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Onboard vs PCI IDE controller
Name: Ben Date: April 22, 2003 at 06:49:57 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: Celeron 700
Comment:
Hello, I have a Dell Celeron 700 Mhz with an onboard 82801AA bus master ide controller. As best as I can tell, it runs at ATA66.
I have a 2.5 year old Promise Tech Ultra66 controller laying around.
Would I get any jump in speed by putting the Promise Tech card in my Celeron box and using it instead of the onboard controller?
Name: Badboy Date: April 22, 2003 at 06:52:16 Pacific
Reply:
Probably not.
If you've got an ATA 100 or ATA 133 HDD, you might really notice if you got a ATA 100 or ATA 133 PCI adapter.
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Response Number 2
Name: Maurice Reed Date: April 22, 2003 at 08:00:32 Pacific
Reply:
The Dell PCs always use Intel Chipsets & CPUs. To maximise performance you can download the Intel INF installer, the Intel Application Accelerator and Intel graphics drivers from the support site at www.intel.com
The Promise Tech card will not boost performance, the integrated IDE controller will run the drive at UDMA-4 ATA/66 assuming an 80wire rather than 40wire IDE cable is in use.
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