What components do i need to go from AGP > PCI-E

Posty · 19 Jul 2006 at 13:43

Aside from the CPU motherboard and a PCI-E graphics card is there anything else, like PSU (mine is over 3 years old) and go hard drive? (currently have a IDE is SATA better?)

Stelly · 19 Jul 2006 at 13:47

Yes you would technically need a new HDD as the IDE port on the new motherboards as really used just for optical drives, I think that you will need a new PSU tbh, Seasonic are really good too... if you are going for an AM2 board or a Intel based chip then you will also need DDR2 memory

Stelly

BigDom · 19 Jul 2006 at 13:48

Minimum is Mobo, CPU and graphics. If you go AM2/Conroe you need Memory too ( I'm guessing you have DDR ) and PROBABLY worth getting a new PSU although if you have a quality one with decent wattage ( 450+ ) you can certainly try it.

PSU wise Seasonic, Tagan and enermax are very popular around here.

HDD is absolutely fine, SATA is better but no need to upgrade unless you need more space.

@Stelly I think you'll find more people, with SATA mobo's, are using IDE disks than SATA. The mobo's are as capable of using IDE disks as ever.

t31os · 19 Jul 2006 at 14:14

I think what he's referring to is that some boards only get 1 ide port now iirc.

Stelly · 19 Jul 2006 at 14:17

t31os said:
I think what he's referring to is that some boards only get 1 ide port now iirc.

Yes I was and if you use a cdrom/dvd drive on the same IDE cable as a hdd then you will definately notice a performance drop

Stelly