Have been looking at an SSD upgrade with the prices looking so good at the moment what sort of speeds would i be looking at using an AMD chipset ive read they will be less than the Max shown for Intel but would it still be worth it....or would i be better putting £200 towards a Sandy/Ivy upgrade considering i dont even use the power i have now and was planning on skipping 2 Gens before an upgrade of CPU/Mobo.
SSD on AMD
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The motherboard seems to have 5 x SATA3/6Gbps ports from the AMD chipset.
These would seem to provide broadly similar performance to Intel's SATA2/3Gbps SATA ports.
6Gbgps SATA Performance: AMD 890GX vs Intel X58/P55
You'll get the benefits of an SSD such as near instantaneous access times but you're unlikely to see the headline speeds of using an Intel SATA 3 connection.
These would seem to provide broadly similar performance to Intel's SATA2/3Gbps SATA ports.
6Gbgps SATA Performance: AMD 890GX vs Intel X58/P55
You'll get the benefits of an SSD such as near instantaneous access times but you're unlikely to see the headline speeds of using an Intel SATA 3 connection.
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There seems to be a newer version on the way but this one is plenty fast enough, reliable and, relatively speaking, cheap as chips.
A few days ago you'd have paid £50 more for it.
You could RAID 0 two 128GB drives for increased speeds but I'm not sure you'd notice in day to day use.
Plus you double your chances of losing your data and I don't know if TRIM works with that configuration (it doesn't with Intel chipsets).
I think that with a single drive you need to use the stock Microsoft drivers for TRIM support, not the AMD drivers.
There seems to be a newer version on the way but this one is plenty fast enough, reliable and, relatively speaking, cheap as chips.
A few days ago you'd have paid £50 more for it.
You could RAID 0 two 128GB drives for increased speeds but I'm not sure you'd notice in day to day use.
Plus you double your chances of losing your data and I don't know if TRIM works with that configuration (it doesn't with Intel chipsets).
I think that with a single drive you need to use the stock Microsoft drivers for TRIM support, not the AMD drivers.
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