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32bit Transfers

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Intelman07

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I have the P4P800 Deluxe, and I see an option for 32bit transfer for my hard drive and other drives. Should I enable this, I searched google, not really much to say about it, except it doubles it from 16bit. I seached the forums here, and people talked about it with the P4C800 deluxe, but none of them got answers to if it should be enabled or not. I am just wondering what this option is, never really seen it before. Btw, the default is disabled.
 
Every ATA standard from the very beginning up to today uses 16-bit transfers (2 bytes) since it was originally attached to the 16-bit ISA bus. Since ATA controllers are now connected to the 32-bit PCI bus, half the bus width goes to waste, so some boards give the option to bundle two 16-bit ATA transfers together into a 32-bit transfer. This may result in a minor performance increase so it should be enabled. Some controllers have it enabled by default and don't allow the user to turn it off. If the feature is available, there's no reason you'd want to turn it off, so why some BIOS's give you the option is anyone's guess.
 
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