Need help upgrading to SSD on dad's PC

[urexyvca]

So my dad's PC is running kinda slow. I was thinking of suggesting an SSD upgrade but there's a problem. The motherboard is based on LGA775 socket (g41 chipset). And if you have any experience with LGA 775, you probably can guess what's the problem.

The motherboard has SATA 3 gbps ports which means that if I were to get a modern SATA 6 gpbs SSD, it would run at half of the speed as it can. Sure it can still have fast access times but.... still....

 

So... I was thinking... Maybe I can do something about the fact that the board also has a PCI and PCIe slots.

So, I'm curious, will I be able to run the SSD at it's full speed if I were to get PCIe to SATA adapter or a PCIe SSD?

I'm asking because these motherboards are just too old, and PCIe could be slow. I don't know.  Any ideas?

Also would you recommend upgrading to an SSD on these old boards?

[mrgooglegeek]

You could easily get a sata 3 pci-e card for about $15. I had a similar issue with my old system. this will help, but you may not get the full 500mbps if thats what your ssd supports

[DHelios]

I would definitely recommend upgrading the system to an SSD. I would also recommend just sticking it on a SATA/3G port and calling it a day. The performance increase over a mechanical hard drive will still be night and day. If your dad does not use the system for anything that relies on super fast transfer speeds, it will be more than fine. Also, it means you can use a cheap SSD, as speed won't be as much of an issue.

 

(All recommendations based on personal experience, my daily driver and notebook worked off an SSD over SATA/3G for years. The difference to mechanical hard drives was insane, the performance increase when I upgraded to a mainboard with SATA/6G minimal.)

[zMeul]

unless you're transferring data from one SSD to another or have some crazy internet bandwidth, those 6gbps the SATA3 controllers are capable of, will never be used

the thing that will get used is the really fast access times

 

yes, you can get a SATA3 host controller card, but is it worth the investment? I'd say no

http://www.amazon.co.uk/SEDNA-Express-Adapter-Profile-Bracket/dp/B00L0FDRT0

[Sharif]

It's fine and will still make a huge difference 

[paddy-stone]

3Gbps is still approx 375MB/s, so approx 3 times faster than a mech hard drive. But anyway, will your dad actually be transferring stuff to and from the drive that much.. from another drive I mean? because if so it'd be limited by the device he's transferring to/from anyway. The main good thing about an SSD is really it's use as the OS, so the read times are much much faster than a regular mech drive and the boot up time should decrease a lot. I would just get an SSD, but maybe just a cheaper one anyway and just use it as the OS drive, something like http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Plus-240GB-2-5-Inch-SDSSDA-240G-G25/dp/B00S9Q9VS4/ref=sr_1_5?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1460984023&sr=1-5&keywords=ssd

 

[urexyvca]

Thanks guys. My dad doesn't really do that heavy stuff, he just wants programs to load faster, like Opera, Word and etc. He complains the PC being too slow these days...

 

But my dad isn't the only one, my friend is also in a similar situation, he wants an SSD he can put games on (CS:GO for example), so he can get faster loading times.

 

I guess we'll just stick with the default connections on the board, for now, I mean, in future if he considers upgrading to a newer board and CPU, we'll use that SSD with it.

 

As far as those PCIe adapters go, I think cheaper ones will still perform badly, since that's how it works when buying cheap stuff.... I think...