pci - sata card vs. onboard sata

[nightraven00]

Does a pci - sata card run just as fast as an onboard sata port?

 

[RaiderJ]

If they are both on the PCI bus then I think it would come down to the SATA chipset. Chances are you'd never notice a difference between the two.

 

[nightraven00]

Well the probelm is I somehow during my overclocking process fried? my onboard sata ports so I bought a pci - sata adapter, reinstalled Vista(which took way longer than it did with the onboard ports) and I finally got booted into Vista again but everything is DOG ASS SLOW!!. Its taking forever to do anything now when before it was all creamy smooth. Is there something I need to do to get it back up to speed?

 

[RaiderJ]

My thought would be to try a different SATA card with a different chipset to see if there's a difference. Are there any that'll fit in you PCI-x slots?

However, I'm not familiar enough with the hardware differences to know if that would fix your problem. Maybe check the BIOS too?

 

[TeeJay1952]

Turn off the SATA in BIOS.

 

[nightraven00]

SATA is off in the bios

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

OP, what motherboard are you using? And do you have PCie or PCI-X slots on the motherboard, or are you using a RAID controller in the 32-bit 33MHz PCI slots?

 

[nightraven00]

So basically for what a PCI-X or PCIe would cost I would be better off buying a new motherboard?

 

[RaiderJ]

PCI-X - 66Mhz PCI
PCI-E - PCI Express

You probably don't have any PCIx slots (typo on my part earlier), and I'm not sure a PCIe card would fix the slowdown. If it was from overclocking, something else might have fried too, not just your SATA ports.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Originally posted by: nightraven00
So basically for what a PCI-X or PCIe would cost I would be better off buying a new motherboard?

Correction... I missed your second post that you made. Yes, in this instance, the best thing would be to get a new mobo.

 

[nightraven00]

All I am trying to do is get my sata drive back up and running. Since the onboard ports stopped responding I bought this:http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi...&viewitem=&item=170083853791&rd=1&rd=1

 

[Captante]

Originally posted by: nightraven00
Well the probelm is I somehow during my overclocking process fried? my onboard sata ports so I bought a pci - sata adapter, reinstalled Vista(which took way longer than it did with the onboard ports) and I finally got booted into Vista again but everything is DOG ASS SLOW!!. Its taking forever to do anything now when before it was all creamy smooth. Is there something I need to do to get it back up to speed?

This shouldn't be the case ... you might experience a small slow-down due to differences between the chipsets used in the SATA controllers but thats about it. Its possible you have some kind of driver conflict caused between the original SATA driver & the driver for the Maxtor PCI card, so you might want to try uninstalling & re-installing both, but I think its more likely that you damaged the motherboard beyond simply killing the SATA ports.

 

[traderonline]

i have a pci sata card and it doesn't show any noticeable lag. it'd be better to go for a new motherboard

 

[nightraven00]

Well I went back to using one of my old pata drives and it works fine now...? I'll just make due for now until I can pawn off a bunch of my extra pc stuff so I can buy another board. Thannks for all the info.