Looking for new board, would i be mad to include IDE?

[Ugley_Matt]

I am looking up grade my old socket 939 set-up which currently has 3 60GB IDE drives. Would i be daft trying to get a motherboard with IDE and instead just sell the 3 drives, get a 250ish SATA one and then not worry about the IDE compatibility of the MB?

 

[bhavv]

Well, good luck finding a new board with only a single IDE slot

I vote for madness!

 

[Ugley_Matt]

I would more than likely be going second hand but still, it would limit my choices wouldn't it.

 

[stulid]

It might be easier to get an add in card that gives a IDE port.

 

[Hagar]

My gigabyte AMD mobo has one IDE port and I found it useful until I bought some SATA drives. With the price of hard drives ATM it may be a good idea to have one, or a cheap used IDE raid card to boot from.

 

[Ugley_Matt]

Thinking about it, i have a IDE DVD RW drive so i would have to replace that as well wouldnt I. bugger that then starts to eat into an already small budget for the rest of things.

An IDE add in card you say..... that would be something to consider, thanks for the tip.

But it looks like it is possible to get a newer AM3 board, albeit 2nd hand with at least one IDE port, so thats good to know. Least i have options.

 

[~Divine~Wind~]

A Sata DVD burner costs what? £12 ?
Do any of the board support IDE Raid?

 

[ace-rimmer]

why upgrade from 939 if your sticking with ide.

 

[Ugley_Matt]

Moot point now as i have just got a 250GB sata drive so i dont need to worry about the IDE thing anymore.

 

[Purgatory]

If you are going Intel the Asrock Z68 Fatality Pro has an IDE and Floppy. It also has 10 SATA. I have this motherboard and it is great.