DS3 compatability

bushmins · 24 Nov 2006 at 20:14

Will a Gigbyte DS3 take all my old disk drives and hard drive from my agp board?

Also if i by 2 x 512meg Corisar XMS2 ram and put into the board a certain way will it give me more preformance?

Thanks in advance for any advise.

bushmins · 24 Nov 2006 at 21:40

Thanks for the reply.
This is new ground for me. Lucky i noticed before i went and bought new drives to go with the board.

The SATA is the little round plug (8 sockets on the on the DS3)
I have a IDE hard, DVD and CD ROM drives in my AGP board atm.

So i could use my DVD and CD ROM drives on the DS3, but i would have to get a new SATA Harddrive. Will a SATA HDD give a better performance than my old IDE?

bushmins · 24 Nov 2006 at 22:07

Since i was going to get a new Hard drive anyway ill get a SATA one and use the old IDE DVD and CD disk drives. Although on a quick search i cant find DVD and CD drives with sata connectors... am i getting confused?

To install the SATA harddrive and motherboard im guessing that i will need a SATA PSU to connect the mother board and hard drive to.

bushmins · 25 Nov 2006 at 01:16

Does the DS3 motherboard have a standard power socket?

bushmins · 25 Nov 2006 at 15:21

I also just noticed that the DS3 has a 24pin power connector, where my old intel motherboard has a 20pin connector.
I have seen cables that will convert the old style 20 pin to the new 24 pin, are these good to use? Any bad sides to using them? Same goes with the IDE to SATA power changer.