GA-P55-UD5 which SATA controller to use?

nwinton

nwinton

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This board has 2 SATA controllers
1) P55 chipset controller with 6 connectors supporting RAID 0, 1, 5, 10
2) Gigabyte SATA controller supporting RAID 0, 1

The User Manual is not very helpful in explaing the difference between these two controllers.:confused:

Which one should I use for my system disk (WD Velociraptor 150Gb)
Should I use the same one for my data disk (Seagate 1Tb)

Any info on the differences between the two controllers would be most helpful.

Thanks
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Ive used the blue chipset connectors on my ud5 - using 5 of the 6 at the moment.
Might be worth running some HD benchmarks across the different controllers if disk throughput really matters to you, think ill wait until i get an SSD before doing that.
 
Use the Intel controller (ICH10R), which is the top 6 (blue) of the 10 SATA ports, the jmicron (Gigabyte SATA2, bottom four (white) is quite inferior to the Intel and should only be used if all 6 Intel are filled...
 
Sorry to hijack, can you check your drivers cd for the realtek ethernet teaming utility as stated in page 90 of the manual.

These are missing off my cd
 
In your signature you show you have an i7 920. This would make yours a socket 1366 motherboard.
My board is the socket 1156 - a GA-P55-UD5.
There is a folder on mycd called e:\Utility\SmartDualLan\ which may be what you should look for in your driver disk.
 
I just built my new machine last night with this same board and an Intel i5 750.

I also wasn't sure which SATA connectors to go for so I just went for the blue ones:

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I have 3 hdds in SATA2_0 - SATA2_2 and my dvd drive is in SATA2_3.

They seem OK in there although for some reason windows 7 took AGES to install, I think thats a *cough* not legit *cough* disc issue though ;)

Have you got used to the BIOS on this board yet? I'm not sure how to setup my memory frequencies just yet.
 
nwinton said:
In your signature you show you have an i7 920. This would make yours a socket 1366 motherboard.
My board is the socket 1156 - a GA-P55-UD5.
There is a folder on mycd called e:\Utility\SmartDualLan\ which may be what you should look for in your driver disk.
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Yes mine is a Gigabyte EX58-UD5 Intel X58 Motherboard which i think has dual Realtek 8111D chips.

I pretty sure your board has the same.

Any chance i can grab a copy of that folder mate?
 
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