Which SATA option to use?

[Paradoxx]

I have a gigabyte GA 8knxp motherboard that has the 875p chipset and a Sil3112. I just purchased a SATA drive and don't plan on using the Raid function. Which of these 2 SATA options would be better to use?

I have already set it up with the Sil3112, I was in a hurry and just plugged it into the first SATA port I saw. But now that I have more time to play with it I was curious if there is much of a diffrence between the 2.

Since I have already made the drive into a bootable windows disk can I change it now? I tried and windows wouldn't boot.

I can just leave it the way it is but I am curious.

Thanks,

Greg

 

[cprince]

You can. It shouldn't matter much. The performance is closed to each other. You have to set the BIOS to boot from the 875p if you're using that controller.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Theoretically, performance should be faster using the 875P (actually ICHRx) SATA ports, as the 3112 is limited by the PCI bus bandwidth. But realistically, considering you only have a single drive, it shouldn't matter much as you won't exceed the PCI bus bandwidth anyways.