Hey guys! I'm currently running a Samsung Evo 750 - 250GB on a SATA 2. It's capable of 540MB/s Seq. Read as per the website. Of course SATA 2 will limit it to 300 MB/s. I don't do any read intensive work. I was mainly looking at WOW load times, so checked with HWiNFO. From starting WOW and login, to the first time screen load, the peak read rate was only 98 MB/s.
Would I be correct in concluding that everything else being same, changing the motherboard to get a SATA 3 port isn't going to make much of a difference in the screen load times unless the available bandwidth gets saturated first? Of course I'll have to change the RAM to DDR3, because afaik there are no motherboards with SATA 3 and DDR2.
The setup for info (yeah it was built in 2009 ):
AMD Phenom II X4 955 BE
Asus M4A79 Deluxe
Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800 (4GB Dual Channel Kit) x 2
Sapphire Pulse RX560 4GB
Samsung Evo 750 - 250GB
Western Digital Caviar Blue 640GB
Would I be correct in concluding that everything else being same, changing the motherboard to get a SATA 3 port isn't going to make much of a difference in the screen load times unless the available bandwidth gets saturated first? Of course I'll have to change the RAM to DDR3, because afaik there are no motherboards with SATA 3 and DDR2.
The setup for info (yeah it was built in 2009 ):
AMD Phenom II X4 955 BE
Asus M4A79 Deluxe
Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800 (4GB Dual Channel Kit) x 2
Sapphire Pulse RX560 4GB
Samsung Evo 750 - 250GB
Western Digital Caviar Blue 640GB