AHCI Mode in bios

[gizbug]

Run vista 64 on a gaming computer at home. Should I enable this in the bios, or leave it disabled? I run SATA drives, but not in raid configuration.
I am not sure if there is a benefit to enable it or not.

 

[Spicedaddy]

Unless you need the hot-swapping feature, leave it off. Performance is the same...

 

[The Keeper]

Performance greatly depends on how good implementation of NCQ your hard drive(s) have. Most consumer SATA drives have piss poor NCQ implementation. Seagate 7200.11 has received a lot of praise for their great NCQ perfomance.. Samsung F1 and new Western Digital Caviars (the ones with 320GB platters) have received mixed NCQ performance results.

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