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e-money

We need to keep this thread going guy's so maybe we'll get a bios update like the x58 guys did please EVGA update my raid rom!

Unfortunately the X58 update did nothing for the Sata III raid control. I have to Mushkin Enhanced Chronos 120g in Raid 0 and still only get 450 MBS reads when I should be getting over a gig.  

 
The Sata 3 ports are marvel and not intel. You will never see more then 450MB/s on that because it uses a pci 1x lane to transfer to the CPU. Both ports TOGETHER are limited to 5gb/s unlike normal Sata 3 at 6gb/s. You would be better off with both of them in RAID 0 on the intel ports imo.

@Crusheddream,
 
I am not that familiar with what Intel posts on their download pages (I never seem to be able to find what I am looking for anyway), but do they post BETAs?

loveha

Maybe if we complain enough again, something will get done like last time.
Although, we are at the limits of OROM space, so I am not going to hold my breath.

 
haha, I wish it didn't have to come to complaints man. I think all this tech stuff should be supported for AT LEAST 10 years after it's first day of release. I know a lot of us don't have all this crap for that long, and after 5 or so years they could maybe drop it or charge a few bux, BUT, don't leave us old tech's in the dust bin...

Have been running the new mod for a couple days now, everything is working well...
 
I'm still not sure about Trim being supported yet on RAID but I enjoy having the most updated drivers / bios / rom's so I appreciate the effort of putting this together for us...
 
 

Anyone try this mod bios on an E759? Also anyone point to latest drivers to correspond to this bios's 11.5 orom release?
 
Thanks.
 
So tempted!
 

Updated original post (http://forums.evga.com/fb.ashx?m=1605686) with links to modded BIOSes containing latest Intel and JMicron RAID ROMs.

henryvits

Arctucas

@henryvits,

I hate to be a bother, but I was wondering if you could mod the E770 (Classified 3) BIOS with the Intel OROM 11.2.0.1527 that can be found here:
http://www.win-lite.de/wb...22cbe8d3f9280b1b188989

Just for you:

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B1_E2jaFAbT2VDVTSHZ6Y2hsQUk

;)

Thank you, I appreciate it.

I was reading a thread on G3D and came across this post:
http://forums.guru3d.com/...73038&postcount=51
which suggests that TRIM on RAID0 is possible, using the correct combination of IRST driver and RAID ROM.
 
Perhaps if we could get modded BIOS, those of using running RAID0 arrays under Windows 7 could enjoy the benfits of TRIM.

I just now noticed that henryvits had updated the modded BIOS with the 11.5.0.1414 OROM.
 
Thank you henryvits.
 
I now have the 11.5.0.1414 OROM and the 11.5.0.1207 IRST installed.
 
I hope I see improved performance on my RAID0 array due to TRIM.

Although I truly appreciate the modded BIOS, it appears that all the work to enable TRIM for RAID0 is for naught.
 
It appears to work for Z77 boards, but neither X58 nor 6-series motherboards have the capability.
 
I do hope future IRST drivers will enable it, but I honestly do not believe Intel is at all interested in further development for an EOL chipset.

Arctucas

Although I truly appreciate the modded BIOS, it appears that all the work to enable TRIM for RAID0 is for naught.

It appears to work for Z77 boards, but neither X58 nor 6-series motherboards have the capability.

I do hope future IRST drivers will enable it, but I honestly do not believe Intel is at all interested in further development for an EOL chipset.

 
I stand corrected. You are right according to various sources it only works for Z77 boards.
 
Link: http://www.win-lite.de/wbb/board195-windows-7/board198-win7-treiber/3141-intel-r-rapid-storage-technologie-aktuell-rst-v11-5-0-1207-whql-bzw-rste-v3-2-0-1126-whql/index20.html#post152248
 
 
But still better performance I noticed on my single SSD. My mechanical raid 5 array wasnt much better though if at all..

henryvits

Updated original post (http://forums.evga.com/fb.ashx?m=1605686) with links to modded BIOSes containing latest Intel RAID ROM 11.5.0.1582.

Thank you.

mrmuiz

There is also an AHCI option rom, is there any chance i can update this as well?

Are you talking about the Intel AHCI Option ROM 1.20E? If so, we have tried to integrate this into our BIOS before, but never with 100% success. Unfortunately, the EVGA X58 BIOS uses a Phoenix AHCI ROM, which is unique to Award-based legacy (non-UEFI) BIOSes. That being said, it is possible to replace it with the one from Intel, but after doing so, setting the BIOS to AHCI instead of IDE or RAID will then fail to detect any hard drives or optical drives. The workaround is to simply set the BIOS to RAID. This will still let you use single or multiple hard drives as stand-alones (not in a RAID array). Doing this will basically not invoke the AHCI ROM at all, which shaves off a couple of seconds of boot time.
 
I am currently using a modified version of my BIOS posted here with the addition of the latest available Intel AHCI ROM 1.20E0027 as well as the latest Realtek PXE ROM 2.48. If anyone is interested in trying this, let me know and I'll upload a version for all boards as a separate download.

Updated original post (http://forums.evga.com/fb.ashx?m=1605686) with links to modded BIOSes containing latest Realtek PXE ROM 2.48 in addition to the already updated RAID ROMs.

where we can find the latest driver ? the latest one looks like 10.8 at intels website, shall i go for the enterprise version ?