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[ArchAngel.]

Really?
SATA?
I thot that was like rlly advanced, because in all the reviews I've seen on new egg for the mobo's people go OMG IT HAS A SATA PORT!!! GEE EFF GEE!!!
Lol...
That's good to know though.

[Fatal]

your current rig probably isnt TOOOOO old... i mean its not like a 2000 rig SATA is good

Reasons:

Faster interface
Smaller, cleaner looking cables
SATA drives (hardrives in particular) support 2 types of power cables, you can use a basic 4 pin molex cable, or a SATA power cable
About the same price for the cable, cheaper if you know how to bargain hunt

Cons:

Not many DVD/CD drives support it yet
SATA hard drives USUALLY cost literally a few dollars more (oh the misery, oh jeeze, wtf would i do with that 2-3 dollars?)

Edited by Fatal, 07 March 2007 - 05:49 PM.

[ArchAngel.]

I'm guessing my DVD drive supports it since it's actually pretty good.
Sounds good.
This weekend I'm off.

[Fatal]

highly doubt your DVD drive supports it, they're kind of rare like i said in the past post

[ArchAngel.]

o.o
You said I have a SATA drive...
Therfore, my DVD should be SATA compatible as well?
Want the model?

edit
HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4163B

-edit
you're right...
it's IDE.

Edited by ArchAngel., 07 March 2007 - 06:22 PM.

[Fatal]

lol just because your motherboard and hard drive support SATA doesnt mean your other drives do

[ArchAngel.]

GodDamnit...
Does that mean I need a new DVD drive too?

[Fatal]

LOL no you're fine, all new motherboards support IDE, just the newer intel's only support 2 IDE devices instead of the normal 4 like most boards

[ArchAngel.]

Ftw...
Don't I need a mobo that supports 1 IDE for the DVD and 1 SATA for the HD then plugs for everything else...?

[Fatal]

the mobo you would be getting has 5 internal SATA ports, and 1 external SATA port, so you have more than enough SATA ports for future upgrades and everything, and for IDE you can have up to 2 devices, so if you have 2 ROM's you can use both, or if you have 1 rom drive, and a IDE hardrive, you can possibly do that too if the cable is long enough

[ArchAngel.]

Well...
You kinda lost me at Roms...
The external SATA sounds good though.
Would be yummy for an external slave drive.

[Fatal]

lol sounds retarded to me, but w/e

[ArchAngel.]

Wtf is your problem man?
Why do you have to burst a hardware scrubbies bubble?
Lol. jk.

What would you do with the port?

[Fatal]

with an external one? Not sure really how you could use it.....

[ArchAngel.]

Wow...
And you said I had a bad idea?
Yours is a piece of shit.

[Fatal]

lol never said it was a bad idea, i think the whole external SATA concept is retarded

[ArchAngel.]

Lol, w/e man.
You just know I'm right.
There's nothing wrong with a slave drive.

[Fatal]

yea but how would you plug it in

[ArchAngel.]

Into the external SATA port...
Unless it's nothing like what I think it is.

[Fatal]

yea but where is the power going to come from? Magic land?

[ArchAngel.]

Lol...
There's this useful little thing.
It's amazing.
You should check it out.
They recently invented it...
Tis called a power strip.

[Fatal]

I dont know any computer part that can plug into that