790i bios help

[the big dill]

hi everybody, i recently built my computer in july,

and i just wanted to make sure everything is working fine because i expected better than what i got...

here are my specs...

xfx 790i

c2q q9450

xfx 9800gtx

wd velociraptor

silverstone strider 750 watt

and finally the apevia black x cruiser case.

now when i was choosing my parts it was about 1 month before i bought it, i read and saw reviews that with the 790i you can know if everything is working fine, or it will tell you if everything is wokring properly...

now the other question is, i reinstalled windows vista ultimate a couple of times to test hdd and i wasent satisfied with the speeds... when i first installed vista ultimate it took about 30-40 mins (on the VELOCIRAPTOR) even though it was showing the normal speeds compared with the bench marks using hd tach. then in a week or so i changed the sata port on the mother board and reinstalled windows and it worked much faster like 20 min install and 20 sec start up but when i checked hd tach, it showed 2 times slower speeds than the original benchmarks found online even though it worked faster for me...

could it be because somehow i set it to be as a hard drive for start up or something like that????

[gwai lo]

uh....

Do you have a HDTach shot? Or can you just list the burst and average STR?

[the big dill]

sure let me run the test again...

[the big dill]

random access, 7.5ms

cpu utilization 4%

average read: 108.1 MB/s

Burst 235.7MB/s

but right now the hard drive is not plugged in to the sata port thats working fast...

and BTW the sata port that was working fast is all by itself away from the other ones above the pci express slot (coloured in red instead of the regular black)

[the big dill]

sorry about the last pic...

[gwai lo]

Looks fine.

[the big dill]

no but this is when its plugged into the port that makes it slower in the way i see it.. like start up is longer and so on...

[gwai lo]

I have no idea, sounds like placebo effect to me then.

TR's numbers, even though it is the smaller 150GB Raptor, you're still in the ballpark..and the difference between the two is not THAT big.

http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/15363/12

Older revision of the drive, but again..the differences between the two is not that large.

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3303

Finally, I refer you to SR:

http://www.storagereview.com/php/benchmark...60&devCnt=2

I'm sure I can find plenty of HD Tach shots from [H], AT, XS, and OCF with similar numbers..