Re: GIGABYTE Modified Bios
The BIOS came from a Marvell insider, but I do not have direct contact with him though. I do believe that it was used on an Asus board as well but I am not sure which one. In all I noticed that the controller is more stable when running RAID with the 0025 than with the stock 0017 BIOS. My testing was done with a Corsair Force GT series drives (2x 120GB drives) using the newest Sandforce controller. I found that on 0017 BIOS the RAID array was very prone to corruption when used as the OS drive, especially when overclocking. Almost all of that went away when using the 0025 BIOS. I also noticed a slight bump in performance when testing with AS SSD, though I did not do extensive testing to eliminate any statistical error. I have not been using the 0017 for many months now and have been using the 0025 BIOS solid for a long time. Having said that, because of the potential of corruption when overclocking I do not bother with Marvell for RAID any more as Intel generally responds better when overclocking. Also, I noticed that ICHR10 provides better performance for 4K reads and writes, where as Marvell (both 0017 and 0025 BIOS) provides better sequential.
I will post up the 0025 BIOS if you want to use it (hopefully) tonight. I just find it disappointing that Marvell does not post up these builds officially since I pretty much know for a fact that they have updated builds internally (just like the 0025 we are talking about here).
I also have a finished mod (did it a couple of days ago) for the X58A-OC based on the F5e BIOS that I can post up. The mod includes the following option ROMs.
Intel RAID ROM: 11.1.0.1413
Marvell RAID ROM: 1.0.0.0025
Realtek PXE ROM: 2.46
Originally posted by Lsdmeasap
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Originally posted by Acebmxer
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I will post up the 0025 BIOS if you want to use it (hopefully) tonight. I just find it disappointing that Marvell does not post up these builds officially since I pretty much know for a fact that they have updated builds internally (just like the 0025 we are talking about here).
I also have a finished mod (did it a couple of days ago) for the X58A-OC based on the F5e BIOS that I can post up. The mod includes the following option ROMs.
Intel RAID ROM: 11.1.0.1413
Marvell RAID ROM: 1.0.0.0025
Realtek PXE ROM: 2.46
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