excellent this is gonna be awesome the prospect of putting them head to head is exciting! for the 9260 the best for ssd is adaptive read ahead, disk cache enabled, direct I/O, NCQ disabled on the card, always write back, and the highest pcie packet size that your motherboard will allow. pci-e should be clocked to the same for each card. i would suggest 105. the size of any everest test files should be large enough to dissallow cache runs, and the profiles and test sizes of files should be the same. so if you come up with some standard tests that would be great. It is going to be interesting how the various cards handle the sheer power of those acards...i agree a like stripe size should definitely be used so that we can get a good comparison of that. game loads times will be a must, but only for comparison on your system only, as the load times will be specific to your setup.
also pcmark vantage scores should be a big must as well. i think that benchmark is about the best out there for real world usage.
it is going to be hard to quantify which is actually faster in real world usage, as all three are fast as hell
also i think you should try to use the crysis warhead as a a good indicator because if it is like the original crysis it has a built in load level timer so that we get a computer score that is not subject to error. stopwatch is kinda...i dunno we are dealing with milliseconds and such! i hope the other games have built in level load timers?
this is going to be a very fun amount of testing for you! if done right this is gonna be great!
EDIT: i agree with your plans for the 9211 driver, i have noticed the same performance issues with the new driver now that you pointed it out. the newest firmware/driver combo from lsi for the 9260 will be your best bet!
Originally Posted by Computurd
excellent this is gonna be awesome the prospect of putting them head to head is exciting! for the 9260 the best for ssd is adaptive read ahead, disk cache enabled, direct I/O, NCQ disabled on the card, always write back, and the highest pcie packet size that your motherboard will allow. pci-e should be clocked to the same for each card. i would suggest 105. the size of any everest test files should be large enough to dissallow cache runs, and the profiles and test sizes of files should be the same. so if you come up with some standard tests that would be great. It is going to be interesting how the various cards handle the sheer power of those acards...i agree a like stripe size should definitely be used so that we can get a good comparison of that. game loads times will be a must, but only for comparison on your system only, as the load times will be specific to your setup.
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