The AS SSD Benchmark determines the performance of Solid State Drives (SSD). The tool contains six synthetic and three copy tests. , the synthetic tests determine the sequential and random read and write performance of the SSD. These tests are carried out without using the operating system cache. In Seq-test the program measures how long it takes to read a 1 GB file to write respectively. 4K test the reading and writing performance in random 4K blocks is determined. The 4K-64-thrd test corresponds to the 4K procedure except that the read and write operations are spread across 64 threads. This test should represent SSDs with Native Command Queuing (NCQ) differences between the IDE operation mode where NCQ is not supported, and the AHCI mode. The additional compression test can measure the power of the SSD in response to the data compressibility. This is especially for the controllers that use to increase the performance and life of the cell compression is important. During the first three synthetic tests and the compression test, the size of the test file is 1 GB. Finally, the access time of the SSD is still under investigation, the access to read the entire capacity of the SSD (Full Stroke) is determined. The write access test, however, is done with a 1 GB big test file.
A strong showing from the Samsung 840 SSD, the write speeds are less than other drives on the market but these figures are less important for gaming where reads play a bigger factor in overall performance.
The OcUK Titan Scythe booted into Windows 8 in a very quick time of 18 seconds, this really impressed us but we found that in the UEFI a new feature called Quick Boot was disabled. This feature has two settings (Quick and ultra fast), with Ultra fast now enabled the boot time dropped to 15.5 seconds which is very good indeed.
Moving onto CPU temperatures we ran the AIDA64 Stability test for 20 minutes and used CoreTemp to record the CPU cores highest values. The core temperature values were 63C, 67C, 66C, 61C, this gives an average of 64.25C, the ambient air temperature was 22.3C giving us a Delta temperature of 41.95C.
These temperatures are very good indeed and were recorded with the cases fan controller at its medium setting so you ultimately have a cool and quiet running CPU.
