Is my MOBO good enough for SSD

Titleist

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Hi,

I have a Gigabyte X58-UD3R MOBO and I am looking to purchase a SSD for my PC and was hoping to get some expert advice from the members....

1. Is my MOBO good enough for a SSD?
2. If not what is MOBO do you recommend
3. If it is good enough then what is the best SSD for this MOBO (to get full speeds)

My PC specs are briefly:
Gigabyte X58-UD3R
P7
8GB of RAM
 
It has sata 3 so it is fine. What size SSD where you planning on getting? If 64gb or 256gb get the ones on sale here , they're incredibly cheap and have good speeds
 
Titleist said:
Hi,

I have a Gigabyte X58-UD3R MOBO and I am looking to purchase a SSD for my PC and was hoping to get some expert advice from the members....

1. Is my MOBO good enough for a SSD?
2. If not what is MOBO do you recommend
3. If it is good enough then what is the best SSD for this MOBO (to get full speeds)

My PC specs are briefly:
Gigabyte X58-UD3R
P7
8GB of RAM
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you wont see full advertised speeds for sata3 on that motherboard,only on 1156/2011 socket machines you would see that,however you will see fster than sata2 speeds if you use the marvell sata3 ports on that motherboard
 
Thanks for the replies, can I ask the obvious question, I am looking to get a 120/128gb SSD mostly for gaming, so what will be my best choice.

Also who regularly upgrades their firmware for their SSDs???
 
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128gb id choose the crucial m4,corsair performance pro,vertex 4,,intel 520,anyone of those

price=performance id get the m4
 
Firmware I'd say update it as soon as you get the thing and then you don't really need to bother unless there's a bad fault fixed by the firmware
 
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