Changed from ddr2 to ddr3 ram motherboard, ssd went from 7.4 back to 5.9 WEI

(I though I posted this somewhere, but after computer restart I lost link to thread, sorry if this is a dupe, my luck really has turned for the worse past days).

 

Hello, I decided to upgrade my computer, it was previously running on the old motherboard that supports DDR2 RAM(which only gave me about 200Mbps(I think, didnt verify by bench~) read/write), I had my Corsair Force 3 SSD drive which I kept and still using on the new motherboard(990FX R2.0).

 

The reason I heard that the SSD was so slow was because of this old motherboard, if I could get a new one that supports etc DDR3 RAM and this sata3 thingy, then I would be able to utilize something similar to the promised 500+ read/write of my SSD drive.

 

On my old motherboard, I had 7.4 in windows experience index for SSD disk performance.

 

However now when I upgraded to this new motherboard which should support my SSD to its fullest potential, the ssd speed dropped down to aprox 80/40 Mbps speed/write

And the WEI dropped down to 5.9.

 

What is going on? Googling does not seem to help me, they tell me to verify that it is AHCI, which it has always been in OS registry, and it configured automatically to AHCI in the BIOS.

 

(In first boot of the new motherboard, OS crashed and I had to manually enter the BIOS, and boot the SSD drive to start windows for some reason).

 

I have connected off the regular SATA spindisk to verify that the only connected hard drive to computer is the SSD, and I still get 5.9 WEI

 

Updating SSD firmware:

Tried to download corsair force 3 SSD latest firmware, extracted the 120GB version which fits my disk. (even tho I only seem to be able to use aprox 94GB of it).

 

Selected update Formware, entered the 120GB folder, selected the file that was related to my signature ending code, and I got this image:

And yes, I have tried to run this program as administrator, does not help at all.

 

So yeah, no luck here. :[

 

I am complete noob in this field, all this failed knowledge have I learned past days just googling around. Now I am frustrated and desperate enough to do my best to fill you in and hopefully gain a chance to actually fix this problem.

 

Any reply is highly appreciated since I really want to get my disk running at its apropriate speed, thanks!

Run a ATTO benchmark and post a screenshot.

 

The second image of A SSD shows the partition is not aligned which could also be a problem.

 

Note that W.E.I. is not to be used as a benchmark as those numbers can change over time.

Here it is:

And im pretty clueless to what these results mean. :|

 

Im not using WEI for accurate benchmarking, but to determine wether windows is understanding my components like it should. If it does not then there should be some sort of problem thats causing windows from utilizing the component to its fullest potential?

You can secure erase the drive with Parted Magic to see if you get a higher WEI score it will also do it as the partition is not aligned.

Is the benchmark speed good that I got from ATTO?

Not really,

 

These are the advertised speeds for the Force 3 120GB SSD

ax Sequential R/W (ATTO):

550 MB/s sequential read

510 MB/s sequential write

 

Also note the AMD chipsets are a little slower than Intel chipsets.

AHCI is enabled in the BIOS, fourth Screenshot.

2nd one is probably true.

 

Based on the second screenshot, You are using the AMD AHCI drivers? If so, uninstall it and let Windows install the MSAHCI driver then try the FW update again.

 

If it does update successfully, i'd suggest you secure erase the drive with Parted magic and reinstall Windows as it should fix the alignment issue.