Does my motherboard support SATA 3?

[Shawn23]

I have a stock motherboard that came with the dell studio XPS 435MT, and I'm looking to upgrade my hard drive, and i was wondering if my motherboard supported SATA 3 or not.

 

[Outlaw1198]

Well we need to know the motherboard before we can tell you

 

[Shawn23]

how do i find my motherboard name?

 

[Dereck47]

Most manufacturers advertise if their system has SATA 3 (6Gb/s) ports.
Since SATA 3 is not mentioned in the system specs for the XPS 435MT then most likely it only has SATA 2 (3Gb/s) ports.

To get additional info on your motherboard, download and run CPU-Z from CPUID.com.
Click on the "Mainboard" tab and it will give you info on your motherboard.

 

[Shawn23]

Yes, i looked that motherboard up and it only supports SATA 2. Thanks for that but i have one more question. Since i still want to upgrade my HDD, what would be a good one to get? I do play a lot of PC games, and i want to find a HDD that suits gaming the best that is SATA 2.

 

[Dereck47]

Get a SATA 3 HDD even though you will be connecting it to a SATA 2 port.
Even though a SATA 3 HDD cannot spin fast enough to achieve SATA 3 speeds, it is still faster than a SATA 2 HDD.

The 1TB and 2TB HDDs from Seagate have Read/Write speeds of 210MB/s. http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives/desktop-hard-drives/desktop-hdd/

 

[Shawn23]

Okay i will get the 1TB version. Thanks for all the help i was really confused haha

 

[Dereck47]

No problem!