Re: Mainboard decision with 2 IDE/PATA connectors
- From: Paul <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:43:54 -0500
Herbert Meister wrote:
Can't find a board with two IDE connectors to connect 3-4 IDE devices. Should I just get some SATA2IDE converters or is that problematic (i.e. with DVD-burner)? Or should I rather take a seperate IDE pci card?
I think I will buy a E6850 processor for multimedia development PC for the office. Is there any board which can be recommended for a stable system? I am also thinking about buying 4 GB which obviously can not be full accessed via Windows XP - or should I use rather 3 GB? Does RAM speed realy matter or can I use a more cheap RAM?
Thanks in advance!
If you use the "Advanced Search" on Newegg, you can specify the things you want.
For example, I notice some 650i based boards have two IDE connectors.
http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=280&name=Intel-Motherboards
A number of the boards returned, use stuff like VIA chipsets. Some of them
don't support a fast enough FSB. (FSB1333 for the E6850.) And of the
boards with 650i, the review ratings weren't that high.
Once you've identified a board you're interested in, the next
task is to find a CPU Support chart, and see if the E6850 is
supported. I see an entry for the E6850 here.
http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&model=p5n-e%20sli
You can also find PCI cards with two IDE connectors on them. There
are cards with the SIL 0680 chip on them. There are also the
Promise branded cards.
As for SATA to IDE adapter products, it is hard to keep track of those.
The initial ones were crap. Some later ones seemed to work. Again,
if you can find a product like that listed on Newegg, there
should be some comments on it.
Paul
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