Do I need to enable NCQ to use it?

[NervousNovice]

I got a MSI mobo (the ATi Xpress200 S939 mATX one) for my friend and I also picked up a Seagate SATA hdd 160G w/NCQ for him.

Recently, I read something somewhere that I need to enable the NCQ function (in BIOS?) and hence the mobo needs to support such feature. Is that true? Or is it that you plug the hdd in and it will have that NCQ thingy working?

I looked into that MSI mobo Phoneix Bios and I see no NCQ, no where does the mobo say anything about such support or stuff like that. So I guess if such support is needed to enable NCQ, my friend is out of luck.

 

[leedog2007]

I know with the nforce 4, it is automatically enabled. I don't know about the ATI chipset.

 

[imported_Phil]

Is he running a server? If not, then NCQ will not show any improvement.

 

[ribbon13]

http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.asp?id=diamondmax10&page=8

Look at NCQ enabled vs disabled... 2/3 makes it slower

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: ribbon13
http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.asp?id=diamondmax10&page=8

Look at NCQ enabled vs disabled... 2/3 makes it slower

Arf

Hopefully soon the case-modding brigade will drop it.