Headsup Pentium G620 Does not Support Smart Response

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I cannot get my ssd to work as a cache drive whil the G620 is installed (Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3-iSSD).

Very little info on this in the wild and while i know the CPU has many features disabled, i could find nothing about Smart Response being specifically disabled.
Anyone else tried this on a Z68 board?
 
System Requirements:
For a system to support Intel Smart Response Technology it must have the following:
 Intel® Z68 Express Chipset-based desktop board
 Intel® Core™ Processor in the LGA 1155 package
 System BIOS with SATA mode set to RAID
 Intel Rapid Storage Technology software 10.5 version release or later
 Single Hard Disk Drive (HDD) or multiple HDD’s in a single RAID volume
 Solid State Drive (SSD) with a minimum capacity of 18.6GB
 Operating system: Microsoft Windows* Vista 32-bit Edition and 64-bit Edition, Microsoft Windows*
7 32-bit Edition and 64-bit

ftp://download.intel.com/support/mo...ntel_smart_response_technology_user_guide.pdf

I don't think the Pentium or Celeron lineup tecnically qualifies as a "Core" processor, as it's not mentioned in the model name.

Still, that's a pretty underhanded way to do things. More instances of Intel disabling features :(
 
And then you probably get to pay $30 or so to "unlock" features.
 
Yeah i had my 2600k in and swapped it out for the G620 to do some benching and the cache drive was disabled. Accelerate is not even an option in the Intel Storage manager anymore.
 
I can maybe understand disabling SRT on the Celeron, but on the Pentium series, too?! Damn, Intel. Just damn.
 
Yeah, I thought SRT was a chipset feature, not a CPU feature.
So much for my new HTPC setup.
 
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This is as lame as SRT not working on the P67 chipset. SRT is a software solution as it is...
 
PGHammer said:
Swap in an i3 and you'll be back in business.
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If i had known that in advance it would have made the decision a bit more clear. It would have been my decision to decide if i wanted to spend teh extra for Smart Response. (the board i have included an mSATA drive for this purpose).
I knew about Quick Sync and Hyper threading etc, that information is easy to find. But i dare you to find a reference anywhere that explicitely says that it is disabled when using this combination.
 
Yeah, they didn't advertise the SRT limitations at all, aside from the requirement for the Z68.
 
I haven’t heard of anything like this but I am going to run it up and see if there is anything I can find out about it. Once I get an answer on this I will bring it back here. Based on what I know the Intel® Pentium® G620 is a Core™ processor based on the shared microarchitecture between these processors and the other 2nd generation Intel Core processors, but I will let you know as soon as I find out an answer on this.
 
The first answer that I got back on this said.

"As far as I know, the Z68 PCH is required along with the correct version of the Intel SATA RAID Option ROM (10.5 or higher), with the iRST driver, again 1.5 or higher, and an approved SSD."

I am still going to see if there is anything on our end but I think this most likely has something to do with Gigabyte and maybe their Bios set up. If I can get back anything else I will pass it along.
 
IntelEnthusiast said:
The first answer that I got back on this said.

"As far as I know, the Z68 PCH is required along with the correct version of the Intel SATA RAID Option ROM (10.5 or higher), with the iRST driver, again 1.5 or higher, and an approved SSD."

I am still going to see if there is anything on our end but I think this most likely has something to do with Gigabyte and maybe their Bios set up. If I can get back anything else I will pass it along.
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As i said i had teh system up and running with a 2600K. I needed that chip back in my main system, so i plunked in the G620. Suddenly no more SRT. I even tried Gigabytes EZ Smart Response tool. No love.
 
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