Asus board with NCQ

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I believe so, although I don't own such a board.

On the AMD side, their mainboards that use the nVidia nForce 4 chipsets
support NCQ, given a hard drive that includes it. (The nForce 4 also
supports 3 Gb/s SATA II transfer rates.)

On the Intel side, I think that boards with the 955X chipset support NCQ, to
go with the SATA II specs.

There may be others as well.

It's too bad that their search engine returns nothing for NCQ, although it's
explicitly mentioned in the FAQ for the A8N-SLI.

HTH.

Bob Knowlden

Address is scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn.
 
Hi
Does Asus have a motherboard that the drive controller supports NCQ?
Thanks
Ken'

The Intel ICH6R and ICH7R datasheets make reference to AHCI (advanced
host controller interface) and "hardware assisted native command
queueing". The acronym NCQ is not used in the datasheets as such.

On the Silicon Image web site:

SIL3124 4 port/PCI_X , 3Gb/sec, hot plug, NCQ "with non-zero offsets?"
SIL3132 2 ports/PCI Express , 3Gb/sec, hot plug, NCQ (P5WD2 Premium)

Promise.com.tw ? Doesn't generally document their OEM chips.

This page seems to suggest you might find a 1.5Gb/sec
device with NCQ as a capability, but so far, it looks like
3Gb/sec devices would be better candidates. AHCI is not
mentioned here, implying the Intel spec really belongs to
Intel only ?

http://www.sata-io.org/namingguidelines.asp

An article on Anandtech, claims that Nvidia motherboard chipset
SATA may support NCQ. So perhaps an Athlon64 board with a 3Gb/sec
SATA interface on an Nforce4 may also be a candidate. I tried to
find the NCQ buzzword in the tech spec section of the Nvidia site,
but don't see it mentioned. (And, you'd have the pleasure of
dealing with Nvidia drivers, to enjoy that feature.)

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2394&p=12

Paul
 
Ken' said:
Hi
Does Asus have a motherboard that the drive controller supports NCQ?
Thanks
Ken'


The Intel ICH6/6R and the ICH7R supports NCQ as does the Nforce4 chipset.
For most common desktop tasks, NCQ will provide little or no performance
increase.

Here are three boards:
P5LD2
P5WD2
A8N-SLI Premium

Most new chipsets will support NCQ, though this should be researched on a
case by case basis.
 
Pascal
Thanks for the link, it is a very interesting read.
I searched their site looking for articles on NCQ but didn't find that
article.
Thanks Again
Ken'
 
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