Poor windows experience score with corsair force 3

**blackgold** · 07-06-12, 12:25 AM

Hey. I just reinstalled windows tonight, verified ahci was enabled vetified trim was enabled. My scores are 7.6,7.6,7.7,7.7, and 6.9 for the hd performance What settings am I missing? My pc specs are...
Gigabyte z68xp-ud3 board
I7 2600k CPU
Corsair H100 cooler
16 gb corsair vengeance ram
120 gb corsair force 3 hd
2 750 gb drives
3 160 gb velociraptor 10k drives
2 6970 vid cards
750 watt pc power and cooling psu
Thanks,
Brian

**dex71** · 07-06-12, 12:30 AM

Do you have the SATA cable plugged into one of the 6gb/sec terminals on your mb?

Sent from a Galaxy far far away

**blackgold** · 07-06-12, 12:37 AM

You beat me to a reply. I pulled the case open and verified I'm no one of the 2 6gb ports on mb pretty sure I'm using a sata 3 cable. I updated my bios to rhe latest and rescanned. Still 6.9. I read the earlier ones had issues 1122 and earlier. Mine starts with 1141. I disconnected all of the other hdds for the assessment as well to make sure they aren't counted in somehow.
Thanks,
Brian

**DJ Ms. White** · 07-06-12, 12:43 AM

You could try updating the SSD firmware. However, do that at your own risk.

That being said, I would honestly run a 3rd party benchmarking utility for the drive, and go by that.

**SapiensErus** · 07-06-12, 06:18 AM

I am using a Corsair Force III I bought about 10 months ago and it gets a 7.5

Probably not the firmware...

Pretty sure is not 100%, make sure it's SATA III?

**dex71** · 07-06-12, 06:22 AM

I'm getting a 7.8 in Windows with my Force III GT.......at 3Gb/s (my mobo is only SATA II).

**SapiensErus** · 07-06-12, 06:32 AM

Originally Posted by dex71

I'm getting a 7.8 in Windows with my Force III GT.......at 3Gb/s (my mobo is only SATA II).

Goes to show the difference in Controllers maybe?

Or perhaps I should check my Firmware; my drive is a step behind yours but on a SATA III with the appropriate cable and only 7.5. I really don't know that I'll notice a difference though.. smoking fast. I had a RAID0 but it was not noticeably faster so I parted the other Force III out to my lappy instead.

**Gumby** · 07-06-12, 06:42 AM

7.9 with a Force GT. Did you check the partition offset? Speed Up Your SSD By Correctly Aligning Your Partitions

**triggerhappy2005** · 07-06-12, 08:45 AM

Use atto benchmark to see better how it's performing.

Disk Benchmark | ATTO

**blackgold** · 07-06-12, 10:21 AM

There is a firmware upgrade available. I will try to install it again. It was having issues installing it. It looks like the 6 fb ports are Marvell. I tried both ms and intel havi drivers. Not the marvell ones. I may try those tonight also. Every health test I've done shows the health at 100%
Brian