"Brian Allen" wrote in message
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BTW, also installed the Adaptec SATA board and it didn't help (I
mentioned bad performance issues before with the onboard SATA
controller). The drive is a Seagate Barracuda 7200 and it's
performance is dismal even when I upgraded HD Tach to 3.0 (since I'm
using XP Pro). I don't grade this drive/interface any better than I
would an ATA66 setup.

I am curious about this. Has anybody else had this experience with
SATA drives?

My experience with SATA is that it works pretty much the same as legacy ATA
for a comparable drive. I've built 3 machines this way.

But I'm not using Roger's Gigabyte 8NNXP A64 motherboard (Nvidia chipset),
I'm using the ECS A64 755 motherboard (SIS chipset). Very dissimilar boards.

The GB 8NNXP uses the Silicon Image outboard PCI to SATA bridge, while the
ECS 755 uses an integrated SATA controller that provides a more direct route
to the CPU and RAM.

Other than no difference in performance with SATA, I like the concept and
size of the new cables, but the implementation seems to not be appreciably
more durable.