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Serial ATA and AGP 8X motherboards

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the faster-is-better-when-you-don't-crash dept.

bjschrock writes "Tech-Junkie reports that Asus is rolling out new motherboards with the new Serial ATA interface, along with AGP 8X support. Serial ATA will soon become pretty popular with the release of new hardware like the Seagate Baracudda ATA V hard drive, that sports a 8MB cache. The main advantage of Serial ATA, besides a slight speed increase, is the much smaller cable and the ability to hot-swap."

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  1. smaller wires by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    the much smaller cable

    If there were no cables(i.e. wireless), computers would be so much easier to work on.

  2. What a relief by BFD_Jon · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Smaller cables? HALLELUJAH! I hate having to dig through my computer like it was some sort of ancient miniature pyramid to find which cable goes where. It's so damn time consuming... hopefully, this will be the start of much smaller and more organized cables.

    Oh, and by the way, first post. Whoo.