P8Z77-V SATA connection optimization help.

[eTanium]

There are four light blue 3GBs, two grey 6GBs, and two dark blue 6GBs ports on my motherboard.

I am using an SSD for my main OS drive, and a 1TB HDD for storage.

I am also using a SATA optical BR Burner drive. Can that communicate with the motherboard at speeds faster than 3GBs?

In addition to that, my case has a SATA port connector on top of it for easy hot swapping of drives, and an eSata connection.

I would like the SSD and the HDD to utilize the two fastest ports, as well as the having the optical drive on the best possible connection.

I'll use the remaining ports for the front panel SATA connections, because I don't see myself using those any time soon.

I read in the manual that the dark blue ports won't support optical drives? They are there for storage devices only? I know this is so that two drives can be set up in a raid and use Intel's quick start functions and such, but I don't plan on using these features. Can I still use these two ports for my SSD and HDD to their fullest potential?

Thank you.

 

[S_I_N]

put ur ssd and hdd on the intel chipset sata 6GB ports The BR drive can go on a sata 3GB port no issue it would be a waste for it to be on a sata 6GB port as it will never see those speeds. Use the other sata 6GB ports (Marvell or whatever chip it has) for your hot swap connection(s)

 

[BKCXb]

Put your Boot SSD in the Grey 6Gb port closest too you when looking at the board, thats gonna be the fastest port native to the chipset

The blue ports are native to the chipset , just slower, thats where I would put an optical drive and HDD, because they won"t even come close to 3Gb/s port speeds

External e-SATA port , I would put on the other Grey 6Gb port if you ever plan on docking an SSD, If not the blue ports will do just fine.

The Navy Blue ports are controled by an ASMedia controller and are for "fast data storage" only, they do not suport ATAPI is not supported from those ports.

 

[S_I_N]

esata is limited to 3Gb/sec so it would be a waste to use it with the intel grey port use the sata 3Gb would be better. Same chipset as the grey just sata 3Gb instead of 6Gb Save the grey for future use or put ur storage drive in it if its sata 6Gb

 

[eTanium]

Um, well I have your attention, I need to ask if you've ever installed any of the i series chips onto one of these boards?

I just tried to put my 7-3770K Ivy Bridge in, and close the metal cover, and it sounded like someone was scraping a chalk board with their finger nails. My heart jumped to my throat!

I DON'T WANT TO DAMAGE THE MOBO OR CPU!

Is this "grinding" noise supposed to be happening? The last chip set I installed actually had pins and sockets that they matched up with on the MOBO. This chip just seems to have contact points, but not pins.

I'm freaking out!

 

[S_I_N]

it should be fine its alot different from AMD cpu's lol

 

[BKCXb]

e-sata is limited to 3Gb/s??

 

[S_I_N]

actually its slower than that a true powered hot swap would be alot better than e-sata this is why I said it'd be a waste of a sata 6Gb port to use it for an e-sata connection.

 

[pickyantivirus]

I've had nothing but trouble with this board. How's yours at overclocking? I can't run RAM in dual channel and I just got a blue screen for no reason. Think it's the board but might be my CPU or RAM. Also mine made the same noise when installing the CPU, don't worry about it, it's normal.

 

[TheOsTech]

As others have said the grey intel port is where you want your ssd. the other ports don't really matter as long as they are all enabled and you have the proper drivers. Of course if you were doing a raid it would but for a single extra drive and BRd no worries whatever will work.

I have the deluxe/3770k and it works like a dream for the most part. Memory runs at xmp 2133. oc 24/7 to 4.4 at 1.2 vcore under load but using offset to get there so vcore is much less when not under load. Had it at less and worked fine but win log showed internal parity errors so bumped up the vcore and no more errors. everything feels very solid and outside of ocing no bsod.

If your plastic cover is off and your cpu is in the right spot there should be no risk of damaging anything. if you are not comfortable check everything really well one more time(maybe watch a youtube vide,reread instruct). make sure your cpu is lined up correctly. the socket puts a lot of downward pressure on the cpu by design so scraping not unheard off.

Have had one issue but its a win 8 thing. cant get vurtu mvp working under win 8 server. have done everthing correctly but win 8 server just wont have it. if I hook up to mb hdmi system will reboot everytime it tries to load windows unless I choose mb vid as the first video option in bios. Virtu seems to have no effect on this version of win. "Sigh" price of beta testing I suppose.

 

[eTanium]

So, installation went fine - aside from teh noise making me crindge. I just tried a prime95 tourture test, and my CPU got above 90C, so I stopped.

The stock fan is horrible!

I know NOTHING bout over clocking really. I know that this board has built in over clocking utilities. I had to use XAMP to get my ram frequencies and timings right, but I the results don't show up correctly in CPU-Z. Does changing to the XAMP mode automatically change things on the CPU's voltage and core clock?

I need A) Water cooling before I start messing with this.

B.) Someone to hold my hand.