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prithive

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Which is better to set the SATA in IDE or AHCI? I am using Windows XP SP3. I have read some thread AHCI not support for XP. I dont know whether the performance will increase or not in AHCI mode.
 
you will get an advantage with ACHI. I am not sure of speed wise, but there are more features in ACHI. If you have a SSD, you will need to use ACHI to get its full use.

XP can use it, but you will need the SATA driver for it.
 
wolfeking said:
really? I have never noticed as I have it set to IDE always because of compatiblity issues with windows 2000.
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Yeah last time I installed 7 x64 on my desktop it seemed to chug, so I switched back to IDE and reinstalled Windows. But this time I pre-installed the AHCI driver and it seems much better.
 
voyagerfan99 said:
Yeah last time I installed 7 x64 on my desktop it seemed to chug, so I switched back to IDE and reinstalled Windows. But this time I pre-installed the AHCI driver and it seems much better.
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AMD boards should have the ACHI driver preinstalled. I didn't have to install any drivers.
 
I think you mean windows should automatically use the AHCI driver if the board is set to use that. I've been using AHCI so that TRIM and garbage collection works on the SSD.
 
Well I don't know what you two were thinking, but I meant I downloaded the latest mobo manufacturer AHCI drivers instead of using the default Windows ones.
 
When I got my new mobo, CPU and RAM last September, I wanted to use AHCI on my WD SATA drive with XP Home, but was not able to do so because I don't have a floppy drive. There were no native Windows AHCI drivers, and setting the BIOS for AHCI only coughed up errors saying no hard drive could be found.
 
OvenMaster said:
When I got my new mobo, CPU and RAM last September, I wanted to use AHCI on my WD SATA drive with XP Home, but was not able to do so because I don't have a floppy drive. There were no native Windows AHCI drivers, and setting the BIOS for AHCI only coughed up errors saying no hard drive could be found.
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You can slipstream the AHCI driver into the Windows CD using nLite.
 
IDE is older and slower and AHCI is newer and faster.They are both good if you ask me.
Windows XP can work on both.However you will need to slipstream AHCI drivers in order to use AHCI on Windows XP.

Most BIOS editions have an ability to use the IDE (compatibility mode) in the case you have problems with AHCI.

As for transfer speed differences,you are not really going to notice a difference unless if you are moving a lot of data from one location to another.
For simple tasks such as browsing,using programs and playing games,you will not see a difference.

In short they are both good.

If the speed is VERY important to you then use AHCI and SSD.




Cheers!
 
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