Previously posted on my ANS-9010 review, but I created a new thread as this might be a wider issue than I thought.
I recently moved from Socket-775 to Socket-1366 and I discovered something very disappointing: the ICH10 on my X58 board was 10-35% slower (depending on the application) than the ICH10 implementation on my P45 board.
I replaced my trusty Asus P5Q-Deluxe (P45/ICH10R) with an Asus P6T vanilla (mainly due to the S775 holes, as I didn't want to take apart my watercooling setup). My E8400 was replaced by an i7 965 and my 2x2Gb Axerams by 3x1Gb Crucial 1333 DIMMs.
Everything else remains the same (Asus 280GTX, Corsair HX620, Acard ANS-9010 w/ 20Gb of DDR2, etc.)
Also, I did a fresh install of the OS I was using (Vista Ultimate SP1 x64) and used the same RAID drivers (8.7.0.1007) and same IMSM (8.7) I was using up to now.
I connected the ANS-9010's two SATA cables on ports 0+1 (same as in my P5Q-Dlx) and set up a RAID0 with 128Kb stripes, from scratch.
These are my findings
Old ICH10 RAID0 score - Asus P5Q Deluxe (BIOS 1406)
New ICH10 RAID0 score - Asus P6T (BIOS 0202)
At this point, I replaced all SATA cables, removed my DVDRW and my Samsung SSD storage drive, and moved the ANS-9010's second SATA cable from SATA port1 to SATA port2 on the motherboard (located on a different "pair" of SATA ports).
The results showed degraded performance again:
Old ICH10 RAID0 score - Asus P5Q Deluxe (BIOS 1406)
New ICH10 RAID0 score - Asus P6T (BIOS 0202)
I am currently suspecting one of the following:
- Bad ICH10 implementation (generally) on the X58 chipset, or
- Bad ICH10 implementation (specifically) on Asus boards with the X58 chipset, or
- Bad ICH10 implementation (even more specifically) on the Asus P6T board, or
- User error - Something obvious (or not) that I am forgetting, and yes, all write caching options are on, from DevMan and IMSM.
So any feedback, hints, suggestions, appreciated. Especially from owners of X58 boards and multiple SSD RAID0 arrays
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