cmay119
02-28-2006, 01:29 PM
Hi all, My uncle built a computer with the following specs:
DFI Lanparty UT nF3 250Gb
Athlon 64 3200+ C0 Revision
2x1024MB Kingston ValueRam
Built By ATI X850XT
2x Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 80GB 3.0Gb/s SATAII HDD in RAID 0
Antec Smart Power 2.0 450 Watt PSU
Soundblaster X-Fi Platinum Edition
He doesn't overclock, and he's all in all very happy with his system. He would however, like to get full bandwidth out of his RAID-0 Array. Since it's the nF3 250Gb Chipset it only supports SATA150.
What I'd like to know, is if he picks up a SATAII 3.0Gb/s Controller card, will the PCI bus be able to handle the bandwidth on which SataII would bring. Or would it be a lost cause because of a bottleneck in the PCI Bus.
He doesn't plan on upgrading in a long time, so moving to an nF4 Chipset motherboard with a PCI Express slot would be out of the question to him. Even if it supports AGP at the same time.
He has a couple other devices on his PCI bus right now including:
Soundblaster X-Fi Platinum
D-Link Wireless 802.11g Adapter
ATi TV Tuner card.
How would performance be with these on the PCI bus at the same time?
What if he took out the network card and the TV Tuner card, and only left in the X-Fi?
He's thinking about moving to a USB Wireless adaptor and an external TV Tuner device anyways, so this wouldn't be a problem to remove them.
Thanks in advance guys. :)
This is the SATAII Card in question:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16816102060
DFI Lanparty UT nF3 250Gb
Athlon 64 3200+ C0 Revision
2x1024MB Kingston ValueRam
Built By ATI X850XT
2x Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 80GB 3.0Gb/s SATAII HDD in RAID 0
Antec Smart Power 2.0 450 Watt PSU
Soundblaster X-Fi Platinum Edition
He doesn't overclock, and he's all in all very happy with his system. He would however, like to get full bandwidth out of his RAID-0 Array. Since it's the nF3 250Gb Chipset it only supports SATA150.
What I'd like to know, is if he picks up a SATAII 3.0Gb/s Controller card, will the PCI bus be able to handle the bandwidth on which SataII would bring. Or would it be a lost cause because of a bottleneck in the PCI Bus.
He doesn't plan on upgrading in a long time, so moving to an nF4 Chipset motherboard with a PCI Express slot would be out of the question to him. Even if it supports AGP at the same time.
He has a couple other devices on his PCI bus right now including:
Soundblaster X-Fi Platinum
D-Link Wireless 802.11g Adapter
ATi TV Tuner card.
How would performance be with these on the PCI bus at the same time?
What if he took out the network card and the TV Tuner card, and only left in the X-Fi?
He's thinking about moving to a USB Wireless adaptor and an external TV Tuner device anyways, so this wouldn't be a problem to remove them.
Thanks in advance guys. :)
This is the SATAII Card in question:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16816102060