I'm looking to get this motherboard with a SATA 500gb HDD, does this motherboard support SATA III?
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any newer motherboards like am3+ socket, should definitely have support for SATA III. But SATA 500gb HDD im guessing is a mechanical drive. And thus cant possibly use sata III lol They may label the drive as SATA III, but it makes no difference anyway. Sata II = 3Gb/s (384 MB/s) Sata III = 6 Gb/s (768 MB/s) a WD caviar black 7200 rpm drive will average 80-140 MB/s read/writes. Even 2 10k rpm wd raptors in raid0 STILL cant even use all of the bandwidth available in sata II to make sata III have a point in the first place. so really unless you have a good SSD, its completely pointless to use sata III anyway. EDIT: also want to add, SATA is backwards compatible. So you can use a sata III drive in a sata II port just fine (or vice versa), tho ofcourse you will get the slower of the 2 speeds, tho like i explained above, it makes no difference anyway. And yes, it has a pci-e x16 slot, so it will be compatible with ANY pci-e x16 graphics card. Its also backwards compatible like sata. SO you can use a pci-e x16 3.0 card in a 2.0/2.1 slot, but will be limited to the pci-e 2.0/2.1 bandwidth. Which is fine unless you are getting multi pci-e 3.0 cards or a really high end 3.0 card. EDIT2: you dont need to put edit, as its clear when asker adds details :P anyway, the gtx670 will be bottle necked by the 8150 and pci-e 2.0 Really i wouldnt suggest even getting a gtx660 (non ti) unless you are running an i5 3rd gen in a pci-e 3.0 slot. Its not that it wont like max games. Like ya, if you get a gtx670 you should still easily max most all games, but having a better cpu (like the i5 3rd gen) in a pci-e 3.0 slot, you will get better fps and resolutions. EDIT3: well the H61 board doesnt support pci-e 3.0 either . you need to get atleast an H77 board. You can drop the i5 to a 3450 and save like $10 which could be put towards an h77 board.
Yes, okorder /, but in general it's a better bet to get a SATA III motherboard directly to avoid any trouble with compatibility and so on.
