Inf drivers downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?DwnldID=22586
Intel me firmware update downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=22596
Intel management engine downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=22596
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Inf drivers downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?DwnldID=22586
Intel me firmware update downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=22596
Intel management engine downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=22596
Thanks but the last two URLs are the same??
Dam phone lol....Quote:
Originally Posted by Mehta23
http://www.overclock.net/t/1248928/a...dated-4-22/760
All the latest drivers and firmwares can be found here :rolleyes:
Thanks. Before using the last link you sent, boot has decreased to 21 seconds from pushing the button!
edit: not really boot up/SSD related, but do I still need Realtek drivers for sound if I already have NVIDIA ones?
Interesting, I thought Windows Update would deal with that sort of stuff!
Did you use the motherboard installation disk on the first time (when boot time was normal), but not the second time?
No windows update genrally updates drivers it installs, so if you then replace the ms drivers with manufacturer ones it tends to ignore them. (There are exceptions, but as a genral rule they are not updated. ) windows update is generally behind the curve for drivers.Quote:
Originally Posted by watercooled
:) I have Windows 8 installed first time on my systems and it already installed MS drivers for hardware it has detected. I wouldn't use or rely on Windows update for drivers as I once tried it on work laptop and it messed up the system badly I ended up doing whole clean install again. Windows update will download drivers but they are not the latest one and out of date. Hence it is recommended to download drivers such as Intel Chipset, Management engine, etc from Intel and video from Intel, NVIDIA or AMD and not from motherboard manufacturer as they don't tend to keep it up to date except the bios.
It's something I've generally done myself as I like to check and manually install updates/drivers/etc anyway, but it's something I'll be watching more closely!
Never used it :-P usually get drivers off the Asus websiteQuote:
Originally Posted by watercooled
I was wondering if you might have missed out a driver on the second run, causing the problems?
I don't think so... Although I know this time round I couldn't install some drivers.. Maybe cos I had my graphics card installed? (I think they were drivers for vga)
Edit: I wasn't able to do that on the previous... I forgot that this is the third install of windows I've used in total :-P
Someone mentioned it could be the result of fragmentation?
Also it might be a good idea to mention that I was playing Gta online with a friend today... His was installed onto a Seagate hard drive and loaded up everything miles faster than mine on my ssd! So I'm getting kinda worried that my ssd is giving worse performance than a mechanical hard drive
I've also swapped the sata cable although I haven't benchmark ed it or timed another boot.
On an extra note have you left the system to idle to allow the ssd to garbage collect and trim?
Well I left it for an hour this morning ( I have realised I hardly ever leave it ideling :S) but how long do you think I should be leaving it for?
*Never* defragment an SSD, and no, fragmentation will have no impact on one. The SSD controller intentionally 'fragments' data all over the driver for wear levelling, etc. Have you been defragmenting the drive at all? That can certainly impact performance.
A HDD system loading a game faster could also be explained by caching, e.g. had he been playing the game earlier without rebooting? Also, does he have a faster system than you - IO might not be the bottleneck for game loading time, especially since a lot of games are mostly large sequential reads which HDDs are generally OK with.
On HDD installs, Windows 7 automatically schedule a disk defragmentation to run daily or weekly I think by default but I am not sure for SSD. Check if your disk defragmentation has been disabled not to run on schedule and check task scheduler under Microsoft -> Windows -> defrag and disable that task.