Thinking of getting the UD4 but what is the risk of the sata degrading?

xRowan · 7 Mar 2011 at 10:13

Yesterday my brand new PC died due to an electrical fault :mad:

So I have been looking around the Sandybridge motherboards and the UD4 caught my eye. I know from gigabyte's 1336 motherboards they are great for overclocking. Although, I have been reading about the Sata ports 2-5 degrading over time. Is this the case with all motherboards? Or is it only a small amount? If so how much are they at risk? Cheers

nightmare99 · 7 Mar 2011 at 10:16

Just get a new B3 stepping board which has taken away the potential for the SATA to degrade.

VoG · 7 Mar 2011 at 10:41

xRowan said:
I have been reading about the Sata ports 2-5 degrading over time. Is this the case with all motherboards? Or is it only a small amount? If so how much are they at risk? Cheers

no one can answer those questions with any accuracy, there's a design flaw that affects all B2 chipsets, how many will fail, and over what time scale remains to be seen. there are allready B3 UD4's available if you shop around, if it was me, i most certainly would not build a new rig with a UD4-B2 knowing i could get a B3 variant now.

xRowan · 7 Mar 2011 at 11:47

VoG said:
no one can answer those questions with any accuracy, there's a design flaw that affects all B2 chipsets, how many will fail, and over what time scale remains to be seen. there are allready B3 UD4's available if you shop around, if it was me, i most certainly would not build a new rig with a UD4-B2 knowing i could get a B3 variant now.

Thanks, that is a big help! I didn't realise that gigabyte are now selling b3 UD4s. Cheers