LGA1156 with 6GB/s Sata iii
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Caporegime
If you are after SATAIII because you have SATAIII harddrives, don't bother.
If you are after SATAIII because you have a SATAIII SSD, don't bother, use the SSD on a SATAII port and it will still be fast, but come the time you do a upgrade of the CPU/Board, then you get an extra performance boost.
If you are after SATAIII because you have a SATAIII SSD, don't bother, use the SSD on a SATAII port and it will still be fast, but come the time you do a upgrade of the CPU/Board, then you get an extra performance boost.
Man of Honour
Sata III on 1156 boards is provided by the terrible Marvell controller which, quite frankly, is'nt worth bothering with. If you need Sata III support buy a pci-e add on card.
Most of which will use a similar controller.
Man of Honour
In which case OP may as well forget the idea until a future socket upgrade.
Associate
Sata 2 at 300 MB/s is hardly limiting. Unless you have two SSD's and are wanting to copy from one to the other quite often at over 300 MB/s then nothing else really uses the extra speed.
Man of Honour
Just to illustrate the point. Last night i benched my new Sandisk Extreme (sata 3) 240gb on the intel controller and the Marvell controller using Crystaldiskmark. The results i got are:-
Intel controller
Seq Read 277.8 Write 237.2
512k Read 267.6 Write 236.8
4k Read 38.85 Write 109.0
4kQD32 Read 179.0 Write 193.5
Marvell controller
Seq Read 379.2 Write 189.0
512k Read 367.8 Write 188.4
4k Read 38.40 Write 82.19
4kQD32 Read 213.6 Write 124.9
As you can see with the read speeds, apart from the 4k they are better than the Intel controller. Write speeds are massively lower though. All speeds are well below what they would be with this drive on a proper sata 3 Intel controller.
Intel controller
Seq Read 277.8 Write 237.2
512k Read 267.6 Write 236.8
4k Read 38.85 Write 109.0
4kQD32 Read 179.0 Write 193.5
Marvell controller
Seq Read 379.2 Write 189.0
512k Read 367.8 Write 188.4
4k Read 38.40 Write 82.19
4kQD32 Read 213.6 Write 124.9
As you can see with the read speeds, apart from the 4k they are better than the Intel controller. Write speeds are massively lower though. All speeds are well below what they would be with this drive on a proper sata 3 Intel controller.