OCZ Agility 3 - avoiding problems

richiej1979 · 18 Jan 2012 at 15:12

Hi there, I'm in the process of installing the above SSD onto my machine -

Gigabyte GA-M68MT-S2 (doesn't support SATA3 3 gb p/s, or AHCI)
AM3 CPU
G.Skill RipJawsX 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz
Win 7
1 x Radeon 6770 gfx

I also have a Toshiba 1tb HDD.

I am currently installing the new drivers for the board which should enable AHCI and hopefully TRIM but what's the best way to avoid issues with this particular SSD?

Had I of researched properly I think I would have got a Crucial M4 as I'm not going to get the speeds out of the Agility 3 anyway with my setup.

Thanks

richiej1979 · 19 Jan 2012 at 11:07

richiej1979 said:
Hi there, I'm in the process of installing the above SSD onto my machine -

Gigabyte GA-M68MT-S2 (doesn't support SATA3 3 gb p/s, or AHCI)
AM3 CPU
G.Skill RipJawsX 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz
Win 7
1 x Radeon 6770 gfx

I also have a Toshiba 1tb HDD.

I am currently installing the new drivers for the board which should enable AHCI and hopefully TRIM but what's the best way to avoid issues with this particular SSD?

Had I of researched properly I think I would have got a Crucial M4 as I'm not going to get the speeds out of the Agility 3 anyway with my setup.

Thanks

....so I woke up this am and switched on the machine and it freezes.

Sigh.

richiej1979 · 19 Jan 2012 at 11:30

I checked the latest firmware update on the OCZ site and it's the latest version, I think it's 2.6 or something along those lines.

I'm going to do a clean install of W7 tonight and hope that resolves the issue.

I'm booting from the SSD but I'm not using AHCI. I should add I tried booting from my other w7 install and that worked fine and I was able to read the disk with no problems.