Help with GA X58A-UD3R rev1 RAM issues and other settings

[Dark Mantis]

Here we go again! 

This has to be one of the most answered questions on this forum. The Marvell 9128 SATA3 chip just didn't live up to it's advertised spec and as such won't work as SATA3. It will however work quite happily as a controller for SATA2 drives so it is usable. As long as you don't overload the controller it works fine. This was a Marvell problem not a Gigabyte one and all manufacturers that utilised the 9128 chip for SATA3 had the same problem.

Your intended setup should be fine for the best performance available.

[gwmbox]

Sorry did not mean to be annoying, just want to be able to have the system run at optimal performance.

Again thanks for all your help in this thread it has helped greatly and is appreciated, many thanks

GW

[Dark Mantis]

No I didn't mean to imply that you were annoying! Just that this question is a perrenial one that comes up over and over again.

[gwmbox]

HI, I wonder if you can help me further with regard to the HDD settings.

While I have set the HDD to AHCI the HDD still seem to be sluggish, so I had a look at what they were being reported as in Speccy and I note they are all showing to be 16MB Cache, when in fact each should be 64MB Cache.



Is there a reason it is doing that and is there a way for me to make a setting chnage to have them set correctly and be able to use the full 64MB Cache as I suspect that is a reason for the sluggish access etc.

Cheers again for your help

GW

[Dark Mantis]

HI

There is no way to change the setting as far as I am aware but it is more likely just a reporting error. Have you tried a different program to see if it is reported differently ?