Well, after a talk with Yrag, a secure erase, and a restored backup, I have very little improvement from the OP screeny.

YAY!!!!   I secure erased and did a clean install of Win7 back my high write speeds. Reading a tad slower though. Oh swell.

I must have had a setting wrong?

And now that I have my programs reinstalled, it's back to 200's in write speed.

I guess I need to stop whining and just accept it as it is. 

Your PC and SSD's are fine Jim, SSD's lose speed as they get more data on them is all, but they are still faster than a standard drive.

Tom, I understand. But after a secure erase and a fresh install it writes at 408.7 and after installing my stuff, leaving 153 GB of empty space, it reduces to half the write speed, (229.2).

I find that to be quite a reduction.

when i had my ocz ssd, i tried in vain to get their tech support people to answer my questions regarding read and write speeds decreasing. after a week of back and forth email messages from china (they no longer had a direct tech support phone number), i gave up on ocz and called corsair to ask which model of theirs they recommended for my use. i described my dissatisfaction with ocz tech support to the tech guy from corsair and he helped me getting it to function properly. a secure erase and reinstall is what he recommended i do and it worked. needless to say, i bought a corsair ssd and got rid of the ocz as soon as i could. anyway, i was also told that an ssd will slow down as more data is added to it. this is especially true if the free space on the ssd is less than half of its total capacity. i keep all my temp files of any type on a platter drive because of that. currently, i have 2 corsair force gt 120 drives in a raid array and the speeds for it have slowly decreased over time. i have 2 samsung 840 pro 256 drives on a shelf across the room that i want to install but i'm too lazy to reinstall everything again right now. i was using a solo 840 pro but it failed and i had to revert to the twin corsairs for a bit. ramble ramble ramble. lack of proper punctuation and capitalization. disjointed thoughts galore. where's the paragraph break?

and i see the site has been updated/changed today and we can't edit our posts any longer.

" and the speeds for it have slowly decreased over time"

My speeds cut in half overnight. Faster, actually.

I secure erased yesterday, fresh install, added updates and drivers, good speeds.

Added my programs, speed cut in half. The 256 GB drive is less than a third full.

OCZ says I need to replace it. Tech support is having me run ATTO in I/O Comparison mode to test for a bad drive. It's a pass or fail test.

We shall see........

Yrag also says to RMA the thing.

Redneck, before you RMA, take out the graphics card you just put in and rerun the test. I'm wondering if the graphics card forced the board to lower the bus speed.

Redneck, before you RMA, take out the graphics card you just put in and rerun the test. I'm wondering if the graphics card forced the board to lower the bus speed.

On a secure erase and fresh install I get good speeds with both 650 gfx cards in. Until I install my programs.

Why would I need to remove a gfx card? And do you mean both, or just one?

Can't edit. First part of the above was a quote, of course.

If it was the gfx card, it wouldn't start fast and then slow down in hours.

Do you do the test before or after you install the gfx card drivers? Do you know if the Southbridge frequency has changed at all? Have you tried swapping cables on your SSDs? What kind of performance tests have you been doing and for how long?

Tested after install of gfx drivers. Reply 38 states as much.

I have no idea about the SB freq.

I did swap to a new cable.

Tests have been ATTO and Crystal Diskmark.

Not too often. GC has had plenty of time to work.