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Title: Poor SSD Scores On Atto Bench Mark Test On Z68X-UD4-B3
Post by: Glenn on April 03, 2012, 10:26:09 am: Hi my name is Glenn
I bought an GA-Z68X-UD4-B3 gigabyte mother board as well as k2600 cpu also 16 gig of cosair vengeance ram and two hd 6950 ati 1 gig graphics cards Plus One GT 120 SSD hard drive. Ok i firstly hooked this ssd up to sata port 0 on the sata 3 connector but my bios was set to ide but it was the best score i evea had!!!. A friend of mine always buys a new computer at the same time as me with the same specks so we can help each other through any problems. He bought a kingston hard drive instead of corsair like me. He found on the internet that ahci is the fastest type of configuration for the ssd format . Ok, so we both did a install with windows 7 64 bit all the lastest drivers from the gigabyte webb site also updated my bios to f 10 due to it had gone from beta to offical listing,"so newer the better"... but i dont think its the issue as it was at f10 with the ide install. Please advise me on how to set up the bios, so i can fix this problem. As I have returned the gt 120 under warrenty and bought a intel 520 because the reports were all good!! Plus they offer support tools which i give a thumbs up. I have posted a bench score showing the problem. If it helps, I have a thermal take 1200 watt power supply from my old unit no problems there. Thank You Glenn.
Title: Re: Poor SSD Scores On Atto Bench Mark Test On Z68X-UD4-B3
Post by: Dark Mantis on April 03, 2012, 10:56:26 am: Hi

Have you started off with a Secure Erase just to make sure that the drive is in the best possible condition.

Make sure the drive is on the Intel SATA3 controller's port.

Only use SATA2 specified cabling. That is the ones that has the metal locking clips on it.

Turn off write caching on the drive.

Make sure that when you installed the BIOS it was done with QFlash and that the option to Keep DMI Data was disabled on the QFlash homepage.

Synchronise both BIOS chips so that they both have the same BIOS version aboard.
Title: Re: Poor SSD Scores On Atto Bench Mark Test On Z68X-UD4-B3
Post by: Glenn on April 03, 2012, 11:20:23 am: Hi thank you for your quick reply i emailed gigabyte about three days ago and guess what they got back to me about an hour after i posted this question . It was the c3/c6 setting under advanced cpu core features i just disabled it and you little ripper away she went .. Thank you So much for your advice and i am glad to be a member now of this web forum . i will post a new picture of this atto score after i finish putting my pc back together lol Glenn.
Title: Re: Poor SSD Scores On Atto Bench Mark Test On Z68X-UD4-B3
Post by: Dark Mantis on April 03, 2012, 11:32:23 am: The power saving and sleep modes do cause a lot of problems with all sorts of things which is why I normally disable them as soon as I have finished sorting all the other settings.

Hopefully your SSD will work much better now and no more problems. ;)
Title: Re: Poor SSD Scores On Atto Bench Mark Test On Z68X-UD4-B3
Post by: Glenn on April 03, 2012, 12:36:37 pm: Just For any suffering the same problem look no futher this fixed mine Thank you.
Two pics before and after
Title: Re: Poor SSD Scores On Atto Bench Mark Test On Z68X-UD4-B3
Post by: Dark Mantis on April 03, 2012, 01:11:31 pm: Well that seems to have done the trick there for sure. As with everything once you know it seems so simple. ;)