Replacements - Have a look

Post by **rep** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 1:26 pm

MSI: Winner, regardless of the board. K7N2 Delta2 isn't bad.

I don't know about the PSU, but I can say that I've never had problems with Western Digital drives.

The case shouldn't matter. Just keep it out of the way and quiet.

Post by **DiscoDave** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 2:02 pm

Why dont you get a SATA drive rather than an IDE one?

Post by **ilum0s** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 2:24 pm

Going slightly off topic, how hard is SATA to set up in comparison to IDE, I'm thinking what kinda stuff do you have to do if you want to install a fresh copy of XP on a SATA drive?

Post by **Kills On Site** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 4:55 pm

Well Kazi and i have been working on his replacement parts for some time, I am pretty sure this si the drive he means to get. Western Digital Caviar 80GB SATA 8MB cache.
That drive is SATA and have an 8MB cache, both are g ood for performance and onmy 4 bucks more.

The only difference between SATA and IDE is most mobos don't have this IDE emulator for SATA so you have to use a floppy to get the drivers for the SATA drive. Other then that.
The emulator I speak of, not sure that is exactly what it is, but I know the ABit IC7-G doesn't require the drivers while other, most, mobos do

Post by **ilum0s** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 3:18 pm

OK, thanks for clearing that up for me.