Check your motherboard's specifications to confirm compatibility with SATA 3 and PCIe 3.
Check your motherboard's specifications to confirm compatibility with SATA 3 and PCIe 3.
Board name listed as GA-H61M-S2P-R3 (version 3.0). Order details mention an SSD with 560MBps, but advice suggests it won't work well without SATA 3 support. The board claims PCIe 3 compatibility, while the motherboard lists PCIe 2.
You can find your motherboard details on the web. https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-...v-30/sp#sp You’ll notice your board lacks built-in SATA 3, though the main PCIe port can handle PCIe 3 based on the CPU—interesting since I don’t recall older boards supporting it before IVB.
Pre-IVB refers to a specific type of PCIe version. You might have spent money on something that didn’t meet your needs, especially if you were frustrated with slow performance. The link you received seems to mention both PCIe 3 and 2, which could be confusing.
My I3 3220 isn’t compatible with version 3.0, which means the GTX 960 I bought won’t work anymore.
SSD offers significant benefits compared to HDDs, especially when using SATA 1 or SATA 2. For everyday tasks, random access is more important than sequential performance. You won’t need PCIe 3.0 for a GTX 960; even quicker cards work well with PCIe 2.0.