27 Mar 2012 at 13:54 #1 Dave0w Dave0w Associate Joined 22 Oct 2010 Posts 997 Location Pontefract is THIS ssd backwords compatable to sata2? my mother board is a Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H AMD 880G
27 Mar 2012 at 13:55 #2 stulid stulid Caporegime Joined 17 Jan 2010 Posts 66,731 Location weston-super-mare Yes it is, you will just be maxing out the port and not getting the stated read/write speeds.
27 Mar 2012 at 14:08 #3 Dave0w Dave0w Associate OP Joined 22 Oct 2010 Posts 997 Location Pontefract Still a lot faster that my stock hdd?
27 Mar 2012 at 14:09 #4 Randomface74 Randomface74 Permabanned Joined 9 Aug 2009 Posts 12,236 Location UK yup
27 Mar 2012 at 16:45 #5 CinderzFTW CinderzFTW Soldato Joined 5 Sep 2011 Posts 2,615 Location Nottingham, UK all sata 3 drives are backwards compatible to sata 2
27 Mar 2012 at 19:51 #6 pandem0nium pandem0nium Soldato Joined 5 Dec 2010 Posts 3,212 Location Solihull If you've got a spare x4 or higher PCIe you could get a Sata III bridge thing to get full speeds.