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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: blink on July 24, 2011, 05:28:17 pm

Title: Which SATA, 2 or 3 for boot drive X58A-UD5
Post by: blink on July 24, 2011, 05:28:17 pm

Should I connect the boot drive to Sata 3 or 2- I'm interested in whether I'll see a performance boost with the C drive, WD Caviar Black 500gb, connected to Sata 3 as opposed to Sata 2; if it's negligible, I'll leave well enough alone.  I'm loving this board; it's quite a piece of work- it recognized 24 gigs of memory at first boot which was a huge relief, but I did have problems configuring 3 Sata WD Caviar Black drives and a Sata DVD burner- it had a problem with the burner, so I moved it to Sata 3 and problem solved.  And I'm in the high 30s for temps, is that normal with an i7 960 processor?  One of the cores is a few degrees warmer, about 3 to 5.  The heatsink is a Cooler Master Vortex Plus using Arctic Silver 5- it's not an amazing cooler, but better than stock.  Apparently it takes Arctic Silver about 200 hours to cure until you see the real temps.  Thanks all and stay cool- we're sweltering on the East Coast.       

Title: Re: Which SATA, 2 or 3 for boot drive X58A-UD5
Post by: Dark Mantis on July 24, 2011, 05:34:54 pm

Hi

The fastest ports you have on your motherboard are the SATA2 controlled  byt the Intel ICH10R controller chip. The Marvell SATA 3 ports don't work very well and are prone to dropouts etc.

You would probably be best advised to configure your burner's port as IDE mode.

The temps are fine and it is usual for one core to be hotter than others.

Title: Re: Which SATA, 2 or 3 for boot drive X58A-UD5
Post by: F5BJR on July 24, 2011, 06:11:57 pm

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You can also use the IDE port for your sata DVD with a little adapter similar to this ( low cost )

http://www.asia.ru/images/img/190112/St106.jpg

or the dual port if you have not mechanical problem

http://www.webconnexxion.com/raid5/p/634/addonics-adebide2sa-embedded-ide-dual-sata-port-converter.html



Pierre

Title: Re: Which SATA, 2 or 3 for boot drive X58A-UD5
Post by: blink on July 25, 2011, 12:00:51 pm

Thanks, I'll keep the boot drive where it is. 

Title: Re: Which SATA, 2 or 3 for boot drive X58A-UD5
Post by: Dark Mantis on July 25, 2011, 12:14:42 pm

Yes I thinks that is the best idea. ;)

Title: Re: Which SATA, 2 or 3 for boot drive X58A-UD5
Post by: JekylHyde on November 18, 2011, 12:35:47 am

Quote from: Dark Mantis on July 24, 2011, 05:34:54 pm

Hi

The fastest ports you have on your motherboard are the SATA2 controlled  byt the Intel ICH10R controller chip. The Marvell SATA 3 ports don't work very well and are prone to dropouts etc.You would probably be best advised to configure your burner's port as IDE mode.

The temps are fine and it is usual for one core to be hotter than others.

it depends ... rev.1 has problems with sata-3
rev.2 fixed that
no?