Z77 vs ASMEDIA Sata III ports

Does anyone have any information on what the differences between the z77 and asmedia sata controllers are?
I have a plextor (Marvell) based ssd and am thinking it could be better on the asmedia port but can find no info.

Finally found the answer, you can only have 6 sata port on an intell z77 controller. They give you an extra two and they are inferior. (Or so says some guy on another forum)
I did find some benchmarking that said the am slots were worse. Ive got this up and running for now so after a night of folding to test, i am going to turn off oc genie and do some real oc'ing.

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  • MOVED: Problem with Marvell SATA III ports

    This topic has been moved to Intel Core-iX boards.
    https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=143558.0

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  • Xpower not recognizing Crucial SATA III 256GB SSD

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  • Win 7 x64, i5 760, Crucial 64GB C300 SSD & MSI P55A-G55..SATA III not working?

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    Period!
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  • P55A-GD65 SATA III

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    Thanks Mark,
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  • Cannot use ASMedia SATA ports

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  • Cannot Boot Z77A-GD65 w/ASMedia SATA Ports Enabled

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