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Upgraded rig for MWO, SSD Question


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#1 Jake Stark

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Posted 05 July 2012 - 07:11 AM

So I went and splurged on some upgrades to prepare for MWO, here is what I got,

MSI Z77A GD65
Intel Core i5 3750K (CM Hyper 212 EVO)
Corsair Vengeance 2x4Gb DDR3 1600
Corsair SSD boot drive

Kept everything else,
MSI Cyclone N460GTX 756mb vram
Sata HDDs for storage

I am amazed by the performance of everything especially the SSD. Load times are significantly increased across the board. Battlefield 3 runs smooth on Ultra.

I was expected a big increase in my Windows Experience Index which as 5.5 before because of disc performance. The new setup only got me up to 5.9, everything else pretty much 7.6 or 7.9. I made sure I connected the SSD to the 6gbs Sata port on the MOBO. I also moved my temp folder off the SSD. Are there other settings I am missing in the bios? I reformatted to use the AHCI (spelling?) Sata mode.

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Posted 05 July 2012 - 07:16 AM

Try running the setup without the HDDs connected with a reevaluation?

#3 RenegadeMaster

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Posted 06 July 2012 - 02:38 AM

Vulpes' suggestion would work if WEI uses non-primary HDs, but the WEI score is just for like "primary hard disk". Also, if you're swap/paging file is not on the SSD, that could have an impact on WEI as well - Not sure why someone would do that though...

Edited by RenegadeMaster, 06 July 2012 - 02:39 AM.


#4 Syrusbrian

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Posted 06 July 2012 - 02:51 AM

when i changed from HDD to SSD i dident change the BIOS befor the PC started loading slowly but when it did i had to Updat ethe Firmware in the SSD befor it would allow the mode to go AHCI mode at same time i had to update the BIOS version aswell then it worked like a charm

Cheers

#5 silentD11

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Posted 06 July 2012 - 04:35 PM

Not all SSDs are created equal. If you got a consumer level SSD it's using crap MLC instead of SLC, and lacks in some areas. SSDs have tons of variations over them.

We don't know the controller on that SSD, the firmware, the size, interface, controller you're using, all of these can impact the score.





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