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SATA Converter or NO?

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Khyron320

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I just got the IC7-G it came with ONE SATA converter to use an IDE drive on the SATA port. Im guessing using the SATA port will make whatever drive i hook it up to use much less cpu time because the SATA does not go threw the PCI bus... Or am i wrong in assuming this?

Im going to run a bunch of test with the same drive on the IDE then with the converter when my cpu arrives What benchmark program can show me HD cpu utilization?
 

Im guessing using the SATA port will make whatever drive I hook it up to use much less cpu time because the SATA does not go threw the PCI bus
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From what I've read the only time you will see increased performance is if and when you saturate the PCI bus (133 MB/sec theoretical-approx. 115 max actual)-then "bypassing" the bus will help. I know that SATA has a max thruput of 150MB/s but I don't think the current hds can actually reach that number.
With todays machines running CPUs at 2Ghz+ IMHO CPU utilization is not an issue.

Im going to run a bunch of test with the same drive on the IDE then with the converter when my cpu arrives What benchmark program can show me HD cpu utilization?
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Get Testa Labs HD Tach from here and run the test, it will show you the Avg read speed, Avg access time and CPU utilization


Mike G
 
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