Hello all,
I have one Seagate Barracuda 250gb hard drive and two Asus SATA optical drives. I have an Asus M3A motherboard which supports both IDE and AHCI. I have WinXP Prof. 64 bit. Are there any advantages to using the AHCI over the IDE interface? I've heard that the AHCI can increase performance slightly due to what's called NCQ technology. I do know that a person needs to enable the setting in the BIOS to use it, as well as having the driver disk to install the drivers during the installation of the OS on start-up by pressing F6.
Thanks,
Micah
I have one Seagate Barracuda 250gb hard drive and two Asus SATA optical drives. I have an Asus M3A motherboard which supports both IDE and AHCI. I have WinXP Prof. 64 bit. Are there any advantages to using the AHCI over the IDE interface? I've heard that the AHCI can increase performance slightly due to what's called NCQ technology. I do know that a person needs to enable the setting in the BIOS to use it, as well as having the driver disk to install the drivers during the installation of the OS on start-up by pressing F6.
Thanks,
Micah