Planning to buy myself an AMD FX-8350 for my first build and was wondering about the AMD 990FX chipset in relation to Intel's Z87/Z77. My question is this; is the Intel chipset's sata 6 faster than the AMD? In real terms, would a Samsung 840 pro be faster on the Z87 than the 990FX? If the difference isn't that big, then i'm one happy AMD customer :D
I believe toms hardware did a suite of tests a while back and found that intel's SATA controllers were top notch, but AMD's came a close second. The other brands like Maxtor and such were often beat by SATA II controllers, which was sad. I didn't read the entire article since i was at work at the time but The difference between the AMD and Intel SATA controllers was minimal, but most third party controllers just didn't cut it.
Well i own a FX8350 and a Samsung 840 pro 128GB SSD.
here are the speeds i get from it, without any windows tweaks. The speeds from the fabrick are read 530MB/s and write 390MB/s, so i don't get the full speed. but it still performs very well, notice i have a 970 chipset board but this should not matter much.