I purchased a used PC off of craigslist recently for my fiance to play games with me. The computer works fine, everything loads, no errors, no weird windows problems. However the SSD performance is abysmal.
The issue: Loading games (Such as The Division) or changing zones on WoW, or copying files to another folder, extracting zip files... all is incredibly slow. Copy/Extraction speeds are a terrible 24-30 MB/s.
Keep in mind, I have used all of these SSD's on my other PC, which is an intel i5 with a MSI Z97 Krait motherboard and they were very fast! I just wanted more space so I replaced them.
Things I've done to attempt to narrow or solve the issue:
I've replaced the new Samsung 840 SSD with an older Crucial MX100, and a Crucial MX300 (I had them laying around from my previous PC build and they worked fine) This didn't speed anything up or solve any issues. Same slow SSD performance.
Reinstalled windows fresh after a "Secure Erase" using the samsung SSD MAgician software. Fresh driver downloads (to combat any possible corrupt issues) and clean install of windows 7, followed by the standard SSD settings. Fresh game donwload, same slow SSD Performance. 24-30MB/s
I scoured every Asus website and setting I could find to make small changes to strange BIOS settings and things people could think of that worked for them, without any luck.
I made sure that the SATA ports it was using were the correct 6 Gb/s ports , not he Asmedia ones for slower performance.
I replaced the motherboard to an MSI 970A-G43 and did another fresh windows install with new drivers downloaded. Same issue, even doing bios tweaks.
Please help, I'm very confused and about to give up on my AMD purchase and go back to Intel stuff. This was my first dive into AMD since early 2000's and so far I'm not enjoying it.
Thank you all for any help I receive, I haven't been this stumped in ages!
Computer Specs:
Processor: AMD FX-8350 at 4 Ghz
Motherboard: Asus Crossfire Formula Z
Memory: 8gb 2x4 gb sticks DDR3 Corsair Vengence
Video Card: AMD Radeon R280
PSU: Corsair 750w
SSD's : Samsung 840, Crucial MX300 and MX100
The issue: Loading games (Such as The Division) or changing zones on WoW, or copying files to another folder, extracting zip files... all is incredibly slow. Copy/Extraction speeds are a terrible 24-30 MB/s.
Keep in mind, I have used all of these SSD's on my other PC, which is an intel i5 with a MSI Z97 Krait motherboard and they were very fast! I just wanted more space so I replaced them.
Things I've done to attempt to narrow or solve the issue:
I've replaced the new Samsung 840 SSD with an older Crucial MX100, and a Crucial MX300 (I had them laying around from my previous PC build and they worked fine) This didn't speed anything up or solve any issues. Same slow SSD performance.
Reinstalled windows fresh after a "Secure Erase" using the samsung SSD MAgician software. Fresh driver downloads (to combat any possible corrupt issues) and clean install of windows 7, followed by the standard SSD settings. Fresh game donwload, same slow SSD Performance. 24-30MB/s
I scoured every Asus website and setting I could find to make small changes to strange BIOS settings and things people could think of that worked for them, without any luck.
I made sure that the SATA ports it was using were the correct 6 Gb/s ports , not he Asmedia ones for slower performance.
I replaced the motherboard to an MSI 970A-G43 and did another fresh windows install with new drivers downloaded. Same issue, even doing bios tweaks.
Please help, I'm very confused and about to give up on my AMD purchase and go back to Intel stuff. This was my first dive into AMD since early 2000's and so far I'm not enjoying it.
Thank you all for any help I receive, I haven't been this stumped in ages!
Computer Specs:
Processor: AMD FX-8350 at 4 Ghz
Motherboard: Asus Crossfire Formula Z
Memory: 8gb 2x4 gb sticks DDR3 Corsair Vengence
Video Card: AMD Radeon R280
PSU: Corsair 750w
SSD's : Samsung 840, Crucial MX300 and MX100