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Hello there, i know that OEM means that you dont get all the fancey stuff you get with retail. But what do you get exacly?

If you buy an OEM hard drive or dvd drive. Do you get the cables to connect it? or do you only get them in retail?


thanks.
 
It's impossible to give exact contents on everything, but harddisks/dvd drives will literally just be the drives, you might get some screws with the dvd drive if you're lucky though.
 
Hard Drives are just the bare drive in an antistatic bag.
Optical Drives are the same but may come with OEM software (Nero/PowerDVD).

You can use the data cables that come with the motherboard (IDE/SATA etc).
 
OO didn't think about the ones that come with the motherboard. I beleive it will come with two so thats not a problem.

Annoyingly i have an ide dvd drive and hard drive and only 1 ide port. I will upgrade the hard drive to sata because it will probly be better and faster, plus ive already had the hard drive die once on me and they put a new one of the same in so im worried it will just happen again.

The dvd drive, will i really see an improvement over ide with a sata? I dont really burn disks. Im just looking for a good reader which i could burn a disk now and again if i wanted to do a back up.
 
There is zero difference in performance from IDE to SATA on Optical Drives and about 1% on Hard Drives :) They are just handy due to the smaller cables and lack of IDE ports, like you have.
 
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thats a single sata2 hdd i dont think ide hdd's will run that fast tbh

in my book thats about a 40% increase on a top sata drive
 
Me and me mate bought some EVGA 8800 GTX KO ACS3 gfx cards that were OEM on Saturday

Retail boxed ones were £423 and we got ours for £325.. Bargain if you ask me and we didnt need any leads coz we already had em..

Also got the full 10 year warranty with them as well... Superb
 
yhou say you have 1 die hdd and 1 ide optical drive. you can run both of them from one ide port. ide cables normaly have a 2 connectiors on them a master and slave. use the hdd as amaster and also set jumpers n back of it to master.
 
8igdave said:
id rather just get a new hard drive. I dont like the one i have.
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Don't just get rid of it use is for down loading torrents to save your C: or storage drive form waring form all the extra reads and writes or use it to backup you C: with Ghost or Acornis.
 
mmm. How does fitting 2 ide into one port work? u say having to "jump it" also. Will it affect the connection of my dvd drive? id rather have a sata hard drive and an ide dvd drive working fully then have 2 hard drives. I dont need two i dont even use 200gb.
 
8igdave said:
mmm. How does fitting 2 ide into one port work? u say having to "jump it" also. Will it affect the connection of my dvd drive? id rather have a sata hard drive and an ide dvd drive working fully then have 2 hard drives. I dont need two i dont even use 200gb.
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You know, you could learn all this perfectly well with google instead of asking everyone everything.

A PATA cable has two connectors on the one cable, which means you connect two PATA devices to one PATA port. Not very complicated, is it?

And no, "jump it" will not affect your DVD drive, save making it a slave/master.
 
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