Will Samsung 850 Pro SSD work fine on 990FX AMD motherboard?

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Hey!

I have Asus Sabertooth 990FX motherboard with AMD FX-8320 CPU. Will Samsung 850 Pro SSD drive work fine with my current set? Or does it require Intel-based build? (Is there much speed loss or something like that?)

Thanks for the answers!
 
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It should work great on one of the 6Gbps AMD ports (brown).

A number of friends have told me that the Microsoft AHCI drivers worked better from them, but I have not personally tested that out.
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Thanks for quick answers. I will try both amdsata and msahci drivers after installing Windows and see which is better.

I just didn't want to install Windows and realize my drive doesn't work properly.
 
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Samsung solid state drives will work with AMD systems. Usually it is a matter of using correct drivers and configuration settings.

I have two desktop pc's in my home office. One is an Intel system and one is an AMD system. Both pc's have two Samsung ssd's installed. Each ssd is a different model. I have never had any ssd problems with either system. Having said that I need to mention that Samsung has repeatedly published documents indicating their ssd's were designed for use with Intel systems. Therefore, Samsung recommends installing their ssd's in Intel systems. That does not mean their ssd's will not work in AMD systems. On the contrary, they work quite well. As with other pc components, sometimes things can go wrong.

You must have read about the slight performance hit with ssd's in AMD systems. Yes, there is a very very slight reduction in performance. However, the difference is so small that it is insignificant for the vast majority of users. Users will not notice the minor difference.
 
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I am using a Samsung 850 Pro 128GB SSD for the boot drive on my Gigabye GA-990FXA-UD3.

There were no drivers and no setup. Plug it in, turn it on, install Windows, marvel at how fast boot-up is now.

Do it. Do it nao.
 
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Yes, but you will not get full speed as I believe SATA III does better on Intel. I personally run an 850 pro with my 8350, it runs great and have never had an issue. I have the same board you have.
 
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Aye, but the difference will be so small as to be unnoticeable to human perception, requiring benchmarking to illustrate it.

The question was, will this SSD work on this chipset/motherboard? And the answer is, most definitely yes.
 
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Yep, that's where i noticed it, was benchmarking, overall it's still a HUGE improvement over HDD.

 
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Im actually upgrading from old OCZ vertex 3 RAID 0 set. They're old disks and kinda risky to keep those on RAID. Advantage of RAID 0 is very questionable anyway so I think single modern SSD will be better choice now. And its good to hear the speed difference vs Intel will be in unnoticeable-category.

Thanks for answers!
 
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Just doing some update. After installing Windows 7 and its updates and some other programs decided to try some benchmarks.
For me it seems to be that amdsata driver worked atleast equally but mostly better compared with msahci. Greatest difference was seen in Crystal disk mark's 4KQD32 test in which amdsata driver boosted write speed about 130 mb/s and read speed about 60 mb/s.

I did both tests multiple with both drivers. It also seems to be true that max performance mode in power settings slightly increases read and write speeds (locks processor multipler to max, for me FX-8320 4/4.2 GHz). I think my 850 PRO performed well on my system losing for Intel based systems signficantly only in AS SSD 4K-64Thrd and CrystalDiskMark 4KQD32 test.

Here's my final results on AS SSD and CrystalDiskMark benchmarks:

http://s22.postimg.org/v26zmkzj5/Crystal_Disk_Mark_Samsung_850_PRO.png
http://s22.postimg.org/ke38nqpk1/AS_SSD_Samsung_850_PRO.png
 
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I have the ga-990fxa-uds rev3 mobo with the Samsung 850 pro 256gb. this SSD does not perform at the advertised specs. the sequential read and write speeds are as advertised but the IOp/s are only 60-70% as advertised. with the breakdown showing that it fails to perform with larger queue depths
(2/3rds of advertised specs) but is on spec at a QD of 1... This doesn't seem like its a driver issue, it seems like this is a problem of the SSD being designed to work with intel systems primarily and AMD secondary. ive contacted Samsung and talked to their tech support and gone over everything to make sure its setup properly and it was. the windows drivers result in going from 70% of advertised IOPs down to 40% of advertised IOPs. in the end I was simply told that "we advertise that it goes UP TO 100K iops, not that it will get there" and that they consider 'compatibility' to be a measure of whether the drive will function as a drive, not whether it performs as advertised. it doesn't matter to them if certain systems only get 10k iops instead of being near 100k iops, they see no reason to inform you before purchase that their drive will not perform as advertised if you stick it in a AMD motherboard(?). At the moment the most I can get out of it is 70K iops out of 100K. Samsung is a scam company because they dont tell you this in the compatibility list and don't accept returns. I will never buy from them again and plan to tell everyone that they scam their buyers.
 
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