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[Nothing Here]

Well, my nephew just came over and gave this SSD to me and he says I will need a converter/adapter to attach it to my Asus M5A97 mobo, but doesn't know exactly what I need. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanx

[Pikey]

Just plug it in same as any drive ... it uses the same SATA power and interface cable as normal.

He might be referring to a HDD 3.5 to 2.5 inch tray ... like this in this review.

http://blog.testfrea...ta-iii-2-5-ssd/

[Tyler R.]

same SSD here (128GB model). plugged in as usual. no problems

[Deranged]

Lakota Rising, on 12 October 2012 - 20:50, said:

Well, my nephew just came over and gave this SSD to me and he says I will need a converter/adapter to attach it to my Asus M5A97 mobo, but doesn't know exactly what I need. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanx

As said above, it connects directly to the mobo with no adapter. A 2.5->3.5 kit can come in handy to install it but some of them will downgrade your SATA speeds to 3gb as I understand it.

You might want these chipset drivers, while we're at it. (The RAID ones aren't necessary.) (Assuming you use Windows 7 - http://support.amd.c..._windows.aspx#2 otherwise click one of the tabs at the top)

[Nothing Here]

Deranged, on 12 October 2012 - 21:15, said:

As said above, it connects directly to the mobo with no adapter. A 2.5->3.5 kit can come in handy to install it but some of them will downgrade your SATA speeds to 3gb as I understand it.

You might want these chipset drivers, while we're at it. (The RAID ones aren't necessary.) (Assuming you use Windows 7 - http://support.amd.c..._windows.aspx#2 otherwise click one of the tabs at the top)

My mobo only is only SATA. So it's still compatible?

[Nothing Here]

Why would I need 700 chipset drivers when my mobo is a 970 chipset?

[Mindovermaster]

Don't listen to your nephew, OK?

[Nothing Here]

I can only say one thing. Wow! I installed it. Loaded Win7 x64 on it and man oh man! I like SSDs over platters now. But I do have a question. The SSD is just laying on top of the platter drive. Will it be ok there or is there a rack adapter I can get to hold it?

[+djdanster]

You can buy 2.5 to 3.5 trays. The OCZ one shouldn't be more that $10.

[Nothing Here]

djdanster, on 13 October 2012 - 01:36, said:

You can buy 2.5 to 3.5 trays. The OCZ one shouldn't be more that $10.

Deranged said the kit would drop the SATA speeds down to 3gb. Isn't there something else I could do?

[+djdanster]

Lakota Rising, on 13 October 2012 - 01:43, said:

Deranged said the kit would drop the SATA speeds down to 3gb. Isn't there something else I could do?

I was answering to the "The SSD is just laying on top of the platter drive. Will it be ok there or is there a rack adapter I can get to hold it?" My answer is that you can buy one of the adapters in the link below (or similar, there are tonnes on the market).

http://www.ocztechno...op-adapter.html

As long as the SSD is plugged into the SATA III port on the motherboard, you will be fine! I've got the same motherboard as you (M5A97) and I have had no issues with both my OCZ agility 3's.

[Deranged]

Lakota Rising, on 12 October 2012 - 23:17, said:

Why would I need 700 chipset drivers when my mobo is a 970 chipset?

Because they're for 700 and above.

[+Crisp]

You need the converter to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of power to get it working!!!

[Nothing Here]

Crisps, on 13 October 2012 - 02:14, said:

You need the converter to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of power to get it working!!!

Yea, but my DeLorean has the Mr. Fusion upgrade.

Deranged, on 13 October 2012 - 02:09, said:

Because they're for 700 and above.

Yea. I figured that out. LOL!

[Pam14160]

Velcro will do the job just fine. That is what I use instead of paying the cost and shipping for a converter.