I just bought crucial M4 128 GB. Updated to 000F and installed Windows7 64 bit on it. All the updates are installed and following is what I did
1) In the bios I disable IDE prefetch.
2) In Windows I disabled prefetch and superfetch. Disabled defrag, disdable HDD shutdown
 
I did the benchmark and getting the following

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CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1 x64 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo
                           Crystal Dew World :
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

           Sequential Read :   261.002 MB/s
          Sequential Write :   174.501 MB/s
         Random Read 512KB :   226.889 MB/s
        Random Write 512KB :   175.487 MB/s
    Random Read 4KB (QD=1) :    27.379 MB/s [  6684.4 IOPS]
   Random Write 4KB (QD=1) :    74.294 MB/s [ 18138.3 IOPS]
   Random Read 4KB (QD=32) :    29.658 MB/s [  7240.8 IOPS]
  Random Write 4KB (QD=32) :    98.855 MB/s [ 24134.4 IOPS]

  Test : 1000 MB [C: 14.6% (17.4/119.1 GB)] (x5)
  Date : 2012/04/14 9:18:39
    OS : Windows 7 Home Premium Edition [6.1 Build 7600] (x64)

Is this acceptable? Why is it so low. The SSD is Crucial M4 and 128GB connected directly to mother board.
 
Any help will be appreciated
 
 

Welcome to the EVGA forums
 
Such a old and outdated MB/Chipset does not support all the advanced features of the M4 SATAIII SSD
 
Your MB does not support SATAIII and your BIOS does not have a AHCI option.
 
For your mb, the performance test is showing about the correct numbers.
For how your running it, the numbers are really quite good bro 

Thanks for the quick reply
 
I just plugged it in nothing more (disabled prefetch in bios) . Do you think there is value in getting a raid card and getting something more out of this motherboard (I have a ASUS U3S6 that seem to give USB3 and SATA6, though I am sure with add in card it wont get the full speed)

For the 680i MB thats about as good as its going to get
 
Using a Sata6 MB and a BIOS that supports AHCI will bring the performance levels much much higher.
 
 

your speeds are as good as they are going to get with that MB

Thanks for the replies.
 
I have one more question, the forum mentions that I should change the Nvidia controller to default IDE controller to get the benefit of TRIM. I tried to but seem to cannnot.
 
1) The advice is to goto davice manager and then to storage controllers. I see Nvidia SATA controller (3 of them). I right click and click "Update driver". As per the quidlines, I should see "Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller" from Microsoft. I donot. There is no driver
2) On the IDE ATA/ATAPI controller part (in device manager as well) I see "standard dual channel PCI IDE controller". In that one when I click update driver, the IDE driver shows up.
 
So the computer has this driver but not letting me put it on nvidia SATA driver. any help will be appreciated.
 
 

oaeser


Thanks for the replies.

I have one more question, the forum mentions that I should change the Nvidia controller to default IDE controller to get the benefit of TRIM. I tried to but seem to cannnot.

1) The advice is to goto davice manager and then to storage controllers. I see Nvidia SATA controller (3 of them). I right click and click "Update driver". As per the quidlines, I should see "Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller" from Microsoft. I donot. There is no driver
2) On the IDE ATA/ATAPI controller part (in device manager as well) I see "standard dual channel PCI IDE controller". In that one when I click update driver, the IDE driver shows up.

So the computer has this driver but not letting me put it on nvidia SATA driver. any help will be appreciated.

You will need to post your complete hardware specs for the answer
Most likely its just not supported on such an old chipset -or- you "might" have to switch to another set of ports.
 
No way to tell without the exact MB specs and what BIOS you are running it on.....

look at your disk drives in device manager, do they say they are a scsi disk device? if so then you are running the windows drivers. 

Sooooo I went ahead and tested with a U3S5 Asus card. Following is the result. Seems better
 
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CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1 x64 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo
                           Crystal Dew World :
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

           Sequential Read :   389.564 MB/s
          Sequential Write :   172.947 MB/s
         Random Read 512KB :   334.263 MB/s
        Random Write 512KB :   169.070 MB/s
    Random Read 4KB (QD=1) :    27.575 MB/s [  6732.1 IOPS]
   Random Write 4KB (QD=1) :    65.384 MB/s [ 15962.8 IOPS]
   Random Read 4KB (QD=32) :   185.943 MB/s [ 45396.2 IOPS]
  Random Write 4KB (QD=32) :   122.744 MB/s [ 29966.8 IOPS]

  Test : 1000 MB [C: 29.0% (34.6/119.1 GB)] (x5)
  Date : 2012/04/24 20:00:30
    OS : Windows 7 Home Premium Edition SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64)
I think it was worth the hassle. Note that my window Disk score went from 7.5 to 7.9....
 

Wow nice results! This helped a bit thank you Oaeser.
 
Btw which bios did you use? P33 or an older one (I'm not sure if it matters tho -_- lol)