Sata 1-2 Raid 0 to 3-4?

can i safely put my drives on 3 and 4 without loosing all the data?
only reason i am doing this is because i can't overclock at all.....i've heard the sata ports limit the overclock..therefore changing them.

i was on 1and 2 swapped over to 3 and 4 no problem for the same reason,
have to make sure they are enabledin the bios obviously. as mine were not originally, everything else i seem to remember was the same.
good luck.
ive tried a few over clocks just with core centre and been up to 2300 +/- 30
but havnt played with voltages or ram settings yet and it was ok
benchmarked with 3d mark and it made a small difference 20000 to 22000 i guess a pretty good difference really but i think it will go a bit better than that if i play about a bit, just learning bout it by fiddling.

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