Right then....ordered my kit yesterday in a bit of a fluster after a morning full of moidering kids.....(roll on Sept
)
9am - Delivery guy is knocking the door with it all (nice job OC!!)....
Unpack all the crisp and clean new parts like a kid in a sweet shop and have a scan over some of the manuals, then time to get crackin'.
Very slowly and methodically, I start to lay things on the table and assemble everything, just as I was told in the 1000's of online reviews etc when....disaster..... I realised I haven't ordered a bloody hard drive
I'd chopped and changed the order so much over the last week, I'd forgotten to put the thing back on the list - and as I said, the kids had been pestering me to death - that's my excuse anyway
I'm going all modern now and ditching my old EIDE drives and going SATA. I've just been on the phone and ordered a Samsung Spinpoint 500gb to go with my Samsung SH-S203BEBN sata burner (that I HAD remembered to order!
)
My first question is regarding the sata connectors on the mobo (Giga P35C DS3R). There are three pairs of yellow connectors and one pair of purple connectors. From what I can make out from the manual, the yellow ones support 3gb/sec and the purple supports 3gb/sec but also supports 3.5gb/sec. Is my new hdd to go on the purple when it gets here, hopefully tomorrow? It states it's sata2 - is this the faster 3.5gb/sec?
My second question is the burner...I went to plug in the audio cable to connect to the CD-in on the mobo, but there's nothing for there - just the socket for the power from the PSU next to the data socket for the sata cable to the mobo. Does this mean that the sound goes via the data cable too?
Thanks for any help....(and stop laughing now plz
)

9am - Delivery guy is knocking the door with it all (nice job OC!!)....
Unpack all the crisp and clean new parts like a kid in a sweet shop and have a scan over some of the manuals, then time to get crackin'.
Very slowly and methodically, I start to lay things on the table and assemble everything, just as I was told in the 1000's of online reviews etc when....disaster..... I realised I haven't ordered a bloody hard drive

I'd chopped and changed the order so much over the last week, I'd forgotten to put the thing back on the list - and as I said, the kids had been pestering me to death - that's my excuse anyway

I'm going all modern now and ditching my old EIDE drives and going SATA. I've just been on the phone and ordered a Samsung Spinpoint 500gb to go with my Samsung SH-S203BEBN sata burner (that I HAD remembered to order!

My first question is regarding the sata connectors on the mobo (Giga P35C DS3R). There are three pairs of yellow connectors and one pair of purple connectors. From what I can make out from the manual, the yellow ones support 3gb/sec and the purple supports 3gb/sec but also supports 3.5gb/sec. Is my new hdd to go on the purple when it gets here, hopefully tomorrow? It states it's sata2 - is this the faster 3.5gb/sec?
My second question is the burner...I went to plug in the audio cable to connect to the CD-in on the mobo, but there's nothing for there - just the socket for the power from the PSU next to the data socket for the sata cable to the mobo. Does this mean that the sound goes via the data cable too?
Thanks for any help....(and stop laughing now plz
