Re: Help with SATA mobo and IDE drives

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"rock" <1940@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

I have an old Asus TUSL-C mobo at the moment with 2 IDE HD in the box, 2
hanging off a pci controller and 3 externals. I use it for video and
audio editing.

I am upgrading looks like to the 2 Core Quad Asus P5Q3 (deluxe?) with a
Q8200 CPU.

I am not sure what lower priced graphics card yet (must have 2 VGA out).

I understand the mobo only has 2 PCI slots and is all SATA.

How do I arrange my HDrives here? Do I need to get at least 1 SATA drive
for my XP?

I also use 1 PCI for mu M-Audio 4 in/4 out box card and 1 for my SB_live
sound card.

I will use the mobo LAN and USB/Firewire and I guess anything else I can.

How do I get over my hard drive connections and possible PCI slot use?

Thanks


oz


rock (or oz?)...
I think you've already gotten some good info from a number of responders to
your query but let me add a few comments...

1. I take it you're aware that motherboard accepts only DDR3 memory, yes?
Not that this is a problem, but I mention it only because DDR3 memory is
still a bit pricey (at least here in the U.S. as compared with DDR2) and
frankly we've not (yet) experienced any significant "real-life" performance
with DDR3 memory as compared with DDR2. On the other hand DDR3 memory cost
has significantly decreased over the past couple of months or so and should
continue to do so and surely will become the memory of choice in the
not-too-distant future.

2. There's little question that unless you're financially strapped at the
moment you should go the SATA HDD route with that motherboard. Actually
you're practically forced to with that board. While the board is not "all
SATA" in that it is equipped with a single IDE channel, you could
theoretically install two PATA HDDs via that channel. Obviously your optical
drive would need to be a SATA device.

But as a practical matter it would be close to a sin not equipping your
system with at least a SATA boot drive. If you can possibly swing it
financially do consider one or more of the Western Digital VelociRaptor
models. See, for example...
http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/products.asp?DriveID=459
I can practically guarantee that you won't regret that purchase. We've been
most impressed with these WD VelociRaptor models.

Hopefully, as has been suggested, you can at least install one of your PATA
HDDs on the IDE channel or possibly two if you install an optical drive with
a SATA interface and/or use some external enclosures to house the remaining
PATA HDD(s).

I suppose you could install a PATA HDD controller card in one of the PCI
slots, but that arrangement doesn't exactly thrill me given the quality of
that ASUS board.

3. I believe you mentioned in another post suggestions for a graphic card to
drive multiple monitors. Take a look at Tom's Hardware site for their latest
(April) graphics card recommendations and other background info...
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-geforce-gtx,2270.html
Anna


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