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motherboard upgrade - sata 6/m-atx core i5

  • 09-12-2013 2:35pm
    #1
    RoyalMarine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,824 ✭✭✭


    hey guys, currently using a p7h55D-M-Evo motherboard.

    Pretty quick Matx mobo, but I've recently bought a solid state drive.

    Looking to replace my motherboard for one with sata 6gb/s port.

    Any suggestions?

    Using a core i5 750 with a corsair h50 and an AMD HD 7770.

    Would like to keep it M-atx if possible, and would like to keep it under €70 if possible! (can also sell my current motherboard if price is higher than 70.)


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  • #2
    RoyalMarine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,824 ✭✭✭RoyalMarine


    bump :) hoping to order this today / tomorrow as soon as I find a suitable motherboard.

    Any help will be great!


  • #3
    justsomebloke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,407 ✭✭✭✭justsomebloke


    Have you tried seeing if the speed bump you'd just get from just using the current port is adequate? As it's an 1156 board I can't see you finding any that offer a good investment.

    You'll still see a good speed bump as is


  • #4
    marco_polo
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 10,088 Mod ✭✭✭✭marco_polo


    Not sure where you would even get a decent priced 1156 board now anyway TBH, but in any case SATA II actually has surprisingly little impact on the speed of normal desktop tasks like booting, loading a single application etc. It just can't be worth upgrading to another board with the same discontinued socket just for SATA III.

    You only really see large gaps in performance appear during artifical benchmark runs (Not dissimilar to RAM speed in this respect), or large file transfers from one SATA III SSD to another SATA III SSD .

    http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-upgrade-sata-3gbps,3469-13.html


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