LSI 9211-8i versus LSI 9260-8i versus Areca 1231ML-2G

[trans am]

This has been beaten to death but those CM benchies do not show anything but your cache speed, which doesn't really matter. It would show you the same thing with one 5400rpm HDD.

okay I realize that but since that was the only bench I ever used on this card and wanted to compare to the AMD rig and the fact that I have no idea what I am doing in iometer.

after that last ss I went back into services and shut off superfetch again. Not sure why but I benched with sf and without and the better one was with it on. but I went back and tried again and this time my 4k improved with it disabled. .



i'll run as ssd bench next since thats easy.

okay here's a REAL test:

atto with same settings as last cdm in this post:

using x16 (4x slot)


using x8 / x8


im gonna run a 3dmark quick on x16 and x8 to see the changes.


*****3dmark2006 16x/4x was 15893 no oc

x8/x8 was 15805

i think its safe to say i'm better off with x8/x8 rather than x16/x4
I'm very surprised. I thought for sure the vga hit would be much harder but the 9260-4i seems to use the bandwidth the best on this setup.