Wow!

Dead Dog · 17 Oct 2012 at 23:13

I've just done a decent upgrade(for me!)
from Q9450, asus P5Q, 4 gb ram, 150gb velociraptor & vista
to
Xenon ivy bridge E3-1245, Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3P, 16 gb geil black dragon ram, crucial 128gb M4 SSD & windows 7 Pro (+ original samsung 500gb hdd)

The difference is outstanding, most of this no doubt is due to the SSD, and I'm pretty sure my old mobo was on its last legs, but god stuff is just there!! windows has booted up before the old set up would have got to the bois screen!

Any set up must do's I should be doing - I'm so far out of the loop I can't even see it!

How do you check what firmware the ssd is? I know you should back up - will that wipe whats on for sure if I update the firmware?

Super happy!

rishy · 18 Oct 2012 at 00:19

You can check within device manager under the properties section

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 18 Oct 2012 at 01:13

That is due to the combination of Windows 7 and a SSD.

passey89 · 18 Oct 2012 at 06:22

make sure SSD is set to AHCI in the bios

Dead Dog · 18 Oct 2012 at 07:54

passey89 said:
make sure SSD is set to AHCI in the bios

Done that - cheers

Did update the firmware, all good

Do you still want to defrag SSD's?

passey89 · 18 Oct 2012 at 08:44

no dnt defrag SSD's

Devrij · 18 Oct 2012 at 09:19

Dead Dog said:
Done that - cheers

Did update the firmware, all good

Do you still want to defrag SSD's?

No need to defrag SSDs (in fact it reduces lifespan by adding unnecessary writes to the nand chips) as it doesn't matter where the data is on the drive (unlike on a mech drive where the arm has to find the data on the platter).

ubersonic · 18 Oct 2012 at 09:20

Hey, glad your liking the CPU/Mobo, one thing I would suggest (dunno why I didn't mention this ni a previous email) is that as you will have seen the are 8 SATA ports, 4 black SATA II ports, 2 white SATA III ports and 2 grey SATA III ports. I would advise having the SSD connected to the white ones (if its connected to the others you can swap it over and all will be fine). This is because the black/white ones are on the Intel controller and the grey ones are on a Marvell controller added to the board to provide more ports, I tested both controllers and found the Intel SATA III ports to have a bit better performance than the Marvell ones.

Dead Dog · 18 Oct 2012 at 14:25

Hi James, yeah well happy, I think I did put it on the white, I did look up the manual and noticed some were SATA2 SATA3 and MSATA3, not sure if I have installed the intel sata driver yet though, only kinda finished it last night.

Cool - won't defrag

BluSky · 18 Oct 2012 at 19:18

Nice build, any particular reason you went with a xeon over the regular ivy bridge consumer part?

Dead Dog · 19 Oct 2012 at 14:18

Used on MM from ubersonic