New Board?

David Roberts · 1 Jun 2018 at 08:48

I’ve been thinking about upgrading my current HDD to ssd but when i realised that my mb is sata 2 this has put the dampers on things as I have read that this will cut the performance by half which defeats the object a bit.
Because funds are limited, the only option open would for me would be to find a sata 3 mb that can utilise my existing CPU and ram. My existing board is the MSI (micro star) 760GM-P23 FX. Does anyone know of a board that meets this requirement?

David Roberts · 1 Jun 2018 at 14:13

Thanks for that. I didn't known that was an option that was open to me. Is there a particular type that I should go for, I noticed in the wording in your link PCI express, but the link goes to 404 error.

Dave

David Roberts · 1 Jun 2018 at 14:28

Just had a look at the spec for my board, regarding PCI slots it states:Number of Total Expansion Slots: 3 Number of PCI Slots: 1 PCI Express Standard: PCI Express 2.0 Total Number of PCI Express Slots: 2 Number of PCI Express x16 Slots.

I'm not sure that I understand the technicalities, which one should I be using?

Thanks again
Dave

David Roberts · 1 Jun 2018 at 18:07

Thanks for all the helpful replies.