The tendencies of the past several years prove that contemporary customers are rather demanding as to the overall characteristics of their PCs, so to their singular hardware components. Those demands primarily touch upon performance, efficiency and power-saving properties of products, however, design and ergonomics are given much attention as well. PSU devices are not an exclusion, and customers tend to choose not only high-end products with outstanding parameters, but also products with compact dimensions and attractive design. Thus, PSU manufacturers try to comply with the modern tendencies and release devices for people with various demands. PSU Hiper K900 is the product destined for customers with heightened requirements to the performance and moderate desires as to its design.
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Hiper K900 design is characterized by simplicity and observance of traditional forms. The casing is made of dull black plastic which combines with the silver-color fan …
Intel(r) 200 Series Chipset Family Sata Ahci Controller Driver Windows 10
What bothers me is that the 8-Series and newer motherboards have updated drivers for Windows 10, including SATA/AHCI. My B75 Asus board only has updated Chipset and LAN drivers so far. In fact, I've checked all the major players (Asus, ASRock, GigaByte, MSI) and all of them only have a few sporadic updated Windows 10 drivers for their 7-Series chipset boards - but non of them have updated SATA drivers.
Yes, the Win-8.1 driver seems to be working fine in Windows 10. But if no driver update is needed, then why did Asus (Intel I guess) release a new driver for the 8-Series chipset but not the B75? Actually all the 8-Series and newer chipset boards have updated SATA/AHCI drivers, but not the 7-Series boards.
Here's an example of what I'm talking about:
Asus P8B75-M/CSM
Win10
- none
Win7,8,8.1
- Intel AHCI/RAID Driver V12.8.0.1016
     iaStorA.sys (630 KB)
Asus B85-Plus
Win10
- Intel AHCI/RAID Driver V14.5.0.1081
     iaStorA.sys (1422 KB)
Win7,8,8.1
- Intel AHCI/RAID Driver V12.8.0.1016
     iaStorA.sys (630 KB)
If you notice, the B75 and B85 motherboards have the same SATA driver for Win7,8, and 8.1. But only the B85 board has the newer SATA driver for Windows 10. Is the newer driver improving performance, compatibility, or both?
Appreciate any feedback on driver status for 7-Series motherboards or what, if anything, the newer Windows 10 SATA driver brings to the table.