Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI & NCQ

bellang · Jan 26, 2005

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.

shira · Jan 26, 2005

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.

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)?

bellang · Jan 26, 2005

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!

user1234 · Jan 26, 2005

you two noob's should rtfm more carefully, the answers are all there

shira · Jan 26, 2005

Originally posted by: user1234
you two noob's should rtfm more carefully, the answers are all there

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.

GRAFiZ · Jan 26, 2005

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.

SunSamurai · Jan 26, 2005

SATA II supports NCQ. The board has four SATA II ports.

Trente · Jan 26, 2005

Originally posted by: GRAFiZ
Shoot gigabyte an email, they'll get back to within 24 hours. They really do answer their emails.

True that!

SunSamurai · Jan 26, 2005

You do not need to email anyone. SATA II REQUIRES NCQ ability. Its part of the spec!

imported_toot · Jan 26, 2005

But it would be nice to know HOW to enable/disable it, since it is there.

shira · Jan 26, 2005

Originally posted by: toot
But it would be nice to know HOW to enable/disable it, since it is there.

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

imported_toot · Jan 26, 2005

That's useful if you're using Intel's chipset.. but not so useful for nForce4

bellang · Jan 26, 2005

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?

imported_toot · Jan 26, 2005

Nice find! So it doesn't even require an OS re-install?

bellang · Jan 26, 2005

Doesnt appear too. Turned mine on, rebooted, went back in and the boxes still checked. Will see how it goes.....

SunSamurai · Jan 26, 2005

Originally posted by: toot
But it would be nice to know HOW to enable/disable it, since it is there.

rtfm ??

imported_toot · Jan 26, 2005

It's not in the f'ing manual

juysocal · Jan 26, 2005

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

shira · Jan 26, 2005

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

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.

bellang · Jan 27, 2005

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.

user1234 · Jan 27, 2005

Originally posted by: shira

Originally posted by: toot
But it would be nice to know HOW to enable/disable it, since it is there.

Click to expand...

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

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

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