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I am thinking of buying these three times; the PCI card since my Asus P5Q Pro Turbo does not have sata 3.

1) Are they all compatible with each other? The card does not seem to support my board; according to the website but a lot fo people are using it with other boards.

2) Also i read about how you need a sandybrdige system/mobo in order to gain the best performance from the SSD is this true? What kind of performance could i expect with my P5Q with the card?

3) Is this the best card to get; i want something good / compatible; I'm assuming the controller type etc is important when using a SSD

4) Any thoughts on the Segate; no more issues with their drive failing? Sound? Performance?

OCZ Vertex 3 120GB 2.5" SATA-3 Solid State Hard Drive
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-071-OC

Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB SATA 6Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM (ST2000DL003)
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-244-SE

Asus U3S6 USB3.0 & SATA 6Gbps PCI-Express Controller Card
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CC-000-AS

Thanks
 
So firstly the card is compatible with my mobo then?

What percentage of performance could i expect with the vertex three when using just my sata 2 mobo and the sata 3 PCI card, whould it be much better than a vertex TWO?

Thanks guys
 
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Thanks for the detailed response.

It sucks that i would get a GPU impact so i will probably avoid doing it.

I still would like the vertex three; remembering that right now i would only have vertex 2 speeds since connected stright into MB but once i buy a new PC i can stick that in for sata 3 speeds; especially since no point updating the MB, CPU etc just for that... might as well buy a new PC! Or as you suggested i may see what prices the bigfoot goes to; i tried a vertex 2 before and the difference over my raptor is not much for my needs

One final question; if i put a different esata and/or USB3 PCI card onto my motherboard would my GPU also take a performance hit; is there a way to avoid this?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CC-005-SR&groupid=701&catid=49&subcat=424

Thanks again
 
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