Not sure if this should be in the motherboard forum. My apologies if it should. I have a Precision 390 which runs 64bit and has 2 sata drives & I want to upgrade the drives to a 120gb or 128gb SSD drive and a larger HHD drive. I'd like to know if there is any data that speaks on what happens if your motherboard is not SATA-3 capable? I read that SSD drives are SATA-3 and if your system is not compatible with SATA-3 performance may be affected.
I ran a program that examines your system performance and pulled up the mfr specs but saw nothing that speaks of anything specific about the SATA level. It only makes mention of SATA port locations.
Not that it matters but I'm upgrading my system to improve performance in my photography & digital editing work. I run multiple programs (Photoshop, Lightroom, Painter12, and plugins) at the same time and they are all memory and speed hogs.
My goal is to (if possible) add more ram, possibly upgrade the CPU and drives in an effort to turn my otherwise older and simplier system into a modern beast and save a few hundred $$$ in the process.
I ran a program that examines your system performance and pulled up the mfr specs but saw nothing that speaks of anything specific about the SATA level. It only makes mention of SATA port locations.
Not that it matters but I'm upgrading my system to improve performance in my photography & digital editing work. I run multiple programs (Photoshop, Lightroom, Painter12, and plugins) at the same time and they are all memory and speed hogs.
My goal is to (if possible) add more ram, possibly upgrade the CPU and drives in an effort to turn my otherwise older and simplier system into a modern beast and save a few hundred $$$ in the process.
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