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Asus A8V. Via or Promise for SATA?

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Phantronius

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I've heard a variety of things of where to connect my SATA drives on my new ASUS A8V. People say don't use the VIA because people have found with heavy overclocking, it fragments the drives and eventually destroys them, other say don't do promise cause the performance sucks.

Ive got two brand new Seagate Barracuda 160gig SATA drives come and I will not be doing RAID, they will be standalone drives. I do plan on pushing the system decently but not to the extremes for overclocking. Im dissapointed that the VIA has to share the PCI bus with the SATA and the Gigabit ethernet, but im not trustworthy of MSI or Epox for an Nforce 3 board, so I went with the ASUS instead.

What have you guys found will be the most stabile and fastest? Also, should I grab the newest VIA drivers for my new machine or just use the ones on the CD? Iv'e been away from the VIA world since getting an Intel setup last year.
 
Currently I'm using the VIA controller with my 160 Gig WD SATA. I'm also overclocked to 278x9=2502. The board is a revision 2 with working locks and I have had no problems with the SATA drive at all. There hasn't been any fragmentation other than when I'm adding new files to the drive, so I feel using the VIA is a good choice with the revision 2. If you have the revision 1, then I have no idea. Hopefully someone else can help with that if that is what you have.
 
VIA SATA works fine for my Raptor and I. 🙂 My 3200+ is currently @ 260x10. Board is rev 2 as well.
 
What was your settings for that overclock? Did you reduce the HT to 800 and increase the latency settings on your ram? Im confused on the new world of overclocking the AMD 64's, Ive been with Intel for awhile.
 
At 260 I reduced my HT divider to 600 (or 3x, depending on who you ask). I'm currently trying to find the limit of my CPU alone. RAM is still running tight, under 200mhz.
 
No Frangments Here either I tried the Promis first and swiched to VIA. all Locks working fine. my current O/C is all my chip seems to like at 1.4v
 
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