SSD with 780G motherboard

[tvarad]

I have a 780G mini-itx motherboard (J&W minix) that is lying around gathering dust. I was planning to use it as a general purpose browsing machine running Windows 7 after adding a Phenom II X3 lying around too. Would it be OK to use a SSD with it, specifically a SanDisk Ultra Plus 256GB, given that the chipset is so old? Thanks in advance.

 

[Lagittaja]

No problem at all.
I have a Samsung 830 64gb in my HTPC which has a Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H (rev1.1) which has 780G northbridge and SB700 southbridge.
Of course the read/write in CrystalDiskMark etcetera synthetic benchmarks are lower with SATAII but it's still fast, more than enough speed for having it as a boot drive.
Compared to a newer southbridge (w/ SATAIII) you'd have faster read/writes but that's about it.
tl;dr, just go for it

BUT, I would be vary about that Phenom II X3.
Is this your motherboard? http://www.jwele.com/motherboard_detail.php?419
I looked at the VRM area and doesn't look that strong so if your Phenom is a 700e or 705e then okay but if it's one of those other, with 95w TDP I would STRONGLY recommend adding some more cooling to the board, like the Enzotech MOS-C1 would probably fit fine here.
Even if your Phenom is one of those 65w TDP models then I wouldn't even try overclocking. If that motherboard has voltage adjustment ability in BIOS then I would strongly suggest lowering the vcore as well. Don't know for sure but it looks like 4+1 VRM at best.

 

[tvarad]

Thanks for the reply. I'm not going to overclock it, so that's not an issue. The CPU is a 65W Phenom II X3 705e that I used on the same MB earlier without any problems, so it should be OK. I'm not looking for a massive performance bump from the SSD; I just want it to play nice with the MB. I am building a compact system and that particular Sandisk SSD is actually the size of an msata part when it is removed from it's 2.5" case, so it will save me some space when I install it.