Use Nforce4 drivers or Windows XP drivers for SATA HD's?

[jarablue]

I wanted to know what drivers I should use to get best performance. Use the built in xp sata drivers or the drivers that come with the nforce4 chipset package which is 6.86 I believe. What do you guys think?

 

[Heidfirst]

if your drives are SATA300s then the nVidia storage drivers will give you better burst performance in tests. In real world apps I doubt that you could tell the difference.
the nVidia drivers sometimes cause problems with optical drives & stability for some people.

 

[Randybob]

I have a hard time trusting NVIDIA's mobo drivers after my bad experience with Nforce4 IDE drivers. However, all you can do is test it. If it doesn't work with one, it ought to work with the other unless you have defective hardware.

 

[Mucker]

I've always used the nForce drivers on my DFI Ultra-D and never had a single problem with them....

 

[jarablue]

Well the thing is it is a Nforce4AMDX2 system. When I loaded the NV drivers I noticed I could do HD speed tests in Device Manager and also it enable command queing on the system drive. When I used MS Sata drivers I saw none of that but it was at DMA access mode 6. The peformance in probably nothing between the 2 though. You think?

 

[jarablue]

Well this is interesting. With NV's chipset drivers for sata it enables native command queueing on the hd. With MS's sata drivers it doesn't . Anyone else notice this? NCQ would be def beneficial. So I guess NV drivers it is? What do you guys think about that?

 

[Intelman07]

NCQ is worth it. The new 6.86 drivers are perfectly fine. Use them, they offer more benefits than the standard microsoft ones.