Any help would be greatly appreciated, I am really beating my head against the wall on this one.
So I setup a new computer wanted to get something pretty decent. So I order my parts and put everything together.
GIGABYTE GA-Z68XP-UD3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
EVGA 015-P3-1580-AR GeForce GTX 580 (Fermi) 1536MB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
CORSAIR Enthusiast Series CMPSU-850TX 850W ATX12V v2.2 / EPS12V v2.91 SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Power Supply
Intel Core i7-2600 Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 2000 BX80623I72600
OCZ Agility 3 AGT3-25SAT3-240G 2.5" 240GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Desktop Memory Model F3-10666CL9Q-32GBXL
Everything runs fine, except whenever the drive is in use. When everything is running on memory, runs great. Data transfers to the drive grind the entire system to a halt. Games that would load in under a minute on my old system (Phenom2 Quad Core 8 GB of RAM, regular HDD) take, no exageration, 5 to 10 mins to load, but then run absolutely fine, until it needs to access the drive agian.
I take a look at the ocz forums and a lot of advice regarding ssds. After a few days of adjustments and no improvement I figure its just the drive and exchange it for Crucial M4 CT256M4SSD2 2.5" 256GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD).
The new drive comes and I still have the same problem. So once again I start looking into the problem but haven't been able to find anything really helpful.
I recently just reinstalled Windows. Here is a screen shot of AS SSD benchmark I just ran. Not as great as what I have seen some people post but I don't think it is bad enough to accurately indicate the performance issues I see when the drive is in use.
I have read a few different pages regarding aligning the drive, my take away was that Windows 7 handles this during the install. The drive is set to AHCI in the bios. I have tried in the past disabling drive indexing and removing the paging file. I have the drive plugged into the Intel SATA 3 Port on the motherboard.
I recently installed a a Hitachi 7200 RPM w/ 64 MB of Cache SATA3 drive, on the same SATA controller as the SSD, and it seems to be working fine.
I don't know if the fault is really with the drive or something else in the system. From other computers it always seemed that without tweaking that the SSD should run decent but in my case drive access seems to drag down the entire system.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, please let me know any extra information I can provide to help narrow this down. It's really driving me nuts.
So I setup a new computer wanted to get something pretty decent. So I order my parts and put everything together.
GIGABYTE GA-Z68XP-UD3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
EVGA 015-P3-1580-AR GeForce GTX 580 (Fermi) 1536MB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
CORSAIR Enthusiast Series CMPSU-850TX 850W ATX12V v2.2 / EPS12V v2.91 SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Power Supply
Intel Core i7-2600 Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 2000 BX80623I72600
OCZ Agility 3 AGT3-25SAT3-240G 2.5" 240GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Desktop Memory Model F3-10666CL9Q-32GBXL
Everything runs fine, except whenever the drive is in use. When everything is running on memory, runs great. Data transfers to the drive grind the entire system to a halt. Games that would load in under a minute on my old system (Phenom2 Quad Core 8 GB of RAM, regular HDD) take, no exageration, 5 to 10 mins to load, but then run absolutely fine, until it needs to access the drive agian.
I take a look at the ocz forums and a lot of advice regarding ssds. After a few days of adjustments and no improvement I figure its just the drive and exchange it for Crucial M4 CT256M4SSD2 2.5" 256GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD).
The new drive comes and I still have the same problem. So once again I start looking into the problem but haven't been able to find anything really helpful.
I recently just reinstalled Windows. Here is a screen shot of AS SSD benchmark I just ran. Not as great as what I have seen some people post but I don't think it is bad enough to accurately indicate the performance issues I see when the drive is in use.
I have read a few different pages regarding aligning the drive, my take away was that Windows 7 handles this during the install. The drive is set to AHCI in the bios. I have tried in the past disabling drive indexing and removing the paging file. I have the drive plugged into the Intel SATA 3 Port on the motherboard.
I recently installed a a Hitachi 7200 RPM w/ 64 MB of Cache SATA3 drive, on the same SATA controller as the SSD, and it seems to be working fine.
I don't know if the fault is really with the drive or something else in the system. From other computers it always seemed that without tweaking that the SSD should run decent but in my case drive access seems to drag down the entire system.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, please let me know any extra information I can provide to help narrow this down. It's really driving me nuts.
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