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    Got my N53SV

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by FFCBairn, Feb 7, 2011.

  1. FFCBairn

    FFCBairn Notebook Enthusiast

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    This is a really nice machine. Looking in bios I see 6 sata ports. 0 is the hard drive, 2 is the dvd

    My question is, this means that neither of those devices should be subject to the sandy bridge flaw right?

    It doesn't say which ports are which but I assume 0 and 1 must be sata III and 2-5 would really be 0-3 Sata II in which case ports 2 and 3 should be the unaffected ones? Hoping someone can clarify.
     
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    Maybe I didn't ask my question the right way. I understand that port 2 will degrade but my question was more of "is port 2 label the real port 2?"

    I was under the impression that ports 0 and 1 were ports 0 and 1 of the SATA III but that ports 2-5 were actually 0-3 of SATA II. Maybe I misunderstand how they number the ports but I thought that there was a port 0 for both SATA II and SATA III in such a configuration.
     
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    You can see them listed in the BIOS setup (hit F2 at POST). Port 0 and 1 are safe, the others are potentially affected by the design flaw.
     
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    ok well that is not the answer I hoped for lol. Thanks for answering
     
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    Which SV did you get?
     
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    Got the Tiger Direct cheapo model, XE-1, so I have the regular screen, 500GB hard drive, and 1 year warranty I think were the only differences but for $959 it was a sweet deal to me. I replaced hdd with ssd anyway so really it came down to the screen and warranty.

    [​IMG]

    Final WEI with Samsung 128GB 470 Series and upgraded to 12GB DDR3
     
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