Re: reading specs for Asus P5LD2 motherboard?
- From: John Smith <crassono_spam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:03:46 -0400
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 09:41:35 -0700 (PDT), Flasherly <gjerrell@xxxxxx>
wrote:
On Mar 31, 10:09 am, John Smith <crassono_s...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Good grief, those reviews are all over the place! Actually, I have no
I'm a baby at home building pcs. I've never done one but I'm getting
the itch. As a start I cobbled one together in the ComputerDirect
Configurator. I used the Asus P5LD2 motherboard. I realize the new mbs
use mostly SATA drives, but I want to use some of my collection of
PATA drives from my old pc. In particular I want the OPTION of
slapping a cloned c: drive in from my old XP system and booting from
it, rather than installing XP from scratch.
Asus specs:http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=11&l3=185&l4=0&model=515&mo...
Storage/RAID
Intel ICH7R Southbridge:
- 1 x UltraDMA 100/66/33
- 4 x Serial ATA (3Gb/s)
- RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10 and Intel Matrix Storage technology.
ITE 8211F controller:
- 2 x UltraDMA 133 support four hard drives
The way I interpret the above is that I have 1 PATA connector on the
board which I must connect my CD and my CD R/W to. Unless I cable my
cloned drive in place of one CD drive, OR stick the cloned PATA drive
on a RAID connnector and try to boot from that, that's the only choice
I have for hooking up my PATA drive to boot from.
First, is it true that I need to hook CD and CD R/W drives to my one
PATA connector? Does that '1 x UltraDMA' mean I get an IDE cable
capable of driving two IDE devices, master and slave?
Can someone make this a little clearer for me?
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Besides you, there are others who apparently could stand having a
clearer conception of IDE assignments.
I've a similar board - an ASUS for an A64, though - that has three IDE
connectors: two normal, one is 2-drive RAID. Not being a big fan of
RAID of any type, the 3rd wouldn't pick up optical devices, anyway.
Newegg isn't carrying the MB. If IDE manageability is a necessity -
another way of going after it is through a PCI add on controller, such
as SYBA.
Also, another thing that stands out is that with this the type of
board - it's something where you *do* want REV 2.
Have a look (a quick over gives me the feeling not to rule out the
possibility that a better board is to be had in this instance)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16813131048&SortField=0&SummaryType=0&Pagesize=100&SelectedRating=-1&PurchaseMark=&VideoOnlyMark=False&Page=
idea what I am doing, I just picked a motherboard that would take a
fast Intel CPU and had RAID on it. I'm really glad I started hanging
out here. Right now I'm ambivalent about getting into the home-build
arena at all at this point. My 6 year old MSI6398 mini-tower is
running XPpro just fine right now. I THINK most of my nagging
insecurity was remedied by a new power supply. But the recent struggle
has got me interested in, at least, finding out how to put together a
cuttingedge machine. WHEN to make the jump is the question right now.
Another question from a beginner: how much good will a Dual Core CPU
do me running XP with almost all my software apps about 5 years old?
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