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    Viable SATA3 add on card?

    Yes, they are the same but I was under the impression that some manufacturers had dodgied up the chipset implementation in order to save money on licensing. Please BORE me with the details. That is why I am here; looking/wanting to optimise my setup for the best possible user experience...
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    Viable SATA3 add on card?

    I gave it a shot... Just got the Rocket 620WDA. Its an improvement but I'm a little underwhelmed by its performance but I am using it on a PCIe ver 1.0 interface so am bottlenecked at theoretical 250MB/sec speed. M4 64G is getting 210MB/sec Reads; so it is a step up from the SATA 2...
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    Viable SATA3 add on card?

    Yep, it hurts. The M4 is my first SSD and so I'm AM pissed over the 140MB reads... The latency is nice though, makes things nice and snappy. Yeah I know. New mobo is in the pipeline but I was actually holding out for an AMD chipset. Think its the 890? chipset. Anand got a review on it...
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    Viable SATA3 add on card?

    I'm only getting 140MB reads from my Crucial M4. So I think its the dodgy old sata ports. The M4 should do 400MB READS. Even then the DFI-NFI is only a pci-x 1.0 specification, but, theoretically with an ad on board I should still see close to the max bandwidth the pci-x bus can do which...
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    Viable SATA3 add on card?

    I am also looking at getting a SATA 3 card but am concerned about TRIM support. Anyone know of an ad on SATA 3 card (cheap) that does actually pass TRIM commands onto the SSD? I am running an old DFI-NF4-SLI. They are listed as 'sata 2' but, back when the DFI-NF4 was released there were...