I am planning on buying the Asus U3S6, because I want an SSD (OCZ vertex 3) and want to get the most out of it as I do not own a SATA 6 mobo! I was wondering, because the card requires a PCI-E 2.0 (x4) , I only have a x16 free on my mobo, and it is only Gen 1=(PCI-E 1.0) I know that plugging a x4 pci express card would work if I plugged it into my spare x16 slot, but because the x16 is only PCI-E 1.0, and the Asus card requires a 2.0 slot, will I get the most performance out of the card? I have looked all over the internet, but can't find many answers? Because, if it won't give me a performance increase because it's gen 1 my slot, there's no point purchasing the card in the end!
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If your second physical x16 slot is PCIE v1.x and only runs at x4 speed, then this is equivalent to 500MB/s per direction or a x2 speed PCIE v2.x slot. Therefore you would get pretty much all the performance possible out of a SSD like the Vertex 3.
The ASUS card is PCIE v2.x, but this standard is required to be backwards compatible with PCIE v1.x slots - it just means they will run with half the normal bandwidth, and as mentioned above this should be enough for the application you are using.
The ASUS card is PCIE v2.x, but this standard is required to be backwards compatible with PCIE v1.x slots - it just means they will run with half the normal bandwidth, and as mentioned above this should be enough for the application you are using.
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I have the asus card with my C300 and with atto I can easily get 370+mb/s read. So I think as long as you use a x16 slot like I am done then you should be ok with the 500mb/s read/write speeds.
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No, you will not reach the full speed...
The Asus card uses a Marvell controller which the Vertex 3 does not like (because the controller is well... not as good as Intel controller).
So with this card and a Vertex 3, you will not have the full advertised speed... In fact writes will suffer quite a lot if I remember correctly from a post I saw somewhere in this forum.
The Asus card uses a Marvell controller which the Vertex 3 does not like (because the controller is well... not as good as Intel controller).
So with this card and a Vertex 3, you will not have the full advertised speed... In fact writes will suffer quite a lot if I remember correctly from a post I saw somewhere in this forum.
the slot is a x16 gen 1 and the asus card requires a x4 gen 2 slot. My board clocks down to two pci-e x8 with a second card in my x16 slot