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Well I got to school at RIT, so I suppose Henrietta would be the right answer heh heh.

Might be too early ask but now that registration is up we may as well start planning! Who here will be heading down to Boston for PAX East 2011 and if so how would you guys feel about a meetup of some sort? I'd be coming in from Rochester, NY.

I'm not sure what it could possibly be. What drivers are you using? Did you perform any tweaks?

Go for the faster memory though that much seems like overkill for just about anything. Even the most insane of power users will struggle to use 6GB as others have said.

The board you're looking for the is the Crosshair IV EXTREME not Formula, the Formula will only do Crossfire as others have said. The Extreme if I recall is slightly more expensive and has a few extra features. I don't think the Extreme is out yet but if you plan on getting it, know that it is an Extended ATX form-factor motherboard and plan accordingly, make sure it fits in your computer case. Here is a preview of said board. As for RAM, I'm a big fan of Patriot RAM... But all the brands others have mentioned will work with your board, just remember that AMD only supports dual-channel so go for TWO sticks (4GB is probably the sweet spot though that's your choice). The Crosshair boards are enthusiast boards so you should have no problem setting them up to work with DDR3 2000 and beyond.

Sadly no, only my AMD desktop and an atom netbook .

Would reformatting help matters? I suppose I could just live with it and see if what I was told about CDM holds true.

I was told at the Mushkin forums not to use AMD's AHCI drivers, perhaps that is part of the issue? I will see if results vary now that I have geneirc MS drivers. 320A is the latest firmware so nothing to do there. I was also told that Crystal Disk Mark temporarily degrades write performance if run more than 2 times, I wasn't aware of this.

Bizarre... Seems like such a wide margin. Firmware sounds like a good place to look. I have 320A. I'll investigate.

Fair enough, remade the PF. However, doesn't a 20MB/s difference in 4K and 35MB/s or so in 512K and Seq seem like a little much in comparison to OCC's own tests? I realize I'm not on a brand new W7 install and many of my specs are different from the test system OCC used but that seems like a fairly large margin. You can correct me if I'm wrong though.

This is a new 7 install, maybe a few days old at most. AHCI is enabled in the BIOS.

EDIT: This is a Callisto Deluxe, I accidentally forgot to add that to the thread title. I'm experiencing what I think to be extremely mediocre performance on my new Callisto. Here's some tidbits about my setup and about tweaks I had performed on my OS. I doubt they should have any impact on my performance: - No indexing - No hibernation - No page file (on the entire system) - No system restore The SSD has Windows 7 x64 installed on it and some other stuff that I think should have the boost in speed from the SSD such as my productivity software and Steam. I also have a 500GB Caviar Black as a data drive. Here is the latest CrystalMark bench I did and it's terrible in comparison to OCC's own benchmarks. My writes seem kind of mediocre though I could just be paranoid. Reads seem OK, 4K seems kind of low also but I dunno. What do you guys think? EDIT: Added an HDTune 2.55 bench, it looks a little wonky.

I have one of these and the benchies are downright horrible in comparison. My writes were in the 60s on CrystalMark for example.

The anticipation is killing me.

Can't wait to find out who the winners are.