Does my motherboard support AHCI mode?

[AdRa20]

I am considering buying an SSD! I have heard that those things work best in AHCI mode rather than IDE mode. Anyways, my decision to buy/not buy ssd and upgrade the whole MB depends on whether it supports AHCI.

I downloaded CPU-z and details are as follows:

motherboard -- DL-G41MX3-LT

Pic attached:
LINK

It says southbridge is ICH7/R which means that according to THIS wikipedia article, it must support AHCI. Am i right in assuming that it does?

 

[Zerk2012]

Go into the BIOS and look and see if it does.
Their not much difference in performance. I've put them in a lot of PC's with just IDE and it's still a huge performance increase.
http://archive.benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=505&Itemid=38&limit=1&limitstart=3

 

[AdRa20]

Go into the BIOS and look and see if it does.
Their not much difference in performance. I've put them in a lot of PC's with just IDE and it's still a huge performance increase.
http://archive.benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=505&Itemid=38&limit=1&limitstart=3

Wow! 4k performs better in IDE mode! Holy shit

How do i check in BIOS?

 

[Zerk2012]

When you go into BIOS it should list it in the SATA controller.

 

[Calvin7]

DL-G41MX3-LT
Intel LGA775 Series
Technical Specifications:

South Bridge : Intel ICH7
http://smartlink.co.in/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2014/07/data-products-DIGILITE-DIGILITE-INTEL-LGA775-Series-downloads-DL-G41MX3-LT.pdf

This is not ICH7R, motherboard has no RAID or AHCI.

Your picture shows Intel 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family)

 

[AdRa20]

DL-G41MX3-LT
Intel LGA775 Series
Technical Specifications:

South Bridge : Intel ICH7
http://smartlink.co.in/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2014/07/data-products-DIGILITE-DIGILITE-INTEL-LGA775-Series-downloads-DL-G41MX3-LT.pdf

This is not ICH7R, motherboard has no RAID or AHCI.

Your picture shows Intel 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family)

I just posted screenshot direretly from CPU-Z. That's why i was a little confused.

82801GR DOES have AHCI support according to wikipedia. This could be a modified version or something

 

[Zerk2012]

DL-G41MX3-LT
Intel LGA775 Series
Technical Specifications:

South Bridge : Intel ICH7
http://smartlink.co.in/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2014/07/data-products-DIGILITE-DIGILITE-INTEL-LGA775-Series-downloads-DL-G41MX3-LT.pdf

This is not ICH7R, motherboard has no RAID or AHCI.
It don't really matter go into BIOS and see if you can find it or just install one good performance boost either way.

Your picture shows Intel 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family)

I just posted screenshot direretly from CPU-Z. That's why i was a little confused.

82801GR DOES have AHCI support according to wikipedia. This could be a modified version or something

 

[akseli]

It doesn't have ahci, motherboard chipset is G41.

Some of these programs display two things at same time. There is no " ICH7/R". There is ICH7 and ICH7R, just like there is 82801GB and 82801GR. Your's doesn't have raid so it doesn't have ahci either.