Originally posted by Mr-Movies:

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Originally posted by omegaman7:

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I don't know how to explain it. But the MSI is the only board that streamlined the windows 7 install. When I install the OS now, I start very basic(I only have the essentials connected). And then start connecting devices one by one.

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It's not just Windows 7 it also runs faster with XP or whatever... MSI has very well designed boards or at least they used to. Like I said they were not feature rich but they do/did out performed all other boards. It could be due to their firmware setup (BIOS), VIA routing, electrical design, quality components, concepts like less is better, good drivers, or all of the above, but the bottom line is their designers must be much better then the rest.

I love Gigabyte boards but they are some of the slowest out there unfortunately.

Originally posted by omegaman7:

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I'd be very interested to know what's going on during that waiting period!

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That pause is Windows querying the hardware prior to installing their software so that they can install the proper drivers needed before installing.

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Originally posted by Estuansis:

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Would have to agree. Gigabyte basically paved the way for affordable boards that didn't suck. Many fond memories of my 965P-DS3 v1.3. Had a failed component on a v1.0 board and Gigabyte promptly set me up with a v1.3. Good boards.

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Originally posted by ddp:

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theonejrs, do you know who gave doc ty his nic?

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Originally posted by Estuansis:

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Likewise why I chose my current motherboard. Fast, reliable, and a platform I am already very familiar with. Don't actually have a thing to complain about on the board. In contrast my CPU has been less than wonderful. While a good chip, it has given me some grief.

Still waiting on a six-core to see what the chip support is like for this board.

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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Not sure about Jeff, but I think we were both discussing the 5 minute wait period at the splash screen before you install Windows Vista/7.

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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In the installer? How do you do that, surely you'd have to edit the iso of the disc and burn another?

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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Yeah it's a shame Intel switched to Sandforce rather than using their own controllers, but it has brought the continuous transfer speeds way up, and quite interesting, their SSDs still post far lower failure rates than other brands that use the same controllers. It's infuriating as it shows what's possible if other countries paid a blind bit of notice to quality. Fortunately due to the higher importance of what they do and the tolerances involved, the storage industry tend to pay a bit more attention to this than other areas of the PC hardware market, but many SSD brands, particularly OCZ have abandoned it.
Considering how often consumer-grade motherboards and graphics cards in particular fail, it's appalling really.
Considering my PC only has continuous speeds of about 160MB/s read and 35MB/s write, it's still incredibly fast having not been reformatted for a year, loads windows in seconds, and I still have about the fastest loading times for the game that's installed to it of my peers (some of which are other SSD users). Performance isn't really an issue with it apart from one area which is when downloader applications use C: for their temporary storage before writing it elsewhere - then 35MB/s can be a bottleneck when extracting stuff, and I would eventually like a bit more than 40GB, hence eyeing up the 120/180GB 330/520 series drives. Still, apart from that I'm in no pressure to remove it, and I'll certainly reuse it in one of the other machines afterwards, it's a good performing drive.

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Originally posted by theonejrs:

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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In the installer? How do you do that, surely you'd have to edit the iso of the disc and burn another?

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Sam,

Are you talking about the full screen logo? Look in the Advanced BIOS Features, near the end, and turn it off!

Russ

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Intel SSD 330 / 520

Compressible Performance                (60 GB)            (120 GB)           (180 GB)

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4 KB Random Read (IOPS)             12,000 / 15,000     22,500 / 25,000    42,000 / 50,000

4 KB Random Write (IOPS)            20,500 / 23,000     33,000 / 40,000    52,000 / 60,000

128 KB Sequential Read (MB/s)          500 / 550           500 / 550          500 / 550

128 KB Sequential Write (MB/s)         400 / 475           450 / 500          450 / 520

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