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Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI & NCQ

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bellang

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Hello, can anyone tell me whether the Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI supports NCQ? I believe the chipset does, however I cant see anywhere to actually turn this on.

Thanks.
 
Originally posted by: bellang
Hello, can anyone tell me whether the Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI supports NCQ? I believe the chipset does, however I cant see anywhere to actually turn this on.

Thanks.
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I have the same question about the GA-K8NXP-9. I downloaded the manual from the Gigabyte website, and couldn't find any reference at all to NCQ. If indeed NCQ is supported, what does one need to do to enable to function (assuming one has a NCQ HD)?
 
It seems to be the same for a lot of the Ultra/SLI Nforce4 motherboards. The chipset man. talks about it in details, yet the motherboard man.'s dont seem to touch on it. Have two NCQ HDD do hope it does!
 
Originally posted by: user1234
you two noob's should rtfm more carefully, the answers are all there
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User1234, attempting a flame troll, little man?

I suggest YOU read my previous post about reading manuals. Perhaps a course in remedial reading comprehension would help you. But I doubt it. Your problems are much deeper.
 
I'm not too sure, however, there is native SATA II support on that motherboard.

Because of that, I imagine NCQ is indeed supported. However, I can't promise you that.

Shoot gigabyte an email, they'll get back to within 24 hours. They really do answer their emails.
 
Originally posted by: toot
But it would be nice to know HOW to enable/disable it, since it is there.
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Right! And it's important to know this up front. For at least SOME MBs, if you don't do things in the proper order, you have to re-install your OS.


Enabling NCQ
 
If you need to do something well, do it your self..... ;-)

Found it. Device manager, IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers, go to the ADMA Controller (I have two.....), the second one in my list allows me to change the settings in the primary & secondary channel tab (first one doesnt, all greyed). 4th tick box down, Enable Command Queuing!

Do I win a prize?
 
I don't know if this helps. Bjorn3d review on the baraccuda ncq hds here:

http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=734&pageID=1211

He turned on the AHCI in the award bios. It is found under the Integrated Peripherals section and labeled SATA RAID/AHCI. AHCI, which stands for Advanced Host Controller Interface, is the option that allows NCQ to work on a single drive and will allow installation of the Intel SATA AHCI controller driver
 
Originally posted by: juysocal
I don't know if this helps. Bjorn3d review on the baraccuda ncq hds here:

http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=734&pageID=1211

He turned on the AHCI in the award bios. It is found under the Integrated Peripherals section and labeled SATA RAID/AHCI. AHCI, which stands for Advanced Host Controller Interface, is the option that allows NCQ to work on a single drive and will allow installation of the Intel SATA AHCI controller driver
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This is the same procedure, for Intel 915P-chipset MBs, mentioned in the Anandtech review I linked to in my previous post.

I'm wondering if bellang, for his NF4 ultra MB, needs also to install NCQ drivers and whether the OS needs to be re-installed. I mean how would you ever know if the the HD was actually using NCQ? Unless you performed the same performance test on the HD both before and after the NCQ enable (or enabled only one of two identical HDs with NCQ and compared their performance after the NCQ enable), I doubt there's any way to tell.
 
I'd be interested to see if anyone who hasnt got NCQ drives, has this check box 'tickable' in their device manager (and they also have a NF4 ultra or sli board).

Checked BIOS, nothing under Integrated Peripherals to turn on AHCI..... Sounds like there's something different between AMD /Intel boards here.
 
Originally posted by: shira
Originally posted by: toot
But it would be nice to know HOW to enable/disable it, since it is there.
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Right! And it's important to know this up front. For at least SOME MBs, if you don't do things in the proper order, you have to re-install your OS.


Enabling NCQ
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not a big deal, if you're using windows, you're probably used to reinstalling your OS every other month anyways

[pwned]
 
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