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Are there any motherboards that support 6GB/s SSD with a quad-core Intel processor (Q9550 in my case)?

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Many motherboards now support 6GB/s Sata 3 drives, however there is not any device (SSDs included) which are actually capable of anywhere near 6GBs, this is simply a theoretical maximum transfer speed.

Just make sure the motherboard supports SATA 3 and Quad Core, and it should meet your needs. Pretty much any (Intel based) motherboard released recently supports this configuration.

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Thanks Wil, I had not realised that. I thought you needed special support from the mobo to get the best out of drives like Crucial RealSSD (256). I'll look into that some more after reading this. – Sean Kearon Sep 11 '10 at 20:31
The new OCZ Vertex 3 pushes the limits of SATA 3. I would look for a SATA 6 motherboard from now on. – rFactor Feb 26 '11 at 11:58
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