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Why do amd AM3+ Mobos Always have far less sata ports than the squillion typical Intel gaming boards that you find? it seems they all for the most part only have around six standard, ive only seen one with eight; but ive seen Intel boards with up ten or more. Is this because of some sort of bandwidth or other amd CPU issue or am i just being a tenacious douche when it comes to motherboard buying? IF any one Knows of any AM3+ boards with more than six sata 3 ports PLEASE list them.
And please no "because amd sucks" answers...
 
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I'm an AMD guy. There's a few boards actually:

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5292#ov

https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/CROSSHAIR_V_FORMULAZ/

https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/SABERTOOTH_990FXGEN3_R20/

http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/990FX%20Extreme9/

It's because the AMD chipset, even the 990fx chipset, doesn't support more than 6 sata ports. If you look at those motherboard's specs, you'll notice those extra sata ports are connected to a different controller. Even in the BIOS, they are separated from the rest of them. I don't know about Intel's technique but I guess their controller supports more sata ports.
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I'm an AMD guy. There's a few boards actually:

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5292#ov

https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/CROSSHAIR_V_FORMULAZ/

https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/SABERTOOTH_990FXGEN3_R20/

http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/990FX%20Extreme9/

It's because the AMD chipset, even the 990fx chipset, doesn't support more than 6 sata ports. If you look at those motherboard's specs, you'll notice those extra sata ports are connected to a different controller. Even in the BIOS, they are separated from the rest of them. I don't know about Intel's technique but I guess their controller supports more sata ports.
 
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workstation-class boards tend to have more SATA ports, and those tend to also use Intel processors due to CPU strength, ECC support, and other built-in technologies. the extra SATA just comes along for the ride and are typically handled by another separate controller like a Marvell chip. i assume that the board makers trickle that down to desktop-class boards too.

there's FM2+ boards that have 8 SATA ports, even in a mATX format. and anyways, you can also buy a SATA controller card that fits into your PCI or PCIe slot for extra ports.
 
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Yeah, the thing is to get the most ports with a single card, not all motherboards have lots of spare PCI-E slots, but it is expensive indeed.
 
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