What a drag

[whs]

I am in the market for a new dektop. I was looking at this HP model. The one thing that was not clear is whether there are Sata III ports on the mobo. So I called HP to find out. After 2 hours later and talking to 5 guys I stiii do not know. They did not even understand my question - I think.

Does anybody know whether there are Sata III ports? I need at least one port for my new Crucial M4 SSD.

 

[panais]

I searched in 10 websites for specs even in my area,but i can see only sata 2.

Nothing about sata 3. :huh:

Ports 2UB 2.0 Front I/O, 2USB 3.0 HD, HM Top I/O

Edit: Ok usb 3 in specs.

Though if you notice in the upgades for Secondary Hard Drive is:

500GB 7200 rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive
1TB 7200 rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive

Nothing more.

I will check more websites in my area.

 

[whs]

Thanks for going thru the trouble. I came out empty handed too on my research.

 

[The Howling Wolves]

WHS,
Check out the reviews (44 of them) and see if you can't pose the question there or e-mail them.
Tried to find all the specs on your desktop I came up lame.
THW

 

[Hopalong X]

This is what I found at HP.> Product search results

There are two 1000 series and two 1100 series listed.
None have Sata 6.0Gbs.
All have Sata 3.0Gbs and Sata-1 as HP has marked them.
How many each is not marked.
The 1100 has at least 2 Sata 3.0Gbs as you can buy it with two HDD's installed.

Mike

1050-> http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...dlc=en&lang=en&lc=en&product=5115721&x=8&y=10

1150-> http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...dlc=en&lang=en&lc=en&product=5155345&x=8&y=10

 

[whs]

Thanks Dennis and Mike. I sent them an email. But I am afraid you are right. I probably will have to look elsewhere. I will try Gateway.

 

[panais]

Wolfgang i check also all the 4 series in my area including HPE.

No sata 3.

 

[Hopalong X]

whs

There is no one in your area that would assemble your parts?

If I ordered everything there are a couple of privately owned shops locally that would assemble for me.
I wouldn't want to spend the extra to do so but if necessary I would. I would rather use parts I want over a HP or Dell.
Just a thought.

Asus also sells assembled PC's on this side of the pond. Not a recommendation I have never dealt with Asus assembled PC's.
Only their parts which I like.
I don't know if they are sold in the EU or not.

 

[The Howling Wolves]

WHS,
Be more than happy to put it all together for you. Just make sure you get me a couple of rolls of
Duct Tape and some crazy glue.

I promise not to promise or guarantee it will work.
There is no fee for this professional style of worksmanship!
THW

 

[Hopalong X]

Shipping costs from the States would be outlandish.
It was going to cost me $50 to ship a 3lb. normal size item by Post from Germany to U.S. three years ago.
$150 UPS.
The items were only $40.
Needless to say I did not buy the items.

Plus the chance of damage during shipping. Then what do you do?

 

[boohbah]

what a drag!

 

[seavixen32]

WHS,
Be more than happy to put it all together for you. Just make sure you get me a couple of rolls of
Duct Tape and some crazy glue.

I promise not to promise or guarantee it will work.
There is no fee for this professional style of worksmanship!
THW

Duct tape AND crazy glue - bit of overkill there, Dennis, if you don't mind me saying so. :devil:

If you're not careful, you'll be headhunted by UPS to give advice on their packaging methods.

 

[The Howling Wolves]

WHS,
Be more than happy to put it all together for you. Just make sure you get me a couple of rolls of
Duct Tape and some crazy glue.

I promise not to promise or guarantee it will work.
There is no fee for this professional style of worksmanship!
THW

Duct tape AND crazy glue - bit of overkill there, Dennis, if you don't mind me saying so. :devil:

If you're not careful, you'll be headhunted by UPS to give advice on their packaging methods.

Called Mike( HopalongX) for help as I am stuck...Glue dries to fast and now I am part of WHS new computer build. Now UPS won't take me in the delivery as I don't fit their shipping requirements.

 

[Kari]

Wolfgang, this is a good rig. One of my old workmates has the one with FX-8150 and 1TB drive. Works and serves as family network server. Please notice, it's a geek family, they have at least 7 or 8 PC's on network. It's running 2008R2, never had problems, uptime ATM over 4 months (not counting necessary update reboots).

My opinion: go for it, it's worth every cent!

Kari

 

[whs]

You guys are too funny. But I appreciate the offers for assembling a box. I actually have friends at my computer club that can see better than me and could put something together for me. I considered that when I saw a few nice packages on Newegg and TigerDirect. But then I thought it was too much trouble.

I did, however, already order a Crucial M4 SSD from Newegg for the upcoming new box. They had an instant rebate and a promo code so it costs only $104 - i could not resist.

I now found an option at Dell. I am not really a big Dell friend because I have a Dell box in Germany and I was not pleased to find that they had bolted the 2 HDDs to the chassis - no bays. But this XPS8300 looks pretty good and is only $800 with my 2 upgrades (2 USB3 ports and a Radeon graphics card). And the guy at Dell was a bit swifter. He found out that the mobo has a Sata III port (I hope he is right). I asked him to confirm that in an email.

PS: thanks Kari for the advice. But without a Sata III port I am not sure.

 

[whs]

The guy from Dell came back with a chart that shows the mobo connectors. He highlighted a "Sata 3" port. But I am not sure whether that is really a Sata 3 or just the third port on the board because there is also a Sata 0, 1, 2. What do you guys think.

 

[Hopalong X]

Sata 0, 1, 2, 3 just port numbering on that chart.
It could be anything.

I have 0-6. One of them is the on board e-Sata.

So that is useless for Gbs purposes.
Let me see if I can dig some info up for you. I'm good on the HP sight. Never took on Dell yet.

 

[Hopalong X]

Documentation

I found it!!!!!!!!!! Link above.

Scroll down to System Board Components.

11 and 13 on mobo layout are 6Gbs.

15 and 17 on mobo layout are 3Gbs.

 

[whs]

Mike, you are the best. I owe you. Thank you very much.

 

[Hopalong X]

You are quite welcome.

I love digging out info on HP. Dell is even easier. Well for me anyway.

Anytime my friend.
Mike

i7-2600 and 8GB of Ram it should do everything you want.
Everything I would at least.