Recent content by pr1970

Thanks will look into wiping it and starting over. I tried turning off write cache but it just halved the write speeds again. Felt like I was running a normal hard drive not an ssd, ah well.

I`ve asked a local shop if they can get it in, then let them build it for me. That way if its not working they can sort it out. I know the owner so he`ll do it for nothing which is handy :-) Thanks for the help.

Again too pricey where i am i`m afraid, over double the price of that gigabyte board for those MSI boards which is a shame. Think i may go for the gigabyte , it has all the features I need really. Thanks

Hi All I have a problem with my pc slowing down drastically when 3d rendering in Maya ie CPU 90% usuage. I`m using a i7 2600k intel with 16gb 1600mhz dd3 ram and i`m pretty sure it never use to be as bad as it is now. I`m having to resort to putting maya into a low priority so that I can...

Thanks for that. Yes reading a couple of bad things about Asrock quality actually. Been checking Asus prices and unfortunately where I am in the world theyre not that cheap. But for half the price of the Asus I can get the Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H. Seems to get pretty decent reviews. Any good...

My ssd is pretty full at the moment, about 85%. Think it needs clearing out for better performance? With the motherboards, are you saying the Z68 is a better option? or go with the newer Z77 boards? I`m really after something that isnt too expensive, hence why I picked the Asrock or perhaps...

ok thanks for that. I did try some things, ie the marvell controller which was a bit slower and also putting the drive on the sata II controller. But again similar speeds to the marvell. I will have a look at replacing the mainboard I think, I`m having a few issues with screen corruptions...

Thanks. I have had the latest firmware for that ssd for quite a while so its not that. i think i`ll give the marvell controller a go as its rated as sata 3 6gb/s. It never use to be that good but perhaps the later drivers have improved. What kind of speed differences are there between the...

Apologies, have edited it. I have the latest AHCI drivers (and tried windows 7 default drivers), bios is up to date and set to AHCI and the SSD is in Port 1 6gb SATA III and the 2 x WDC drivers are in ports 4 & 5 and SATA II. I`ve disabled a marvell controller and tried disconnecting the WDC...

Couple more benchmarks..THanks

Hi All Noticing that i`m getting slowdowns on my pc and i ran an as ssd benchmark and some of the writes look a bit on the low side compared to other benchmarks with a similar setup, almost half the speed. I`ve tried different drivers, safe mode, a second installation of windows but it always...

Ok thanks, shame because I removed my wifi card the other day but still have the problem. Think ill try doing a clean windows install on another partition and see if that fixes it. My slowdown really only occurs if I'm multitasking and one process is using very high CPU , then the mouse...

Hi Did you ever fix this problem. I have a similar issue and similar setup. I fixed it a while ago with a reinstall of windows 7 but recently the problem has come back and can't figure out what's causing it. Seems to be something to do with high CPU and disk access. Thanks in advance