Re: CPU questions...

I demand that Alex may or may not have written...

On Mar 28, 12:48 pm, Darren Salt
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I demand that Alex may or may not have written...
[snip]
Oh, and one more question ... this mobo along with most newer ones use
SATA as opposed to IDE. I have a TON of IDE drives, so is there a
simple way to connect an IDE drive to a SATA HD controller? And if
so, any performance hits doing this?
If you're connecting <= 2 drives, there shouldn't be any problem - it
looks like that board has IDE support.
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Newegg doesn't list IDE as an option on this mobo -
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813127030 - but it
could be mistaken. I'll check the ABIT site because if it does have IDE,
whatta bonus!

Click on the motherboard image (these things tend to be links to various
photographs of the item). Click on the third thumbnail from the left. Notice
the helpful labelling. :-)

Someone in another thread pointed me to this site -
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=SIL3611&cat=CBL - and $11 ain't bad
for an IDE to SATA bridge.

Hmm, about £5; yes, I see some for around that price (plus P&P and probably
VAT, I shouldn't be surprised), and some more expensive ones. Still, so long
as it copes with anything (protocol-wise) that you're likely to want to throw
at it, it should be fine – smartctl's a good one for testing this: I have an
external USB enclosure which uses a PL2507. Helpfully, it responds to
smartctl's requests with errors; still, it doesn't get used a lot...

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I'd like to, but I prefer to remain an enigma.
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