Hi guys Daft question, but I can run a Sata III Samsung 830SSD on my X38 Asus Maximus Extreme mobo can't I? I don't want to have the trouble of sending the thing back if it doesn't work. http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_775/Maximus_Extreme/#specifications http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-128...QPUA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1349095842&sr=8-1 Cheers Pedro
Yes it will work perfectly fine, though you will only have SataII speeds. But if it is your first SSD, those speeds should be more than enough to give a really big impact.
I certainly noticed it on my trusty old P5K Premium. Boot times dropped from 1min52, to 30 seconds. BF3 map loading times dropped massively and the game seems to run better.
It will work just fine. The only thing is that your sequential read and write will be limited by SATA-2. But unless you work with very large files, it should not affect you, and you should, pretty much, get full advantage of the SATA if you don't want to be technical, by a few points in benchmark score. Here is my SSD on SATA-2 4K is what mathers the most, for every day task and the majority of games, and as you can see, it's far from the max speed of SATA-2
