The PCMark05 results aren’t bad, but they’re definitely lower than I expected, especially with Windows installed.
The blue bordered results are booting off the RevoDrive with Windows 7 Pro 64bit installed on it, along with updates and drivers. The pink bordered results are booting off the Vertex 3 and running the tests on the RevoDrive when it is totally empty. On the low end system I will be running the complete PCMark05 suite as I am trying to improve my current 4th place position with the 3800+ single core CPU. ATTO Disk Benchmark, at queue depths of 4 and 10.On the high end system I will be testing the following benchmarks: OCZ Agility 3 120GB SSD used as OS/boot drive.2x512MB sticks of Crucial Ballistix (D9) RAM.
That said top end GPUs suffer only a 1-4% performance when forced into 8x mode, not bad at all really. An end user has hacked together some Linux drivers, but I have been unable to make them work.īeing a PCIe device some motherboards that only have two PCIe slots will switch to running both slots at 8x, the drop from 16x to 8x will put a handicap on the GPU performance.
No official drivers exist for any other OS. Even more importantly drivers are only available for Windows 7. When it comes to installing windows there is an important note: Drivers are required to allow Windows 7 to see the drive. Also because I’ve been trying to get a first place PCMark05 result with the low end CPU for a while and I think the RevoDrive 3 X2 might be just the ticket. The majority of the testing is going to be done on the high end box, the low end one is included to test how well the RevoDrive 3 can do when it has very little CPU power to back it up. I will be using a pair of systems to test the RevoDrive 3 X2 240GB SSD, the first is a fairly high end system and the second is a rather distinctly low end system.