8P67 Pro motherboard and while in Windows 7.

So it does what it says on the tin

which i'm delighted about... 570 Read with TRIM suits me perfectly

~Mike~ · 6 Apr 2011 at 08:46

SimonMaltby said:
Got my 240GB drive yesterday and it's all installed.

Can confirm I'm getting the correct performance aTTo peaks at 570 read 520 write
Will try and post a screen shot later. This is on a P8P67 Pro motherboard and while in Windows 7.

So it does what it says on the tin which i'm delighted about... 570 Read with TRIM suits me perfectly

Thats nice performance.

Sorry to go of topic but how have you got on with your P8P67 Pro? Any issues?

SimonMaltby · 6 Apr 2011 at 09:16

Mike306 said:
Thats nice performance.

Sorry to go of topic but how have you got on with your P8P67 Pro? Any issues?

I've been ok with the P8P67 Pro, Issues seem to relate to memory really, so I have always stuck to memory that works. I use the OCZ Reaper 1600 6-8-6-24 stuff. I did add a second set yesterday and started getting all the issues people describe (instant power off after boot, hanging with the PCI-e light on). I ended up having to loosen to 1600 8,8,8,24 to get it to work.
I also added a second GTX570 yesterday in SLI, which worried me cos a friend had terreble troble with a Deluxe and 2 x 480's which would not enable SLI.... mine works fine.

Other than that I have been fine.

1kiwi · 6 Apr 2011 at 11:09

Any news on stock this morning Gibbo?

~Mike~ · 6 Apr 2011 at 12:59

SimonMaltby said:
I've been ok with the P8P67 Pro, Issues seem to relate to memory really, so I have always stuck to memory that works. I use the OCZ Reaper 1600 6-8-6-24 stuff. I did add a second set yesterday and started getting all the issues people describe (instant power off after boot, hanging with the PCI-e light on). I ended up having to loosen to 1600 8,8,8,24 to get it to work.
I also added a second GTX570 yesterday in SLI, which worried me cos a friend had terreble troble with a Deluxe and 2 x 480's which would not enable SLI.... mine works fine.

Other than that I have been fine.

Thanks Simon.

Back to topic now.

Gibbo · 6 Apr 2011 at 13:13

beh* said:
Any news on stock this morning Gibbo?

10 due today of each size from France.

80 of 120GB due Friday/Monday.

This leave us about 20x 120GB spare now.

Gibbo · 6 Apr 2011 at 13:36

240GB now back in stock!

1kiwi · 6 Apr 2011 at 14:17

Thanks Gibbo.

RedGooner · 6 Apr 2011 at 15:57

Gibbo said:
10 due today of each size from France.

80 of 120GB due Friday/Monday.

This leave us about 20x 120GB spare now.

@Gibbo Guess my 120Gb will be in on friday then, not had an email saying it been sent out...

Thx

Gibbo · 6 Apr 2011 at 16:16

RedGooner said:
@Gibbo Guess my 120Gb will be in on friday then, not had an email saying it been sent out...

Thx

Most likely yes, as I say todays shipment was very small.

daz.rathbone · 6 Apr 2011 at 20:05

Moved it onto my Intel (SATA2) controller and it's actually quicker than the Marvell (SATA3) one. Poor chipset, the Marvell one, lots seem to be having problems with S3 devices.

Soo, bit the bullet and decided on a Sandybridge upgrade. Should be more than the storage running quicker

nicRob · 6 Apr 2011 at 21:03

What results did you get on the Marvell controller? Peaking at 410/236 in Atto here, which is about what I expected. Would be nice to use the full capability of the ssd of course, but as I only got this i7 930 and x58 mobo late last year.....going to be some time before I upgrade again!

***OcUK FIRST - OCZ Vertex 3 Available to Pre-Order!***

OcUK FIRST - OCZ Vertex 3 Available to Pre-Order!