Any ATX AM3 Motherboards with IDE Currently Available?

[gingersoft]

Hi.

I have the following system.

Desktop PC
AMD PhenomII X6 1100T
Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H Motherboard
4 x 2Gb G Skill RAM
Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 Graphics Card
Silverstone OP 650 PSU
Cooler Master Hyper TX3 CPU heatsink

I would like to replace my motherboard but keep everything else, however, cannot find one that offers both SATA and IDE (which my current one does).

Is there a reason why IDE is offered on current micro ATX boards but not ATX boards? I am assuming I need an ATX board as the above CPU heatsink is quite large and there also needs to be room for the graphics card.

If I cannot find an ATX motherboard with IDE, I was considering the following.

Gigabyte 970A-DS3P Socket AM3+ ATX Motherboard

Unfortunately, the above does not offer onboard graphics. You may question why I need this when I have a graphics card, but in all my experience of using my pc, there usually comes a time when something goes wrong with the graphics and I have to survive/rely on onboard graphics, as I am currently!

Is an ATX board with IDE and onboard graphics too much to ask these days? If I cannot find one, are those SATA/IDE converters really reliable or are they just some gimmick that work a few times and then get burnt out?

Also, if anyone does have the above motherboard with a similar size CPU heatsink and graphics card combination, it would be helpful to know that it all fits in the same PC before I purchase.

Thanks.

 

[camieabz]

Perhaps a PCIe to IDE solution?

That way, you can take it to future mobo upgrades.

 

[CountMike]

Some things are gone way of Dodo, IDE, Parallel port, PCI, Game port, Firewire, expect soon demise of USB2, PS/2, serial port and many others. All of them present great bottleneck to new systems or have nothing to plug in them any more.
Just like ISO bus gave way to PCI and it to PCIe. many other obsolete parts and ports which just can't keep pace.
If I had a IDE drive now it would greatly slow down my disk/file system on an M.2 SSD and reduce it's usefulness being 100 times faster. Heck, even SATA3 HDDs put a crimp in it.

 

[alif_jamil]

"Is an ATX board with IDE and onboard graphics too much to ask these days?"
Yes, unfortunately.

However, you may look at the following board as a replacement with onboard graphics a step down but otherwise supports both AM3 and AM3+ socket processors up to 125 watts TDP (includes Phenom II X6 processors AND AM3+ FX series/ visheras). Has IDE port.

But the question is why do you need IDE? Do you have a boot drive (IDE HDD) or an optical drive (IDE CD/DVD) that you want to use to boot your system up? In those cases, I would recommend 2 alternates (when you opt for a full ATX board without IDE):
1. For a bootable optical medium, switch to either a USB external enclosure to fit your ODD or a USB Flash drive with the optical medium's ISO image and you are good to go.
2. If you need to boot from your IDE HDD, get a storage controller card based on PCI-express (x1 ?). An example is https://www.startech.com/Cards-Adapters/HDD-Controllers/IDE/1-Port-PCI-Express-IDE-Adapter-Card~PEX2IDE

I ran into a similar problem few years back and I went for a brand-less PCI-IDE card (without boot support)/ It had a VIA VT6421 chip and it worked like a charm in both Windows and Linux. HTH.

Edit: The card I mentioned earlier doesn't offer booting option. So here's the correct one:
https://www.amazon.com/VT6421A-3-Port-SATA-Raid-Controller/dp/B000YMJ6ZE

Hope the OP is still active on THG.

 

[nobspls]

Most likely you can get away with some cheap ide to sata adapters. Probably something like this:
https://www.amazon.com/QNINE-Adapter-Convert-Laptop-Serial/dp/B06VVZ41J5/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1536971316&sr=1-1-spons&keywords=ide+to+sata&psc=1

Or this
https://www.amazon.com/SODIAL-40-Pin-Female-22-Pin-adapter/dp/B073VK465C/ref=sr_1_4?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1536971378&sr=1-4&keywords=ide+to+sata

Do shop around, and make sure the gender is correct one for you situation. 2.5" vs 3.5" hard drives, etc. etc. Got to make sure the stuff fits.