Motherboard advice

[dern]

Has anyone bought a new socket A motherboard suitable for an AMD 2400 XP recently that they can recommend. I have DDR400 memory to go in it too.

Thanks,

Mark

[plotloss]

Asus A7N8X is the last Socket A board I bought, seems good enough.

[rsvmilly]

dern said:

Has anyone bought a new socket A motherboard suitable for an AMD 2400 XP recently that they can recommend. I have DDR400 memory to go in it too. Thanks, Mark

Abit NF7S rev 2.0 is what I run. It has SATA and dual channel RAM. Very fast and the choice of a lot of overclockers. Includes onboard 6 channel sound.

[arcturus]

I have bought a few Asus A7V600-X and I like them. Running them with XP3200+ chips, DDR400 and SATA drives. Nice and quick.

[dern]

arcturus said:

I have bought a few Asus A7V600-X and I like them. Running them with XP3200+ chips, DDR400 and SATA drives. Nice and quick.

I don't know much about SATA drives but understand them to be faster. I was planning on buying a new hard drive too so that makes sense. The problem I'm trying to resolve is probably the motherboard (it is quite old) and if that turns out to be the case then I'll have 2 IDE drives and an IDE cd drive I'll want to connect up.

Can I connect 1 SATA and 3 IDE devices to this board?

Thanks,

Mark

[rsvmilly]

dern said:

arcturus said: I have bought a few Asus A7V600-X and I like them. Running them with XP3200+ chips, DDR400 and SATA drives. Nice and quick. I don't know much about SATA drives but understand them to be faster. I was planning on buying a new hard drive too so that makes sense. The problem I'm trying to resolve is probably the motherboard (it is quite old) and if that turns out to be the case then I'll have 2 IDE drives and an IDE cd drive I'll want to connect up. Can I connect 1 SATA and 3 IDE devices to this board? Thanks, Mark

'Some' SATA drives are faster than the best EIDE drives. You could just get one of the faster IDE drives like Western Digital with 8Mb cache. Its bus speed is 100mhz but in benchmarks it is faster than plenty of 133mhz drives.


You would need a controller card for the SATA drive. You could then get a Western Digital Raptor SATA which has an access time of roughly half the IDE drives. I have one of these and my PC flies.

But whatever you do, don't buy IBM Deathstars - I had two go pop within a month.

[dern]

Thanks for all the advice.

rsvmilly said:

But whatever you do, don't buy IBM Deathstars - I had two go pop within a month.

I worked for them for 2 years and had 4 pcs go pop... wouldn't buy an IBM anything.

Regards,

Mark

[malman]

Beware these are now Hitachi deathstars IBM sold them off