Improve SSD performance with old motherboard?

[aaron501]

I am building a pc from old parts I have but since I'm upgrading my main PC's SSD I will put my current Sandisk ultra 120GB SSD in the old PC.
The motherboard is a Gygabyte EP35-DS3. It has only SATA II ports so the SSD would run at maximun 250MB/s speed if connected to the motherboard. If I install a SATA 6Gb/s controller card I think it will be capped by the PCI-e speed (wich is version 1.0 I think, somewhere it says it's 2.0 but I don't think so) to 250MB/s because the SATA card is PCIe x1.

Is there any way to make this SSD to perform at his full capacity with this motherboard?

The only way I can think is with a PCIe x2 or x4 SATA controller card but I don't know if such a thing even exist or if it will be too expensive.
Upgrading the motherboard is not an option because it has all the other components and it runs very well. Thats the reason I'll put the SSD, to get even better performance of an already good system.

Any other ideas guys?

Thanks in advance!

 

[aaron501]

I read the article that you mention. It's a 3 year old article. My SSD performs higher than tose tested at around 450 MB/s so it'll get get very limited (half his usual performance) by a SATA 2. However since there are not a simple option for improving this I'll just use it that way as you recommend.
Thanks