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with a dual boot to some arcane O/S unknown even to Bulgarian hackers.
If I had known 40 years ago what I know today about wasted time, I would have never touched that first microcomputer. In fact, I should have known better than to start out tinkering with the cards in a DEC PDP 11/23 (with 64KB RAM and 14-inch removable platters holding a seemingly limitless 5MB, no less).
For at least a year, I've been trying to get Windows 8.1 and my trusty ASUS AMD M4A785-M m/b, with its (formerly) dusty PCIe 2.0 x 1 slot, to recognize a SATA III card—any 2-port, non-RAID, SATA III, PCIe 2.0 x 1 card, such as the HighPoint Rocket 620A, or the IoCrest (SYBA) ASM1061 SY-PEX40039, or you name it—in order to accelerate from 3.0 Gb/s (SATA II) to a gut-flattening 4.0 Gb/s (SATA III on PCIe 2.0 x 1).
Had I known PCIe would be this chancy, I should have bit the bullet and upgraded to a new ASUS AMD m/b with 8 GB of DDR3 (or DDR4), upgradeable to 16 GB, and an M2 SSD card with more than 111 GB. But even if that upgrade only cost $300, I would still have more time to waste than money to burn. What do you suggest? A SATA III PCIe card or a new build?
If I had known 40 years ago what I know today about wasted time, I would have never touched that first microcomputer. In fact, I should have known better than to start out tinkering with the cards in a DEC PDP 11/23 (with 64KB RAM and 14-inch removable platters holding a seemingly limitless 5MB, no less).
For at least a year, I've been trying to get Windows 8.1 and my trusty ASUS AMD M4A785-M m/b, with its (formerly) dusty PCIe 2.0 x 1 slot, to recognize a SATA III card—any 2-port, non-RAID, SATA III, PCIe 2.0 x 1 card, such as the HighPoint Rocket 620A, or the IoCrest (SYBA) ASM1061 SY-PEX40039, or you name it—in order to accelerate from 3.0 Gb/s (SATA II) to a gut-flattening 4.0 Gb/s (SATA III on PCIe 2.0 x 1).
Had I known PCIe would be this chancy, I should have bit the bullet and upgraded to a new ASUS AMD m/b with 8 GB of DDR3 (or DDR4), upgradeable to 16 GB, and an M2 SSD card with more than 111 GB. But even if that upgrade only cost $300, I would still have more time to waste than money to burn. What do you suggest? A SATA III PCIe card or a new build?
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