- Aug 18, 2003
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I bought an OCZ ARC 100 during a Newegg deal a couple weeks back (for $109). I'm trying to figure out why my speeds are slow. I also bought and installed a SATA III controller to go with it (SYBA Marvell) into a PCIe x1 slot. I'm guessing that I'm hitting the limit of the PCIe bus when I'm scoring so low on benchmarks in the 200MB tops range.
I have an older mobo: Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD3R v1.0 and I see that my original Windows 8.1 install was using IDE (instead of AHCI) I cloned that install and then set to AHCI in BIOS. I'm guessing I can increase speeds by reinstalling fresh as AHCI and using onboard SATA II versus the new SATA III controller on PCIe x1 2.0. My CPU is i7 and I have 12GB DDR3 so the rest of the system is decent enough until my next upgrade.
But I was curious if anyone could shed some light on my most limiting factors here. I'll probably try switching over to on board SATA II just to run a comparison. Then try re-installing windows over the weekend. Here's my drive config, it's looks like AHCI is active if it's showing on the list but maybe its not entirely setup since I'm not using the AHCI driver in the benchmark.
I have an older mobo: Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD3R v1.0 and I see that my original Windows 8.1 install was using IDE (instead of AHCI) I cloned that install and then set to AHCI in BIOS. I'm guessing I can increase speeds by reinstalling fresh as AHCI and using onboard SATA II versus the new SATA III controller on PCIe x1 2.0. My CPU is i7 and I have 12GB DDR3 so the rest of the system is decent enough until my next upgrade.
But I was curious if anyone could shed some light on my most limiting factors here. I'll probably try switching over to on board SATA II just to run a comparison. Then try re-installing windows over the weekend. Here's my drive config, it's looks like AHCI is active if it's showing on the list but maybe its not entirely setup since I'm not using the AHCI driver in the benchmark.