Poor performance on the TUF Gaming X570. Extremely slow internet speeds.
Poor performance on the TUF Gaming X570. Extremely slow internet speeds.
Aight so, here's the deal. About four weeks ago one of my two bulk SSDs, an 870qvo 2tb became straight up unusable. sub 1MB read speeds, but solid 550MB write speed. Troubleshooting it I switched which bay the two identical 870qvo ssds were in, (i.e. ssd1 to bay2, ssd2 to bay1) and the second 870 (ssd2) then became unusable, while the first 870 (ssd1) became completely normal again, 550 read/write. The sata cables are integrated into the backplane, I have no way to remove them, however reseating the connections on the motherboard did nothing. Reseating the ssds in the bays also did nothing. Restarting/updating windows & bios obviously did nothing. Removing the bays and backplane from the equation I changed the sata ports that the bays are connected to, from sata 1/2 to sata 3/4 and both drives began to function completely normally. Seemingly the issue was on sata1 Fast forward a few weeks, same issue has presented itself. sata3 is now completely dead on read speeds down to sub 5MB, while write speeds remain unaffected. Again, moving from sata 3/4 to 5/6 has solved the issue. Essentially, like, sanity check. This has got to be motherboard/cpu related, right? That seems to me to be what everything is pointing at. Even if its motherboard related, I don't exactly want to spend the money on a new x570, esp when 7kx3d is out, which means new board, cpu, and ram, which kinda sucks because the 5900x is still perfectly capable. System core specs 5900x 32gb hyperx 3200mhz x570 tuf gaming 4090 2x 2tb 870qvo 1x 1tb 970evo 1x 1tb sabret rocket supernova p5 1000w o11 dynamic xl
Current rig uses a 5900x non-x3d setup, originally 3700x. I recently updated the BIOS and completely reinstalled everything with the 5900x and 4090 upgrade. I haven't reinstalled Windows since this problem appeared; it took a long time to get things back to how I wanted them and restore all programs and repositories. Though I assume the issue didn’t stem from Windows at least, since the SATA 3 started working again after changing ports on the motherboard. The performance is still not at full speed, but reaching 480MB/s is close enough to 550MB/s, which gives a reasonable margin with Windows.
Sure, I understand. You can explore the reasons behind disk occupancy and verify issues using the CrystaldiskInfo tool.
Neither of the ssds are reporting anything unusual w/ cdinfo. Eventviewer is similarly useless. I'm fairly certain the issue isn't with the drives but with something else. Perhaps drivers corrupted in the background after a windows update, (happens all too often), But again the changing of sata ports I don't feel would alleviate a driver issue like that. Its just such a bizarre issue I've never encountered before. Sata1 is still dead, but sata3 is working now again, which makes no sense. I thought perhaps there was some cracked traces in the mb, and perhaps the heat I was dumping into my case running my 5900x/4090 at full tilt training some models was causing the cracks to close just enough for sata3 to start working again, but its been cooled down for a while now and its still fine.
That's unusual, isn't it? I've noticed indexing getting quite intense on HDDs and older SSDs, but not for a while. It tends to happen in the background anyway. The chkdsk utility can check for bad memory sectors, though SSDs usually fix themselves when issues are detected. Since there were no errors reported, it probably isn't the problem either. Taking apart and examining the board seems unlikely because such minor heat effects won't be noticeable without magnification.
It seems like the issue might be related to a faulty cable or a malfunctioning controller that isn't performing CRC checks. I should reach out to Lian Li to discuss getting a new backplane. It’s unclear if the cables are easily swappable or if the SATA power/data cables are integrated onto the backplane. Ideally, we should confirm this first. At least avoid risky changes on a high-value system like this. Maybe an experienced expert will find a straightforward fix soon.
Is that the backplate inside the disk cradle next to the mainboard tray? Have you checked with the SATA cables included with the board? You might need to place the disks outside the cradles to verify.