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

 

[Guest]

Most 965 board will come with ONE and only one IDE connection. They dont include any PATA controller but motherboard maker add one themself.

Some people say that if you connect the HD and the CD-ROM/DVD drive, everything will fall back to ATA33 , I have not yet verified this but I would suspect it to be right.

If that is the case, then you will get a performance hit.

In itself there is not difference in performance between ata133 and sata150/300. But since the the HD you would be buying might be more recent, then it might change something.

I found a lite-on SATA DVD for under 30$, pretty good,SATA DVD burner are still too expensive sinc eonly Plextor makes one as far as I know.

 

[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

Don't crosspost.

 

[WR2]

Welcome to the THG Forumz.
Usually only 1 post with the same question is required.
See your other forum post here

 

[kukito]

The motherboards include an IDE controller but that limits you to two IDE drives. I bought this SATA DVD-ROM drive and used one of these to connect my DVD burner. That leaves my IDE ports free for additional drives. So far I've been able to boot from either optical drive and write to the burner without any problems. On a different build using recycled components I installed an IDE hard disk drive as master and an IDE DVD-ROM drive as slave. I was able to install Windows from CD using this configuration even though I don't feel comfortable combining a HDD and an optical drive on the same channel. I might use another one of those adapters to connect an old 4x DVD burner. I'm reluctant to use the adapter for a hard disk. Another option is to get a PCI IDE controller.

 

[Frank_M]

I found a lite-on SATA DVD for under 30$, pretty good,SATA DVD burner are still too expensive sinc eonly Plextor makes one as far as I know.

I saw some Samsung SATA DVDs even here, so there must be some more.

 

[Guest]

Burner?

Well well would you look at that!:
Neweeg LitOn Burner SATA

And OEM

 

[Guest]

Well just bought the OEM one, free shipping with paypal.

We'll see how it goes! =)