Older Sata III (6gb/s) ATX Board For i5 750 or i7 920?

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Hi,

I am looking to get a 2nd user board that has Sata III (6gb/s) native connectivity to use with either an i5 750 or an i7 920 CPU. Can anyone please recommend a suitable value for money ATX board that is recognised as a "classic" in its category?

[ik9000]

that'll need two different boards! i7 920 is socket 1366 nehalem (X58 mobo) whereas i5-750 is 1156 lynnfield (H55, H57, P55 mobo)

Lynnfield boards do have sata III, not all but some, maybe most. USB3 was the rarity. I have a nice ASUS H55 board, which for all its limitations was one of the first to offer both Sata III, eSata3 and USB3. Still using it now. Not for sale. However if you were getting rid of that i5....

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that'll need two different boards! i7 920 is socket 1366 nehalem (X58 mobo) whereas i5-750 is 1156 lynnfield (H55, H57, P55 mobo)

Lynnfield boards do have sata III, not all but some, maybe most. USB3 was the rarity. I have a nice ASUS H55 board, which for all its limitations was one of the first to offer both Sata III, eSata3 and USB3. Still using it now. Not for sale. However if you were getting rid of that i5....

I know this is the motherboard section but which CPU between an i5 750 and an i7 920 would be best for video editing using something like Sony Vegas or Premiere Pro? That is what will define the CPU and subsequently the board that I will base a system around.

[ik9000]

i imagine the i7-920, but it's really rather old now. The SB/IB/Haswell (1155/1150) i5 chips should kick it round the park, but not the old i5-750 (1156).

Take a look at the comparisons in the anandtech bench... http://anandtech.com/bench/CPU/2

also don't forget to look at the AMD FX chips - 6-8 cores is hard to ignore if you need multithreaded performance on a budget.

[pastymuncher]

Don't buy into the hype surrounding Sata 3 on 1155 boards. They will use the awful Marvell 912x controller. I had a Asus P7P55D-E Pro that supposedly had sata 3 and usb 3. USN 3 was fine but sata 3 using the Marvell 9128 controller was slower than sata 2 in the Intel controller, especially on writes. Add in pci-e cards will also mostly use the same controller so i wouldn't advise going down that route either. If you really want sata 3 then i would suggest a new up to date cpu and mobo.

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If you really want sata 3 then i would suggest a new up to date cpu and mobo...

pasty,

Thx, that might be my only option, I need something that can read and write to a 1tb database on a conventional HDD as fast as possible. I think it might need to be a z68 or possibly an AMD equivalent.

[kompukare]

pasty,

Thx, that might be my only option, I need something that can read and write to a 1tb database on a conventional HDD as fast as possible. I think it might need to be a z68 or possibly an AMD equivalent.

I think you're probably getting confused with burst-mode vs sustained mode. Like is done with DB servers, you'd really want a database distributed over several HDDs ('spindels') for enhanced random access writes. Random access and IOPS is of course what an SSD excels at, but unless you can budget a 1TB SSD or a bunch of 15,000RPM SAS drives to split the DB over you're not going to speed it up much. SATA II vs SATA III is unlikely to make any big difference.

Or if the DB access is always a certain subset having a lot of RAM for the DB engine to play with might help.