The load times were generally faster on the SSD drive and seem to have a larger performance gap as we moved from Crysis to Crysis 2. I timed the loading of the application and the loading of a new game. may have to tweak that overclock 😉Įdit Caveat: Note you will have to factor in the fact that the SSD benchmark is on a clean install Windows 7 whilst the ATA Drive have been running for a while, but even so I have been using the SSD setup over the past few weeks since writing this review and start up is still very quick with only a few seconds between clicking login and being able to use the computer 🙂 Crysis The windows startup time is now 4 times faster with the SSD drive, launching to a working desktop in less than 25 seconds, (including typing my password!) Windows Experience Score This was identified as the time at which the Gadgets appeared on the desktop. The benchmark recorded the time from when windows started loading after the POST screen, until a working desktop was available. This benchmark recorded the total time to startup the PC on the 7200RPM 1TB drive vs the SSD. The machine is running Windows 7 – 64bit, plus all the services and software one would expect, including: Here is the compression benchmark, so clearly the drive is not being pushed very hard. The overall score is comparable with the results from the guru 3d review with the obvious difference being the Sequential Read maxing out at 263Mb/s. This is connected via the on board SATA II Connection. The SSD drive in question is a Corsair Force GT 120GB.įull specs and details can be found here on guru3D MSi R6850 Storm II 1G OC (R6850 PM2DIGD5)Ĭorsair Force GT 120GB, (1.3.3 firmware on SATA II in AHCI mode) When attempting to research whether I needed an add-on SATA 3 card I was unable to find any real world reviews of this type of upgrade, so this review is designed to fill this gap.Ĭore 2 Duo E8400 3.0Ghz, running overclocked 4.0Ghz.ĤGB (2x2GB) Corsair CM2X2048-8500C5C (1066Mhz) This meant purchasing a current SATA 3 drive and running it connected via the on-board SATA 2 connection. I was recently looking to purchase a SSD drive as an upgrade for my old socket 775 Core 2 Duo machine to keep it alive a bit longer. This benchmark and review is to show what performance differences you can expect when you try to run a SATA 3 SSD on older hardware that only supports SATA II (300 Mb/s) connections.

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