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I've just upgraded a 2008 PC with a SATA II mobo with a SATA III SSD. It plugs in just like any other SATA hard drive (although I needed a special mounting bracket to make it fit a 3.5" drive bay - most SSDs are 2.5") and then you clone your boot drive over to it using whatever clone software...

I've just upgraded my parents' 2008-vintage Vista PC (32-bit Home Basic) with a SanDisk SSD in place of the old boot drive. It now runs much faster, as you'd expect, but only if you leave the BIOS set to "Native IDE". If you set it to "IDE>AHCI" (which is the only AHCI-related option), it boots...