Well it's good then that I didn't flash that 1.2e ahci module. Read reports that it had issues. So there is not anything newer than than 1.07.10 then. Anyhow I tried the 11.6 trim modded for ich10r and am having stability issues when raid is turned on playing skyrim I get hard locks randomly loading new levels. Not sure if it's my overclock or driver corruption or what. Never happened before. Seems to go away when raid is turned off. Installed 11.2 rom and driver and testing for stability. If it happens again then I can assume it's not the mod. Time will tell if its corruption in the raid cache. Keep you old x58 timers posted..

hi henryvits thank you again for the new updates.

beekermartin
I am sorry if I shouldn't be asking this here but I am curious.  I am doing a fresh install of Windows 7.  I installed the Intel RST that is listed in the driver section for my mobo.  Is there any reason why I should be installing a different version?  Sorry for my ignorance but I "assumed" the driver section would have the most important and recent drivers.   

It is recommended you use a driver set that matches the branch number of the orom such that if your bios has 13.xxxx rom you should use the corresponding 13.xxxx driver as intel has them optimized to work best that way. Also it is rumored that 12.x and 13.x roms are optimized for newer chipsets like z87x as opposed to x58. Not that it won't work. Probably will and you can even use a newer driver set than your orom if you want. For instance I'm using the trim modded 11.6 rom with the 12.9 driver as my gut is telling me that it feels smoother and less buggy. Wish there was a modded 13.x rom but beggars can't be choosy I guess..

beekermartin
I am using the latest bios 83.  I installed the Intel RST that was listed in my motherboard software downloads.  
 
Is that fine or should I look further into this?  

If your using the latest 'mod' bios modded with latest intel raid firmware then you should use a corresponding driver set. If your running solid state disks in raid and you want trim then your going to have to flash one of the trim compatible firmwares. Not sure if Henry has added that to his modded list of bios files.

I did some research and it appears Trim isn't available for X58 chipsets.  Maybe there is modded software that makes it work but I am not an expert at this and don't want to attempt it.  
 
My SSD drives are known for having overly aggressive garbage collection.  That is good enough for me.  
 
 

I ended up at the same place dmoheban did. 11.6 trim modded rom and 12.9 drivers. I also agree with his description that it just feels better.

beekermartin

dmoheban

beekermartin
I did some research and it appears Trim isn't available for X58 chipsets.  Maybe there is modded software that makes it work but I am not an expert at this and don't want to attempt it.   My SSD drives are known for having overly aggressive garbage collection.  That is good enough for me.    

Not officially no it isn't. But someone modded the 11.6 raid rom to turn it on. I can attest that it works. If only Intel would support hardware that's more than a few years old we wouldn't have to use mods. Anyhow do what you want but be careful with those 13.x roms running on X58 as those are just as much official as the 11.6 trim mod raid firmware.

I just reinstalled windows and installed the drivers listed in the motherboard section.  All I installed was the chipset drivers and Intel RST.  I didn't install any raid drivers while installing Windows.
 
If you were me would you install the modded raid rom and the corresponding drivers?  If so could you walk me through the steps to do so?   

Thing is if you were me I would but I don't know how technical you are at handling raid and motherboard bios issues that could come up. So if I was you I would just play it safe and don't bother with it because your going to have to have someone mod your bios with 11.6 for trim rom file and then flash the file and take the chance your system will work properly in regards to Marvel controllers and the like. However if your as bored as I am playing with obsolete hardware and love to squeeze out as much performance and features no matter what the risk then do it.

beekermartin
Ok.  I don't have an extra bios chip so if I make a mistake I am basically screwed.  Also, there isn't a modded bios I can just download and install?  So basically I would have to find someone who can mod a bios for me?       

Finding someone to mod it for you isn't an issue. You could ask Henry or go to Win-Raid.com and ask Fernando. I'm sure they would do it for you. The big risk is what if the flash fails, or what if the rom conflicts with other hardware. I think the risk is low though. In 25 years I have had a bad flash happen only like once. The more obvious risk is  data corruption from trim not working right on X58 as its basically untested. In my case so far so good.

Yeah those Marvel ports could cause an issue. You probably would have to shut them off but yes Trim does help maintain SSD performance. I benched two raid arrays on different controllers and on that 11.6 on X58 two Sandisk Ultra Plus drives gave me a score of a 1000 with AS-SSD Benchmark and on Haswell rig two Kingston 128gb 3K drives gave me a score of 800. That was with sata6 on the Intel ports!
 
Anyhow if your not comfortable doing it then don't. Good luck.
 

If you installed the Intel RST package the raid drivers are included.
 
 

mitymaus
I ended up at the same place dmoheban did. 11.6 trim modded rom and 12.9 drivers. I also agree with his description that it just feels better.

 
mitymaus just to get this right you are running 2 SSDs in RAID 0 on your E760 motherbarid and trim is working?
 
What operating system? W7 64 bit?
Have you used trimcheck to verify it?
What SSDs are you using?
 
Could you post a link to the exact bios bin you used on your E760 and what exact 12.9 drivers you are using?
 
thank you in advance.

This is the E760 trim modded bios. use at your own risk. https://docs.google.com/f...xoNllkbUJuWnhLM1E/edit

To all of you still playing around with your X58 boards there are new modded Trim capable Intel raid modules all the way from 12.7 to the 13.1 rom release on the Win-Raid.com forums. Use at your own risk but I'm going to try the 12.7  right now!

Many thanks henryvits, latest Orom, drivers and trim! I installed the modded bios 13.1 and 13.0 beta drivers last night, but, trim could not be verified initially, I tried a few reboots but no luck, figured I would deal with it later. Today, it works perfectly! Go figure.

Just to clarify --
 
When you guys mention trim working on x58, you're talking about trim in RAID working on x58, right? It's been my understanding that trim in single-drive'd AHCI setups has been working all along. I hope I haven't mistaken that.
 
 
 
Secondly, from what I gather from Fernando's forums -- there really isn't any benefit for x58'ers to keep updating OROMs and drivers beyond 11.2ish releases. Apparently, Intel hasn't pushed even a wink of new updates or improvements for ICH10R/X58 chipsets in their driver/OROM releases since then (although the newer ones still technically support x58/ICH10R), but rather, are only optimizing the releases newer chipsets and controllers.
 
Is this true? If so, what's the point of continuing to mod and push upware to higher versions? Wouldn't that just be gambling with instability issues with zero chance of performance gain?
 
 
Don't get me wrong -- I'd love to keep pushing my ol' x58'er to infinity and beyond, I'm just wary of attempting to do so but ending up going in the opposite direction.
 
For reference, I'm on an eVGA x758 (bios 83) with an Intel 320 160GB SSD in AHCI, currently with 11.2.0.1527 OROM/11.2.0.1006 drivers. As it's been my understanding that trim has worked fine in AHCI mode, I haven't modded any bios/oroms yet (but will do so if I'm mistaken!).