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post #441 of 542
11/30/09 at 10:43am
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Gaming benchmarks I will add to the original post.
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post #442 of 542
12/1/09 at 4:46pm
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Ran this once again last night.
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post #443 of 542
12/1/09 at 11:49pm
Hey, you have G2 160GB drive, right?
Did you upgrade the firmware that's released today?
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post #444 of 542
12/2/09 at 6:47am
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Hey, you have G2 160GB drive, right?
Did you upgrade the firmware that's released today?
Nope, never saw it release. I will take a look. Thanks for the info.
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post #445 of 542
12/2/09 at 6:54am
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Hey, you have G2 160GB drive, right?
Did you upgrade the firmware that's released today?
What does this new firmware "improve"? Link please?

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post #446 of 542
12/2/09 at 7:28am
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LINK
The main thing it does is it enables Windows 7 TRIM support.
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post #447 of 542
12/2/09 at 7:36am
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Hey, you have G2 160GB drive, right?
Did you upgrade the firmware that's released today?
Just tried it and it didn't work. It doesn't find the SSD. I tried putting the controller in different compatibility modes but it didn't work. I'm not going to try it in my Thinkpad because it's too old. I have a M17 coming in soon and I will try doing it with that machine.

Any success on your side?
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post #448 of 542
12/2/09 at 7:42am
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The main thing it does is it enables Windows 7 TRIM support.


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post #449 of 542
12/2/09 at 11:13am
Same happpened to me.
That's why I was asking if you managed to upgrade with M17x.
Guys from Intel support forum suggested that I do it on a desktop with Intel MB
But I'd have to wait until christmas for that.
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post #450 of 542
12/2/09 at 11:27am
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You don't have access to any other system? What about a friends?
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post #451 of 542
12/2/09 at 3:07pm
All of my friends here only have laptops.
I'm sure they won't open up their system just so I can upgrade my SSD.
My roommate has those don't-know-how-to-open macbook.
So, I'm hopeless.
I'm going home on Christmas and I can upgrade it on my desktop.
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post #452 of 542
12/2/09 at 5:07pm
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I saw your other post. Congrats on fixing it but you might want to post the info here so more people can see it. TIA!
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post #453 of 542
12/2/09 at 6:24pm
Alright, yeah, for those with M17x and X25-M G2 drive.
If you do the upgrade process from CD, it won't detect your SSD.
You have to do it via flash drive.
The instructions are found here.
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post #454 of 542
12/2/09 at 8:12pm
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Didn't work for me. What mode did you put your controller in?
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post #455 of 542
12/2/09 at 8:29pm
Just a heads up, intel just released a new firmware update for their SSD's.
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Deta...&DwnldID=18363

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post #456 of 542
12/2/09 at 8:36pm
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Just a heads up, intel just released a new firmware update for their SSD's.
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Deta...&DwnldID=18363

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That's what we've been talking about.

Mine evidently worked. I got a message that the upgrade was unsuccessful so I pulled it and put it in my Dell laptop. When that detected the SSD it said it was already up to date and showed the new firmware. I guess everything is OK now.
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post #457 of 542
12/2/09 at 8:38pm
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my sequential write went from 100 to 106, yipee
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post #458 of 542
12/2/09 at 8:58pm
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That's what we've been talking about. .
haha, well.... that shows me.

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post #459 of 542
12/4/09 at 11:42am
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My thread is falling.
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post #460 of 542
12/4/09 at 1:20pm
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Received an Intel T9900 in the mail today. I plan on doing some benchmarks with it over the weekend. I'm hoping since the proc requires less power that I can OC it to 3.7Ghz+
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