CPU affecting SSD benches?

[perdomot]

I wanted to see how the sata of another 785G mobo compared to my current one but got some weird results. My 30GB Vertex was getting 1/3 the normal write speeds and about half the read speeds. I'm wondering if having a 2.7Ghz single core Sempron for the cpu would have this kind of effect. When I first tested the drive, it was using a 3.4Ghz Phenom X3 720 cpu and I'm wondering if this might have made a difference. I can't believe a Gigabyte mobo could be that bad. All factors such as drivers were identical too.

 

[razel]

It should not affect it. 2.7 Ghz is not slow. I had a very slow Intel Atom 1.6 CPU with an Intel SSD and it posted the same benches as you see on reviews online with faster CPUs.

Your power settings can affect it. Try settting it to 'high performance.' There could also be things running in the background during the bench. It could be something in Windows (defrag, system restore) or the drive doing garbage collection. How about after doing some web surfing, let the computer sit for about 15 mins, then reboot and try running the bench in safe mode. Light web surfing and some idle time could give garbage collection some time to clean up and safe mode, in nearly all of my SSD benches, always gave best results.

 

[perdomot]

Never mind. Found I screwed up the firmware flash and fixed the problem.