Gigabyte X58A-UD7

[Deanzo]

Hey Supershanks,

Back home after being away for like 3 weeks, and just getting back to testing.

Do you have any issues running 4G uncore ?
For the life of me I can't get it to run, on the F3K bios (it fixed the 3570 being picked up wrong)
Tried another cpu and two other sets of ram, all known to be good for it.

 

[Supershanks]

Hi Deanzo,
Have mainly been running at x8 ram multi, so not really pushed uncore that hard. Did 4hhz here 4.2Ghz 21x200 Ram x10 2,000 9-9-9-27 but for 24/7 thought 1.58v vtt in what I thoght was a low vtt chip was a bit heavy.

managed to get 4.4Ghz stable the other day was on my mind to try 2k ram again, will give it a whirl later.

 

[MIAHALLEN]

I don't think Deanzo is interested in stability...I think he just wants to know if it works at all. Can you just do a quick check and see if you can get into Windows with a higher uncore?

 

[Supershanks]

Max I got to was 4060. As I said was on 4.4Ghz stable. So started from there at x10 ram multi 20x uncore = 4200, No chance.
Came down to 203 BCLk giving 4060 uncore before i could boot.

 

[Deanzo]

Thanks mate, what bios was that with ?
May try some of the other beta ones, as it's still a no go for me.

 

[Supershanks]

Same as you F3K.

 

[Deanzo]

Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB SATA3 6Gb Hard Drive

Seagate was kind enough to send me their top of the line HDD. The Barracuda XT 2TB, that comes with 4 platters, 64MB of cache, 7200 RPM and a sustained data rate of 138 MB/s
Full list of spec's form their website below.

Specifications
Model Number -------------- ST32000641AS
Interface --------------------- SATA 6Gb/s
Cache ------------------------- 64MB
Capacity ---------------------- 2 TB
Areal density (avg) --------- 347 Gbits/inch2
Guaranteed Sectors -------- 3,907,029,168
Physical
Height (max) ---------------- 26.1 mm (1.028 inches)
Width (max) ----------------- 101.6 mm (4.0 inches)
Length (max) ---------------- 146.99 mm (5.787 inches)
Weight (typical) ------------- 700 grams (1.543 pounds)
Performance
Spindle Speed ------------------ 7200 rpm
Sustained data transfer rate - 138 null
Average latency ---------------- 4.16 msec
Random read seek time ------- 8.5 msec
Random write seek time ------ 9.5 msec
null ------------------------------- 600 null
Reliability
MTBF --------------------------- 750,000 hours
Annual Failure Rate ---------- 0.34
Unrecoverable read errors ---- 1 in 10^14
Power
12V start max current ------- 2.8 amps
Average idle current --------- 6.39 watts
Eevironment
Ambient Temperature
Operating ------------------- 5 to60 degrees C
Nonoperating --------------- -40 to70 degrees C
Maximum operating temperature change ----- 20 degrees C per hour
Maximum nonoperating temperature change -- 30 degrees C per hour
Shock
Operating Shock (max) ------ 63 Gs null 2 msec
Nonoperating Shock (max) --- 300 Gs null 2 msec
Acoustics
Acoustics (Idle Volume) ------ 2.8 bels
Acoustics (Seek Volume) ----- 3.2 bels



I started out wanting to see what gains there would be with the new Marvell SE9128 high speed interface over the standard ICH10 using one of these new drives.
To my surprise it's virtually non-existant. So I changed tact and compared it to one of it's predecessors, unfortumately I no longer have any 7200.11 drives so I'm using an older Barracuda 7200.10 320Gb HDD.

I'll list 3 set's of numbers, the XT on both the Marvell's and Intel's controllers. As well as the 7200.10 on the ICH10.
I also made a 320Gb partition on the XT and re-ran some of the tests just for laughs.

All testing was done on a clean install of Win7 64bit, ATI drivers 9:12.
No special tweaks or optimisations of any kind have been used. Just a standard install how the majority of end users would do it.

Benchmarks used:
ATTO Disk Benchmark
HD Tune Pro
CrystalDiskMark
HD Tach

These results are only really comparable to each other, but they will give you and indication of the variance to expect.

ATTO Benchmark

HD Tune Pro

 

[Deanzo]

CrystalDiskMark

HD Tach