Will SATA 6.0 GB/SEC increase WEI?

BennyB

BennyB

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Here is my question y'all computer nuggets.

I bought an SSD to run my OS for fast loads and shutdown/restarts but my momma board is only geared for SATA 3.0 GB/SEC and as of now WEI rates the SSD at 7.0.

My SSD is a 6.0 GB/SEC but is running at 3.0 speeds because it is backwards compatible to match older tech.

Will up grading to a new motherboard geared for 6.0 increase my WEI score while maintaining my same perpetrator SSD?

Thats the question of the day folks. First one to give me some solid prove and or evidence gets a gold star and a cheese burger from yesterday. :good:
 
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BennyB said:
Here is my question y'all computer nuggets.

I bought an SSD to run my OS for fast loads and shutdown/restarts but my momma board is only geared for SATA 3.0 GB/SEC and as of now WEI rates the SSD at 7.0.

My SSD is a 6.0 GB/SEC but is running at 3.0 speeds because it is backwards compatible to match older tech.

Will up grading to a new motherboard geared for 6.0 increase my WEI score while maintaining my same perpetrator SSD?

Thats the question of the day folks. First one to give me some solid prove and or evidence gets a gold star and a cheese burger from yesterday. :good:
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It may or it may not. I wouldnt worry about your WEI score, its pretty much irrelevant to everything.

That said, you will see a much faster response from SATA 6GB/s as opposed to SATA 3GB/s. I am using a SATA 2 (3GB/s) SSD right now and I get an average read/write speed of about 160MB/s which is over double that of my HDDs, but I believe the SATA 3 (6GB/s) of my SSD doubles that at like 250GB/s or something. Dont remember exact numbers, but I know it was considerably faster. So your PC would probably boot twice as fast, but in terms of anything else you wont really notice a difference.

My opinion, its not worth upgrading your board just for SATA3 capability as SATA2 really isnt saturated yet.
 
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FuryRosewood said:
with a ssd you would see signifiant speed increases over sata ii, upwards of 500mb/s
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But I think the real question here is, is it worth buying a new motherboard just to have SATA3? I would say no, as SATA2 will already be almost instantaneous you wouldnt notice the difference in the real world aside from boot up maybe.
 
G80FTW said:
But I think the real question here is, is it worth buying a new motherboard just to have SATA3? I would say no, as SATA2 will already be almost instantaneous you wouldnt notice the difference in the real world aside from boot up maybe.
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Im am real tempted. I can get a sweet Sata 6.0gb/sec and the newer AMD 990FX chipset MB with USB 3.0 for about 90 bucks.

I just want to believe I will be able to notice a difference! :rolleyes:
 
BennyB said:
Im am real tempted. I can get a sweet Sata 6.0gb/sec and the newer AMD 990FX chipset MB with USB 3.0 for about 90 bucks.

I just want to believe I will be able to notice a difference! :rolleyes:
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Exactly what board do you have now? Sometimes a newer chipset can speed things along, and for $90 thats a good deal hopefully it is from a respected brand. I myself dont venture outside of ASUS for motherboards.

If you can pick up a board with a newer chipset for $90 then I would go for it. That sounds like a good deal to me. Just make sure the board has EVERYTHING you want in the future, like enough PCI-E slots if you plan to SLi/Crossfire and can support enough RAM for expansion.

What sells me on motherboards today is SATA ports. If it doesnt have enough SATA ports, Im not into it. I need at least 10 SATA 2 ports.
 
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I miss spoke.

Price is a little higher but not by much. 114.99 after rebates.

I agree with the Asus, those are the only board I have experience with and they are strong plat forms.

Thinking this board: Mother Board Looks like I will have to get another 16gbs of memory....damn :eek:
 
1. It depends on what SSD you have for whether the bandwidth of SATA 2 will be a bottleneck.

2.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130650

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128514

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130620

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128510

would be better options

3. The 32GB is the maximum supported memory, not the necessary memory. You can run with a single 1GB DIMM, it will work as well as if you have 4 x 8GB. Your current 16GB is overkill, upgrading further is tantamount to throwing money away

4. If you don't need the additional features of a new motherboard, would it not be cheaper and easier to simply get a SATA 3.0 expansion card?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815287017

Whilst you don't get the benefits of the new mobo (What those are without knowing your current setup is impossible to say), you get what you need, STAA 3.0 connectors, for a quarter of the price

5. Ignore the WEI, it is the most pointless and stupid thing MS have come up with, apart from UAC. It isn't accurate at all, it isn't actually indicative of performance or able to be used for comparison of performance of components.
 
To answer the question, yes, SATA 6GB/s does increase the WEI score. My M4 scores 7.3 on SATA 3GB/s with no AHCI, scores 7.9 on SATA 6GB/s with AHCI.

Don't get too fussed about the numbers though, at the end of the day it really doesn't matter.
 
The WEI is the only benchmark that even remotely matters in the history of home computering... (You can go ahead and quote that in your sig now)
 
Laquer Head said:
The WEI is the only benchmark that even remotely matters in the history of home computering... (You can go ahead and quote that in your sig now)
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Yeah I dunno where the hardware magazines/sites would be without the WEI. How would they be ever able to tell how fast hardware performed in comparison to other pieces of hardware without the WEI? <- insert sarcasm here
 
I ran 4 SSD's in RAID, 5GHZ overclocked i7 quad, SLI'ed 570s, and 16GB ram...yet the WEI in its infinite power and wisdom rated that configuration at 7.6
 
CPU bottleneck? It's extremely hard to get 7.9 for the CPU, you can easily get 7.9 for anything else. I get 7.9 for 16GBs of RipJaws-X CAS-9 1648MHz. :/ Everything else is 7.8 apart from the CPU which is at 7.6.
 
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