SATA II and AGP

[elcameeeno]

I am upgrading to an ATHLON 64 system and want to use a 939 socket based motherboard. I am unsuccessful in locating a MB that supports both AGP 8x and SATA II. Is there a reason they are mutually exclusive? If they do exist, does anyone have any affordable recommendations?

TIA!

 

[Guest]

YOu probably want to keep your AGP card...thats my best guess.
As far as I know, SATA-II controller only come integrated with nforce4,i945/955, the new Xpress200(by ati)...

I have yet to see sata-II on nforce3, the reason is that no further development goes in the nf3 since its older tech...

You can look around, yuou might find a SATA-II conrtroller on PCIe 1X...dont know about the price thought.

Finally even if sata-II is nice too have, it doesnt bring much more performance(if any) at the moment. If you really care about future-proofing yoru platform, you should opt for nf4 and PCIe.

Asus P4P800DX, P4C 2.6ghz@3.25ghz, 2X512 OCZ PC4000 3-4-4-8, MSI 6800Ultra stock, 2X30gig Raid0

 

[elcameeeno]

You hit the nail on the head. I just invested in a 256mb GeForce AGP video card. I have a WD 160gb SATA II drive (Backwards compatible to 150). I guess if the performance diff between SATA 150 and SATA II is not all that great I'll go with a 939/AGP/SATA 150 setup. Does this sound reasonable?

 

[fishmahn]

Yep, that sounds good.

Except for the 10k RPM Raptor, today's hard drives have trouble saturating an ATA/100 bus (Raptor can hit it in peaks), so its next to impossible to saturate an SATA/150 bus, let alone SATAII with today's drives.

Mike.

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[Guest]

Just thought about this <A HREF="http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2471&p=2" target="_new">ULI chipset</A>

But doesnt seam to support SATA-II either, but in the longer run might come in handy to have a PCIe too!

No too mention, some mfr might add a 3rd party sata-II controller!
If you can wait a bit we'll see some mobo with the chipset!

Asus P4P800DX, P4C 2.6ghz@3.25ghz, 2X512 OCZ PC4000 3-4-4-8, MSI 6800Ultra stock, 2X30gig Raid0