I have this barebones system:
Barebones System
How can I tell if the motherboard will support SATA-II 3.0Gbp/s?
Barebones System
How can I tell if the motherboard will support SATA-II 3.0Gbp/s?
How can you tell if your motherboard supports SATA-II 3.0Gbp/s?
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Man of Honour
From memory the Nforce3 chipset doesn't support the enhanced SATA features such as 300MB/s transfers but hard drives that are capable of them are backwards compatible with your PC and chipset. 
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Not that it matters...
Soldato
It says just serial SATA on the link you provided so SATA1. TBH SATA2 gives you an improved burst rate but sustained rates are limited at the mo by hardware.
Associate
It might just say SATA though due to SATA-II not actually existing technically. More and more companies are like that. For example, look at Seagate and WD's websites. No mention of SATA-II anywhere despite drives supporting 3Gb/s transfer rates, NCQ etc.
However, looking at it more closely, it's a Socket 754 system with the nForce 3 chipset so it's quite likely that it may only support SATA 1.5Gb/s. Not that it's a big issue though as no current drive can saturate a 1.5Gb/s link anyway.
However, looking at it more closely, it's a Socket 754 system with the nForce 3 chipset so it's quite likely that it may only support SATA 1.5Gb/s. Not that it's a big issue though as no current drive can saturate a 1.5Gb/s link anyway.