NewBIE P67 Extreme 4 Gen3

[amitty870]

First time I've ever purchased a decent/advanced motherboard and I have a noob question.
Why is there two different sata chipsets on the board? I read over at crucial that I should make sure to use Intel for SSD drives. Does the Marvell have poor performance compared to Intel, is it ok to use for mechanical drives?

Thanks
Dan

[inigmatus]

Re: NewBIE P67 Extreme 4 Gen3

You know, I've wondered about this as well. Is there any performance increase? Do Marvel controllers have to be installed in order to use those SATA ports?

I do know the Intel ports are default, and should be used for your OS as this is the SATA 3 port 0 marked on the board.

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Re: NewBIE P67 Extreme 4 Gen3

To install more than 2 sata_3 drives.
It was also usefull (to me) when intels chipset had a problem with the sata_2 ports
Marvell is fine for mechanical drives. Ive never tested ssd's on it.

Like in the manual.use 0 and 1 (intel) for your sata 3 drives. If you have more than 2 of those ,You have Marvel.
also like in the manual dont enable Marvel drives bootable if you arent going to use them as such.

If you dont have any sata 3 drives at all u can use the 2 intal sata3 capable ports (backward compatible) and the sata 2 ports which are now "safe" to use once your mbrd is a b3 and above chipset revision.

[SaphireX]

Re: NewBIE P67 Extreme 4 Gen3

Quick answer...The Intel SATA-3 ports and the SATA-2 ports are native to the P67 chipset whilst the add-on Marvel SATA-3 ports require driver install within windows hence why it's recommended that your OS drive be connected to the native Intel SATA-3 or SATA-2 ports. If your SSD is SATA-3 then you have 2 native Intel SATA-3 ports to choose from -recommend the port-0 one...

[amitty870]

Re: NewBIE P67 Extreme 4 Gen3

the sata 2 ports which are now "safe" to use once your mbrd is a b3 and above chipset revision.

What was the problem with the sata 2 ports and how do I know what revision I have of the chipset?

Thank you everyone for your assists!
Dan

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Re: NewBIE P67 Extreme 4 Gen3

since yours is labelled gen 3 its more recent. The asrock p67b2 boards were only available from about jan-feb 2011.
People who were buying in February like myself knew there was a possible problem but board manufacturers had already started to announce "exchange programs" swop yer board for the new b3 version for free.Asrock threw in an extra years guarantee if you swopped before June.
The fixed chipset B3 revision boards came back on the market around march /early april with a B3-sata problem fixed! sticker on them.(it was some small mess up where a spec should have been like 1000 instead of 10000and could have led to your hdd becoming unreadable after continuous long term use.
Newr ones again like from June onward may not even have this sticker on them as they probably want to forget it,Im sure intel does.
Wouldnt be any problem with yours.