ATA on P965 based motherboards?

[imbahibe]

hi, I read the tomshardware review on P965 based mobos. Please forgive my ignorance, but I have a few questions, as I'm building a pc with mainly new components, but with a few rather old components. I read these motherboards do not have ATA connectors on the motherboard, but they have ATA controllers. Is it possible to connect an ATA133 hard disk (maxtor d740x) AND an ATAPI dvd writer (pioneer 110-d) to such cards through ATA controllers? If it is possible, is there a lower performance than there would have been through a normal connection? Last thing, buying a SATA hard disk instead of using my old one, how much would performance be increased? Would keeping my old hard disk limit the performance of the pc's other components(core2duo E6400 and ATI X1950pro)? Thank you very much for your time

 

[express4520]

hi, I read the tomshardware review on P965 based mobos. Please forgive my ignorance, but I have a few questions, as I'm building a pc with mainly new components, but with a few rather old components. I read these motherboards do not have ATA connectors on the motherboard, but they have ATA controllers. Is it possible to connect an ATA133 hard disk (maxtor d740x) AND an ATAPI dvd writer (pioneer 110-d) to such cards through ATA controllers? If it is possible, is there a lower performance than there would have been through a normal connection? Last thing, buying a SATA hard disk instead of using my old one, how much would performance be increased? Would keeping my old hard disk limit the performance of the pc's other components(core2duo E6400 and ATI X1950pro)? Thank you very much for your time

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