Just built a new system around a Gigabyte X58A-UD3R.
Very happy with how quickly and easily the build went.
About how the bandwidth is shared across the SATA controllers I'm a bit unclear.
I have three SATA devices, thusly:
* SATA 3.0 new hard drive on the 6Gb/s Marvell 9128 (port 6)
* older SATA i think a 1.5Gb/s on the Gigabyte SATA2 (port 8)
* SATA dvd drive, on the ICH10R (port 3)
Am I slowing down my SATA 6G drive by having these other older devices connected?
Oh, and the USB connectors... I seem to have a problem if i connect the cables to the external USB ports on the front of my case to the USB connectors on the motherboard bottom edge, then the usb ports on the back of the mobo dont work. Is this normal?
Very happy with how quickly and easily the build went.
About how the bandwidth is shared across the SATA controllers I'm a bit unclear.
I have three SATA devices, thusly:
* SATA 3.0 new hard drive on the 6Gb/s Marvell 9128 (port 6)
* older SATA i think a 1.5Gb/s on the Gigabyte SATA2 (port 8)
* SATA dvd drive, on the ICH10R (port 3)
Am I slowing down my SATA 6G drive by having these other older devices connected?
Oh, and the USB connectors... I seem to have a problem if i connect the cables to the external USB ports on the front of my case to the USB connectors on the motherboard bottom edge, then the usb ports on the back of the mobo dont work. Is this normal?