SATA and Overclocking question

[Pez D Spencer]

I just got an A8N32-SLI mobo 2GB of XMS PX3500, and an Opteron 170. Im still new to overclocking but want to overclock this new system. However I am confused about one thing.

The quick and dirty guide on this forum says "Sata 1 and 2 are not locked on some nforce mobos use 3 and 4." Does this mean that I should use SATA 3 or 4 for my hard drive when overclocking since I have an nForce chipset? Im not real clear on what that statement means. I only have one SATA hard drive in this system.

Thanks for any help on this.

 

[AZReDWiNG]

YES! Use SATA3/4. I am running on an A8N-SLI and made this mistake, and my HDD has become corrupted, requiring a brand new installation.

 

[Aznguy1872]

I have a DFI Lanparty mobo and I have my HDD on sata 1 and 2. Should I move them to 3 and 4? If I do, nothing will go wrong with my harddrives right?

 

[sparkey]

i'd kind of like to have a reply to AZNGUY1872's question i know the wors that can happen is a reinstall of windoze but if i can avoid it i would be a lot happiethanks tom

 

[Aznguy1872]

anybody?

 

[sparkey]

sorry for the bump but i really would like to know
and thanks for understanding
tom

 

[drakleon]

quick stupid SATA question. I'm running 2 raptors in raid-0 SATA 3&4 and an additional IDE drive for storage.

everything works fine it seems but I have systray option to "Remove hardware" and it shows the 2 raptor drives. In my hard disk properties/drivers it just shows "RAID controller" device and such (drivers from 2002 too, not sure how to update, says they're updated).

on top of this, I can't benchmark the raid drive, i get results like 0.001 mb/s on any pc mark hdd test. not sure if the above info indicates a mistake by me installing drivers and such, but something seems fishy. advice appreicated. running on win x64 btw.

 

[Pez D Spencer]

I moved my HDD to SATA 3, did a 25% OC of the system and have no problems yet.