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P7P55D-E LX and Sata 6gbps?

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Just hideously confused here about whether the P7P55D-E LX supports Sata 3.0 speeds without turning the PCI-E 16x into a 8x. There's the IO Level up feature that supposedly boosts the speeds from Sata 2 to Sata 3 speeds at the expense of PCI-E bandwidth. But I do realize that the motherboard also has a stand alone Marvell controller that supposedly supports Sata 3.0 speeds but what I am unsure is whether it is also affected by IO Level Up.

I guess my questions is can I use my SSD on the Marvell ports and still keep x16 on my PCI-E? If I can't...then I guess it's time for a system overhaul, new mobo and CPU >.<

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Yes, you can. But the marvell SATAIII ports don't like the real SATAIII, if you use it for SSD then you only can get the performances like SATAII.

In real usage you will not feel the difference between them only you can see in the benchmark. And the differences are depend on case by case, I will recommend use the intel SATAII for the SSD if you use SSD. ALso you can do your own benchmark to see which one is better but only compared the 4K read and write speed.
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