nice overclocking board for i7 2600k

steelwolf · 13 Dec 2011 at 23:24

Ive decided to bite the bullet and do the switch over to intel, so im gonna start off with a 2600k but im struggleing to find a motherboard.

Im looking in the range of about £150-£200 and have been eyeing up the asrock gen 3 but then noticed it doesnt have an ide connector, i know that its pretty old tech now but ive got a couple of hdds id like to continue using =p

So my question, does the asrock have ide and if not is there a better board out there for the kind of money im wanting to spend? I will be cooling with water and hope to get a pretty good oc so thats important too. Maybe sli in the future but not crucial.

thx in advance.

Hyburnate · 13 Dec 2011 at 23:26

The only 1155 IDE board I know is the Asrock Fatal1ty. The P67 has 2 of them...

steelwolf · 13 Dec 2011 at 23:31

Hyburnate said:
The only 1155 IDE board I know is the Asrock Fatal1ty. The P67 has 2 of them...

So i would have to drop the z68 chipset to keep an ide

Surveyor · 13 Dec 2011 at 23:34

The Fatal1ty P67 Professional and Performance have 1 IDE connector which you can use to connect 2 drives (master and slave).

Surveyor · 13 Dec 2011 at 23:35

steelwolf said:
So i would have to drop the z68 chipset to keep an ide

The Fatal1ty Z68 Professional Gen3 also has 1 IDE connector for 2 drives.

steelwolf · 13 Dec 2011 at 23:39

Surveyor said:
The Fatal1ty Z68 Professional Gen3 also has 1 IDE connector for 2 drives.

I was just looking at it here on ocuk but wasnt sure if it had it or not, You think its worth going to the fatality for the ide? maybe i should move on from ide, I just like having it there just incase + i got 2 hdds thats are still ide =p

My current mb is m3a79-t and has been great but just wont cut it.

Surveyor · 13 Dec 2011 at 23:43

If you want to be able to use your IDE drives then you'll need to buy one of the few motherboards that still support it.

Or you can buy a cheap IDE controller card and use it with another board if you have a preference.

Unless you're also getting/have a SATA drive then you'd need to make sure you can boot from the card.

steelwolf · 14 Dec 2011 at 00:08

Surveyor said:
If you want to be able to use your IDE drives then you'll need to buy one of the few motherboards that still support it.

Or you can buy a cheap IDE controller card and use it with another board if you have a preference.

Unless you're also getting/have a SATA drive then you'd need to make sure you can boot from the card.

Yeah i got 4 sata drives and 2 ide s but im thinking maybe just ditch the ide s and invest in a ssd. But at least i got a few options now.

thx for the help

Hyburnate · 14 Dec 2011 at 00:09

I just stuck my nose in to my case and it has 1 next to the 24Pin and one next to the 3rd PCI-E lane...

Davefran · 14 Dec 2011 at 00:22

Hyburnate said:
I just stuck my nose in to my case and it has 1 next to the 24Pin and one next to the 3rd PCI-E lane...

The other one's a floppy connector.

Ditch the Ide drives, they're dinosaurs now

Surveyor · 14 Dec 2011 at 00:23

Hyburnate said:
and one next to the 3rd PCI-E lane...

That's a floppy drive connector.

How quaint.

Karateyid · 14 Dec 2011 at 07:05

invest in SATA drives.... tis the future..

If you can afford it go for SSD you will see a massive jump in the performance..