Help me get my PC running well. Lots of problems

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Specs:

i7 920 (Antec Kuhler 620)
6Gb DDR3 Gold OCZ
Gigabyte X58A-UD3R (Rev 1)
128Gb Crucial M4 SSD
eVGA GTX 480
Corsair HX 750W


Not the best PC in the world, but I figure that since I'll be running only at 1920x1080 that it'll do for a year or so.


Anyway, I've got the following problems:

USB 3 dosen't seem to be working at full speed.
SATA 3 dosent' seem to be working well, SSD isn't that fast
Fans are really noisy, how do I control them from motherboard?
CPU temperatures seem quite high
Memory is running at 1066mhz (it's 1600mhz stuff).
Ethernet seems to only run at 100mbps even if I force 1 gigabit in settings. I'm also getting huge spikes, latency in games is only around 30, but every few seconds it'll spike up from between 600-3000!


So yeah, a bit of work needs doing! I'm happy to reinstall the PC if needs be.


A pint or two of someones favourite is waiting for them in Brighton next term if they can help me figure this all out!

Thanks. :)
 
do a bios update first to get the latest bios
download and run atto and let us know what your your read and write speeds are maxing out at or if you can provide a screen print of atto once its run
try and set the memory to run in 1600mhz in the bios its prob set to auto at present and pushing it down to 1066mhz
 
a few ideas for some of your issues:

USB3 - have you got it enabled in the BIOS? have you installed any drivers for USB3 from the motherboard CD/gigabyte website?

SATA3- same applies as above, also have you plugged the hard drive into the correct port.

fan speeds - also normally set in the BIOS although I have no experience of that board.

CPU temp - what temperatures are you experiencing? they might be normal or you may need to re-apply some thermal compound.

Memory - try going into the BIOS and adjusting the memory to use either the XMP profiles or set it to 1600MHz manually. (sometimes this is in the overclocking menu)

Ethernet - can only run as fast as the device you are connected to, so if you have gigabit 10/100/1000 ports on the PC but only 10/100 speed on the router/switch you are connected to you will only see 10/100 speeds.
 
Rik1254 said:
A lot of them problems seems to be motherboard related.....have you checked for driver updates?
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scottmuir424 said:
do a bios update first to get the latest bios
download and run atto and let us know what your your read and write speeds are maxing out at or if you can provide a screen print of atto once its run
try and set the memory to run in 1600mhz in the bios its prob set to auto at present and pushing it down to 1066mhz
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DazQ87 said:
a few ideas for some of your issues:

USB3 - have you got it enabled in the BIOS? have you installed any drivers for USB3 from the motherboard CD/gigabyte website?

SATA3- same applies as above, also have you plugged the hard drive into the correct port.

fan speeds - also normally set in the BIOS although I have no experience of that board.

CPU temp - what temperatures are you experiencing? they might be normal or you may need to re-apply some thermal compound.

Memory - try going into the BIOS and adjusting the memory to use either the XMP profiles or set it to 1600MHz manually. (sometimes this is in the overclocking menu)

Ethernet - can only run as fast as the device you are connected to, so if you have gigabit 10/100/1000 ports on the PC but only 10/100 speed on the router/switch you are connected to you will only see 10/100 speeds.
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I've got the latest bios, have downloaded latest Intel, realtek, gigabyte drivers etc.

Here's an ATTO benchmark I just did

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I still notice pauses from the SSD like with normal hard drives?


The ethernet is plugged into a virgin cable modem (which is gigabit). I can't get it to recognise the 1gbps.

I dont' care about the max speed as long as I can get rid of the lag. :)
 
Ah, I had similar speeds with my M4 untill I enabled AHCI mode.

There was a guide somewhere on the storage devices section on how to enable it once windows is installed, now my M4 returns 450MB/s read speeds.

edit: this is what mine actually now returns

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with the marvell controllers on that mb,those would be the best speeds on sata3 for the op,they improved them with the later boards

adjust the spd system memory multiplier in your bios to 12x if at stock cpu bclk of 133 will give you 12x133=1596mhz ram speed

you can set fans to voltage control in bios or use easytune just for your cpu fan speed to slow it down

for usb3 and lan/internet be sure to use latest drivers,latest ones can be found here if you scroll down

http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyt...system-info-benchmarking-stability-tools.html

makesure the ssd is 4k aligned,check in as ssd benchmark,you might do better putting it on intel sata2 ports as the marvell ones are poor
 
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