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Yup. See that blue connector on the board? That's a primary IDE connector.

Tony
 
so I couldn't have 2 IDE drives and a cd? Thanks. Am I correct, then, in understanding that SATA and IDE are not interchangeable?
 
from the looks of the board you can have:
2 CD drives on the blue ide connector
2 harddrives on the red ide connector
4 sata drives

also the do make optical drives for sata now
 
You could purchase a SATA to IDE convertor or buy a SATA DVDRW for example:



But as you are probably aware many newer boards now only come with one IDE connection so only two IDE devices, at the same time these boards have 4 or more SATA connections available.
I have this Samsung DVDRW drive because of this issue and it works very well.
Martin

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Aha..The red is an ide connection. I didn't know that CD Drives had different connectors. Is that just in 64 bit? I bought the last two drives about eight months ago. Then they said don't bother with SATA.

Thanks a lot. Both great helps.
 
Nope* SATA DVDRW's work on any board with a SATA connection, nothing to do with the operating system.

As I said above, many users are now being forced to go SATA because of the partial drop (one less connection) of IDE's on a lot of the new motherboards.
Martin

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64 bit has nothing to do with drive configuration...the manufacturer of the motherboard chooses what what drives and how many for that model...you got lucky ...some boards only have 2 SATA connectors and 1 IDE connector
 
I figured as much..but the manufacturers on the ones that fit all my needs do have only one or no IDE connection. I have drives as well as dvdrw right now, and working on keeping the final cost low, I don't want to add them to the components I need to buy. I'm looking...
This looks promising. DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard
 
Thanks. That was actually my second choice. I went with a slightly less expensive MSI. I appreciate all your hellp. Now just to get a good cpu fan, then put it together.
 
with the socket 939 CPU's I have found the stock retail CPU fan that comes with the CPU keeps the temperatures in an acceptable range. The CPU's run nice and cool with an average of 84 F-90 F degrees. not bad compared to the old AMD CPU's
 
This is an oem chip without fan, unfortunately.
 
Whatever store you went to that said don't bother with SATA 6 months ago. Don't go back there. They don't deserve your money. Just my thoughts.

Cheers
Rob
 
I didn't. It's a split between Newegg, buy.com and Tiger.
New egg charged me tax.
 
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