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P55A-UD4P Questions about Sata3 and SLI

P55A-UD4P Questions about Sata3 and SLI
« on: February 25, 2011, 12:53:57 am »
I have a few questions about settings for Sata3 and SLI.

I've been using my UD4P with 2 EVGA 460s and a Sata2 drive. I bought a new drive today as I needed more space and it is Sata3. I did a few quick searches and found out that the controller for Sata3 messes with this. I don't really care about getting Sata3 speeds out of my hdd, but I definitely don't want my GPU performance to drop.

Is my best bet to just plug the new drive into a Sata2 port? Or is there a setting I should enable/disable.

Thanks in advance,
Scynthe

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Re: P55A-UD4P Questions about Sata3 and SLI
« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2011, 08:54:08 am »
Hi and welcome to the Gigabyte Forum.

Well I will make it easy for you. Forget the SATA3 ports as they never worked to their full capacity anyway. I would recommend just using them for your optical drives etc and use the Intel ICH10R ports for  your hard drives. The Marvell controler never actually delivered on it's promise of SATA3 speeds and as such is fine as a SATA2 controller but not much more.
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Re: P55A-UD4P Questions about Sata3 and SLI
« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2011, 12:20:14 pm »
So as long as I do that my SLI will be unaffected?

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Re: P55A-UD4P Questions about Sata3 and SLI
« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2011, 04:16:33 pm »
I don't personally run SLI but as far as I know it shouldn't affect it at all.
« Last Edit: February 25, 2011, 04:17:15 pm by Dark Mantis »
Gigabyte X58A-UD7
i7 920
Dominators 1600 x6 12GB
6970 2GB
HX850
256GB SSD, Sam 1TB, WDB320GB
Blu-Ray
HAF 932

Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3
i7 3770K
Vengeance 1600 16GB
6950 2GB
HCP1200W
Revo Drive x2, 1.5TB WDB RAID0
16x DLRW
StrikeX S7
Full water cooling
3 x 27" Iiy