6gbs Just wow

So, I have an old X58 mobo with a Xeon 5680 at 4.2
I have had no reason to upgrade yet, except for the Hard Drive speeds. I didn't think my 3 SSD's (all rated for 6gbs) would see any difference. Ha on me.
So I spent a pretty penny, knowing I could return it, on company X's PCIE 6gbs 4 port jobby.
Had to mess around to get everything to work, between the card bios, my bios, and Windows, but finally...

WHY DIDN'T YOU PEOPLE TELL ME WHAT I WAS MISSING!

The PC boots so fast I can't get to my BIOS lol, Games have had frame rates jump an average of 10-28 FPS
depending on the game (especially MMO's), and my God... Web Pages, Oh the Glorious, um, personal web pages
I'm going to look at later. They literally snap into place. Even with 150/50 cable internet, pages still seemed slow, I always just blamed that on the pages/their servers, but now I know it was me, it was me all along!

In summary, if your a fellow X58 Holdout, go get yourself a 6gbs card, now. Don't walk, RUN. Don't go all cheap either, I know paying $100-$200 (maybe more) for an 8 year old Motherboard add on seems like alot, but I just got another few years from mine. Sure a new mobos come with this built in. But you have to buy the mobo and CPU and RAM. For me, this add in card made the math easy.

Moving from SATAII to SATAIII would boost sequential speeds but it wouldn't impact random speeds unless you had a high end SSD (that can write that fast randomly). Even then, a boost to random or sequential speeds I can't imagine it would have that much of an impact on normal workloads (web browsing/gaming/etc)

I'd tend to believe that perhaps you had the SSDs plugged into Marvel ports (which can be garbage) or had some other misconfiguration causing slowness.

TL;DR By moving to the 6Gbps HBA you bypass the ports causing issues. Likely not the 6Gbps itself.

If you were running your SSDs in RAID 0 on the x58 chipset, that is probably the cause of your random read/write slow speeds, and whatever card you got was better able to handle RAID 0 SSDs. In general, on consumer platforms, RAID 0 SSDs either make 0 difference on performance or are actually detrimental to most instances of general use performance.

I noticed absolutely no difference in boot speed (other than what was affected by UEFI Fast Boot) when going from X58 to X79. Same 6 gbps capable SSD. Same with general performance. Loading games might have been marginally faster, but only in games with massive maps, which I rarely play.

Nope, I have my windows ssd, my games ssd, and storage ssd (64/ 240 / 240) Was using MSI X-58 onboard sata. Maybe over the years something had gone bad, but windows 10 and my board just got a whole lot of loving (and life). CPU/Gigabyte GTX 980 G1 are both water cooled, and the other case fans have kept a good flow through my case, so temps are never a problem either. This is the first time, including GPU upgrades, I have ever noticed immediate results, enough so I took time out to make a post about it!

[H]Lite? WTH, I used to have 5000 messages

something doesn't add up

Op, something is funky with your motherboard or drivers/ o s configuration. Theres no way you would have gotten suchca huge boost from just that.

Maybe it's relative. There is no hard data to dispute. I can say, that moving to RAID 0 SATAII SSDs on an X58 motherboard did give a noticeable performance boost. Crystal Disk Mark shows reads <400MBps vs ~256MBps for a single drive. I see a major decrease in boot time, even with RAID BIOS.

you don't really get any fps boost from doing raid or switching from sata2 to sata3, even with sata2 ssd can read about 300MBps or so, it's not bad,

SSimmons05 said:

Games have had frame rates jump an average of 10-28 FPS

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FPS is determined by your CPU/GPU, only load times/fluidity would be noticeably affected by the change. You may have been using a slight bit more CPU overhead with your old SATA controller but it shouldn't be enough to produce that kind of measurable difference.

I also noticed a fairly big improvement going from X58 to X79 using a pair of 840 Pros in RAID-0.

However I cannot point to the platform upgrade as the cause, since in X58 I think there was no good mechanism to issue Trim commands to drives in a stripe, and during my upgrade I did an OS reinstall and therefore did a fresh format and trim of the drives. That could be the cause of the improved performance I saw.