hey there. i have come back with another issue. I have an asus p5wdg2 ws proffesional motherboard. My vga card came today and when starting to install all of the components i just don't know where on the motherboard should i connect the optical drives. i have a dvdrw combo and a dvd reader. also i have a 160gb seagate ata hdd. the motherboard has just one primary ide connector where i put in my ide hdd cable. What can i do? i have a cable for the optical drives but i dont know where to put it on the mobo.it may sound silly this question but i havent upgraded in 3 years and some things seam strange to me. thx in advance
i guess u cannot use ur dvd reader...U wil have to use only ur HDD and DVD combo.. other wise u have one more option left... u can get an IDE to SATA converter... therefore this converts ur HDD(IDE) to SATA.. so that u can use both DVD reader and COMBO... I am not sure abt the performance variation incase if u convert ur IDE hdd to SATA...people say that that transfer rate is increased after converting their IDE hdd to SATA... but i Dont think it does..if i am not wrong.. so pls check it out...
ah, you have a nice board there. Anyhoo, heard of an IDE controller card? never tried one myself, but you can get them in PCI for definite. I see your board also has PCIX slots, mayB you can get controller cards in that form which may be faster, but never heard of a SATA - IDE converter thing. My advice is a controller card
chk dis out... SATA Acessories including IDE to SATA Adapter tats how the adapter looks... anyways...i guess this adapter thing must be cheaper than the PCIx cards...bcos this circuit doesnt seem to be like a complicated one... neways.. jus chk it out..
SATA to IDE converters have been around for a few years. Initially, they did have some performance degredation, but now, I don't think it's an issue. You may want a controller card, as you will probably find them cheaper than one, let alone 2 SATA/IDE converters.
