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I just built a new machine, I'll post the specs at the end and I have just been using it for the normal web browsing etc and gaming, gaming is really good on it but its really struggling to handle normal tasks and hangs in any normal applications for no reason. I have Windows 8.1 Pro 64 bit on the SSD and I've checked the BIOS is updated and also reinstalled Windows. All the applications that are hanging are on the SSD but Task manager shows very little disk traffic and the CPU is barely going above 10% outside of games. If anyone has any tips that would be great. Thanks.

 

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Fx-8350

AsRock 970 Extreme3 R2.0

16GB Corsair Vengeance Pro

120GB Kingston SSDNow

1TB Seagate Barracuda

MSI GTX 960 2G

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Is your SSD okay? I'd check that you're still getting your usual speeds out of it.

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I have a FX-8320 and its all right, had it for about 2 years now, nothing wrong with it.

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Wow my SSD is being really slow apparently, like amazingly awfully slow. I had no idea. This is the speed test for it http://imgur.com/gallery/4rIifkX/new

 

I just ran the same test on my Barracuda and the HDD is faster than the SSD...

 

Any recommendations on the replacement SSD?

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Well at least you are getting over half your read speed.

 

Does the drive have warranty and can you claim it as a defective product.

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Wow my SSD is being really slow apparently, like amazingly awfully slow. I had no idea. This is the speed test for it http://imgur.com/gallery/4rIifkX/new

 

I just ran the same test on my Barracuda and the HDD is faster than the SSD...

 

Any recommendations on the replacement SSD?

I'd go with a good value Crucial SSD.

Also, those speeds look fine to me, but then my SSD wasn't really designed to go over 200MB/s either way.

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Well at least you are getting over half your read speed.

 

Does the drive have warranty and can you claim it as a defective product.

 

Yes its a brand new drive so that will be going back but just going to replace it with a different brand in the meantime.

 

 

I'd go with a good value Crucial SSD.

Also, those speeds look fine to me, but then my SSD wasn't really designed to go over 200MB/s either way.

 

They are slightly below my Barracuda and I have an 840 Evo in my laptop that just gave me these speeds  http://imgur.com/MCyfcW0 so I guess it was the SSD. 

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Yes its a brand new drive so that will be going back but just going to replace it with a different brand in the meantime.

 

 

 

They are slightly below my Barracuda and I have an 840 Evo in my laptop that just gave me these speeds  http://imgur.com/MCyfcW0 so I guess it was the SSD. 

Okay. I'm still not completely sure it would be the SSD, but maybe it's still being okay for sequential writes. Try benching with 50MB or 100MB samples.

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The Samsung 850 evo is pretty reasonable at the moment, at least here in the uk. Not sure where you are from, but it is only £3 to £5 more expensive atm than the Kingston SSD now. Depending on the point of purchase obviously.

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Sequential with 100MB http://imgur.com/C0DTDau

 

I can pull the 840 evo out of my laptop and run it in my PC to test ?

 

It's doing this a lot now: http://imgur.com/xzBeAVN

 

I benched it with the 840 evo in and it gave me this http://imgur.com/gYNkNiH but then did the same thing as above where it is at 100% with 0 read write for ages

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I'm not convinced this is an SSD issue anymore 

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I have the same terrible Kingston V300 SSD, and I have no such problems.

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Did you install the chipset and SATA drivers for your motherboard?

That is one of the things I would look in to at this point.

 

Also, make sure, in the BIOS, the SATA ports are set to AHCI Mode, and NOT IDE Mode.

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I have the same terrible Kingston V300 SSD, and I have no such problems.

Why are you saying that V300 is terrible? I know that it's not 840 evo, but it isn't bad.

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Why are you saying that V300 is terrible? I know that it's not 840 evo, but it isn't bad.

It actually is.  Its read/write speeds are really terrible.  Like 150/130

 

There was a bait and switch that Kingston did.  They sent out review samples to reviews which were reviewed as good.  They later changed the NAND flash used, and it scores VERY poorly.

 

Everything is super snappy.  Boot and shutdown times are blazing fast so it works well for me.  The slow speeds really only matter for large file transfers, which I don't do often at all.  I just don't support this kind of tactic.  I enjoy mine, it works well enough, I'm just really against that kind of deception, and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

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Did you install the chipset and SATA drivers for your motherboard?

That is one of the things I would look in to at this point.

 

Also, make sure, in the BIOS, the SATA ports are set to AHCI Mode, and NOT IDE Mode.

 

I changed it over and it gets a bit snappier but I have looked for the drivers for the chipset and SATA controller on AsRocks website and can't find a thing.

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It actually is. Its read/write speeds are really terrible. Like 150/130

There was a bait and switch that Kingston did. They sent out review samples to reviews which were reviewed as good. They later changed the NAND flash used, and it scores VERY poorly.

Everything is super snappy. Boot and shutdown times are blazing fast so it works well for me. The slow speeds really only matter for large file transfers, which I don't do often at all. I just don't support this kind of tactic. I enjoy mine, it works well enough, I'm just really against that kind of deception, and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

I didn't know that.

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Core Parking? AMD hotfixes? (not sure if the hot fixes even really apply anymore)

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It's parking cores a lot but I don't know how to disable it, tried a registry hack that was floating around but it didn't fix it

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As @Faceman mentioned, Kingston quietly changed the NAND flash chips on the more recent V300 SSD's.

The switch took place back in 2014 -- http://www.anandtech.com/show/7763/an-update-to-kingston-ssdnow-v300-a-switch-to-slower-micron-nand

 

Since you built your system recently, I am assuming you got one of the "updated" V300's.

 

(I got my own V300 back in early 2013 so I didn't get affected :ph34r:)

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Since switching to AHCI and installing some more chipset drivers it's got better but is there a way to stop parking cores?

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As @Faceman mentioned, Kingston quietly changed the NAND flash chips on the more recent V300 SSD's.

The switch took place back in 2014 -- http://www.anandtech.com/show/7763/an-update-to-kingston-ssdnow-v300-a-switch-to-slower-micron-nand

Since you built your system recently, I am assuming you got one of the "updated" V300's.

(I got my own V300 back in early 2013 so I didn't get affected :ph34r:)

My V300 is from my previous build. I got it in 2013 or 2012.

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