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you do ? what drive is it?

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Just a Western Digital 32mb cache 1tb green drive. Take it by your reaction I have an erroneous score?

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Well I have a 32 meg 500 gig Samsung F3 which is meant to be one of the fastest sata II drives on the mkt and I score 5.9

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lol, well I have just rerun the test after my last post and got the same scores. Maybe a driver related issue? It's an AMD 880 chipset.

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I know it doesn't prove anything because If I was sad enough I could have photo-shopped it but here's a screen shot.

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http://www.sevenforums.com/performan...-your-wei.html

which end mine or yours? have a look at the first few pages.

I think the only time other than in your case I have seen or heard of anyone getting anywhere near 7 let alone 7.5 on a standard hdd is with SSD. Incidentally do you have write caching enabled?

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Yep, I have a WD velocithingy and mine is 5.9 as well :(

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http://www.overclock.net/5297164-post6.html have a look at this guys for example running a velociraptor

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the F3s are a very fast drive for standard SataIIs most of my drives are F3s

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I asked OCZ about that. They said the new Sandforce chipset doesn't suffer from the problems that needed that workaround, so I installed Win 7 straight to the SSD, it has a three year warranty so I'm not worried. So far Win 7 appears to be loading twice as fast and programs are launching noticeably quicker (Photoshop takes eight seconds).

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Here's my performance chart.

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My end naturally. The only explanation I can think of for such a high score. Have googled a bit myself and have seen some evidence of people getting as high as 6.6 without ssd drives but they are high end units and certainly not green drives like mine lol.

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what are your actual system specs?

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mines ok for my system I think

7.6
7.6
7.5
7.5
5.9

i7 920@3.8 ati 4870 and samsung f3 500 gig 32 meg cache main hdd

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Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.00GHz (Socket 775) (1333FSB) Processor
Asus P5E-VM HDMI iG35 Socket 775 Motherboard
Corsair XMS2 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C5 800MHz Dual Channel Kit
Corsair XMS2 2GB (2x512GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C5 800MHz Dual Channel Kit

MSI GeForce 9600GT 512MB Overclocked PCI-E

OCZ 50GB Vertex 2 Series SATA-II Solid State SSD 2.5" Drive
1TB Seagate Barracuda ST31000528AS 3.5" SATA II Hard Drive
500GB Seagate Barracuda SATA2 32MB ST3500320AS 7200RPM

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My scores are from an AMD Athlon II 630 Quad core at stock speed 2.8Ghz and an ATi 5750 and Crucial 2x2GB DDR3 1333 Ballistix memory

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The SSD I bought, OCZ 50GB Vertex 2 Series is on offer today on Aria for £131.59 inc. VAT. £20 less than I paid last week (sigh!) -
http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/...roductId=40038