help needed looking for am2 board with 2 ide

[loady]

Hi,

I currently have a good skt 939 board which i am going to pass on in a new build, i want to get an am2 board but i am finding it extremely difficult to find one that has 2 ide ports, i need to run 2 writers on seperate channell as i burn catalouge discs from image files, since sata dvd drives are pretty non existent at the moment i cant understand why makers have dropped an ide port on these boards!!!, one board i tried to buy is an epox EP-MF570 SLi, unfortunately i cant find it anywhere to buy in the uk, i want a board with at least 4 sata 2 ports, at least 4 rear usb ports and i want to run fast ddr2 ram on it, does anyne have any suggestions ?.

I thought about getting any board with 1 ide port and then getting an ide add on card but would this be a viable soloution ? will system performance suffer ? and would i be able to write 2 discs at the same time without error ?

thanks.

 

[Jumping]

The Abit KN9 which OCuk sell's seems to full fill your requirements.

I had a quick look at some of the newer chipset's motherboards and they seem to have only one IDE connector.

I also found this Asus board M2N4-SLI again its a NF4 chipset motherboard.

 

[loady]

This is the problem, i would like the newer nforce5 chipset, i have spent all yesterday and this morning looking around and i have decided that i am going to bite the bullet and go for a board with one ide controller, so now i am looking for a board with a minimum of 6 sata controllers in anticipation of the arrival of sata dvd writers (hold breath), for the meantime i will buy a ide add on card and see if that will work for the short term, i am now looking at the msi K9N SLI Platinum as it has 6 sata 2 ports, im not really concerned about running 2 graphics cards though as i am a console gamer, this board seems ok but doesnt look very feature filled, can anyone reccomend anything else far better for around the same money (£97) ??

 

[loady]

PS...bare in mind that i am also looking into getting into overclocking so that is a major feature i would like.

 

[Jumping]

Well if you want something to overclock you really should look at the Intel Core 2 Duo's as they clock a lot better than the current AMD chips, they are also a lot faster on a clock to clock basis.

So if you look at an E6300 or E6400, an Intel p965 mobo or the new Nvidia 650i boards. You should be able to overclock nicely.