Is my GTX ok?

[edzar]

I have been trying to sort out if my Neutron GTX 240 is working as well as it should/could. Looking at other peoples benchmarks etc it is hard to tell.

 

But I just ran across this review of the same drive and the score is way better than mine?

From the review

:http://rwlabs.com/images/articles/corsair/neutronGTX240/70.PNG

 

My best bench:

http://i.tinyuploads.com/NQwC6o.png

 

I have employed most every "tweak" i could find. Am i missing something?

 

thanks

[Toasted]

The reviewer may have benchmarked the drive with nothing on it.

[Nec_V20]

I read the review and what they do not tell you is whether or not they are using the SATA ports on the board or a PCIe add on board.

 

If they are using the on board SATA ports are you sure that you have the latest SATA drivers for your Motherboard installed?

 

The information they give with regard to the system they are testing the SSD on make the results pretty much useless with regard to making any kind of comparison to your own.

 

Personally I stopped giving a damn about benchmark tests well over a decade ago.

[edzar]

Yeah, i know it is hard to get apples to apples to compare.

 

I just know that that review had my same drive and it was not in a raid0 config.

 

I did go back through my settings and was able to get my benchmark much higher.

http://www.tinyuploads.com/images/G3HNZF.png

[mik101]

In the latest intel RST driver (12.6), run the Rapid Storage Technology program and go into the performance tab and disable Link State Power Management. You will likely see a boost in 4K performance. It picked up 10% on Reads and 20% on writes on my 120GB GTX.

 

In your first post you're using the built in MSAHCI driver for the harddrive controller, and in the second you are using the correct Intel RST driver that you should be using. On AMD machines you sometimes see better results with the MS driver.

 

Their GTX was also likely 24nm toggleNAND while I believe your GTX is 19nm like mine based on the first digit of the firmware. (Not that Corsair has released any info to clarify that as far as I know).

[edzar]

In the latest intel RST driver (12.6), run the Rapid Storage Technology program and go into the performance tab and disable Link State Power Management. You will likely see a boost in 4K performance. It picked up 10% on Reads and 20% on writes on my 120GB GTX.

 

In your first post you're using the built in MSAHCI driver for the harddrive controller, and in the second you are using the correct Intel RST driver that you should be using. On AMD machines you sometimes see better results with the MS driver.

 

Their GTX was also likely 24nm toggleNAND while I believe your GTX is 19nm like mine based on the first digit of the firmware. (Not that Corsair has released any info to clarify that as far as I know).

 

 

Thanks Mik101...

 

I had trouble trying to install the rapid storage and getting the gui to work. Seems a lot of people have the problem. IAStorUI has stopped working

 

I suppose it actually was working (just not the gui) and pretty well from the looks of that second screen shot of mine. I have not been able to bench that high again (close though). I probably had the "link state power management" disabled in bios.

 

i finally installed an older version and it (the gui) works.

 

I also do not understand the 2 different downloads that are offered and how to install. The 11.7.0.1013 download has a "setup.exe" so that is easy enough. But the 3.5.0.1101 does not. These are what are offered from my motherboard download page. Then there are also the floppy downloads. Pretty confusing without doing a bunch of research.

 

http://i.tinyuploads.com/MjekY3.png

[mik101]

You have the correct driver already. The enterprise driver isn't for your hardware. Sounds like you're good to go then. :D: