Is the difference between sata 2 vs sata 3 substantial in casual use?

[fasty1]

My mobo support sata 2/3.0gpbs i believe and its an 880gm-e35. Im planning to get the intel 320 80gb sata 2 ssd, and i was wondering that should i get sata 3 instead? I mainly just surf the web and play games i dont do a lot of file transfering and stuff.

 

[pro-gamer]

if your mobo only support sata 2 then sata 3 doesn't work on it because sata2 has 3gb/s while sata 3 has 6gb/s so no you can't.

 

[fasty1]

the intel 320 is sata 2

 

[pro-gamer]

then it's works as sata 2. and sata 2 is fine why are you want sata 3.

 

[JohnnyLucky]

You would not notice a difference between SATA 2 and SATA 3 during casual use. Your would have to run synthetic benchmarks to see a difference.

You might notice a difference when playing games. It depends on the games being played.

Do you have an older MSI motherboard? Model number 880GM-e35 is no longer listed at the MSI web site. Instead, MSI shows 880GM-e35 FX. The older 880 models did not support SATA 3 6Gb/s.

 

[fasty1]

im asking if there is a big speed difference between the two....

 

[fasty1]

im playing skyrim would that be noticable?

 

[pro-gamer]

the big difference is that sata2 transfer 3gb file in a second while sata3 transfer 6gb file in a second.

 

[pro-gamer]

im playing skyrim would that be noticable?

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