DS3 compatability

bushmins

bushmins

bushmins

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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.
 
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It will only take 2 IDE drives.

If you put the RAM into memory slots that are the same colour you'll get better performance than if you put it into slots that are different colours.
 
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?
 
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.
 
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the IDE/PATA Optical Drives are fine. connect them to the IDE Channel on the board

Get a new SATA I or SATA II drive and connect that to eitehr the orange or purple sata ports.

If getting a new PSU make sure it has SATA power conenctors as well as shielded PCI-Express 6-pin connectors for future-proofing

If using an existing power supply with only has the standard 4-pin molex conenctors, you can usually get a small cable patch that hooks that up to the sata power socket on a sata drive.
 
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.
 
bushmins said:
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.
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Hi,

you can get SATA DVD-Burners from Samsung and also Plextor. Some Sata hard disks (Hitachi) accept power from molex or sata. If you buy a hard drive that has only sata power u need a molex to sata adapter (these are normally included with most new mobos).
 
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