Albatron PX865PE Pro Compatibilities

I am not so much of a hardware guy and terms like SATA II and SATA,
AGP and AGPx8, DDR and DDRII confuse me a lot. However i studied as
much as i could and decided to buy the hardware below.
I have an Albatron PX865PE Pro and I would like to know if
1) GeForce 7600GS AGP
2) 4x1 GB DDR 400 TwinMos
3) HDD Western DIgital 4000KD SATA 7200 16mb
are supported by the above motherboard and of course if they are a
good choice.
The system is going to be used for Photoshop work

any help appreciated

<milopeer@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I am not so much of a hardware guy and terms like SATA II and SATA,
> AGP and AGPx8, DDR and DDRII confuse me a lot. However i studied as
> much as i could and decided to buy the hardware below.
> I have an Albatron PX865PE Pro and I would like to know if
> 1) GeForce 7600GS AGP
> 2) 4x1 GB DDR 400 TwinMos
> 3) HDD Western DIgital 4000KD SATA 7200 16mb
> are supported by the above motherboard and of course if they are a
> good choice.
> The system is going to be used for Photoshop work
>
> any help appreciated
>

1. Yes
2. Yes - of course you'll only get 3gb showing in XP.
http://blogs.msdn.com/hiltonl/archiv...m-problem.aspx
3. I think it only has SATA 1.5, not SATA 3.0
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Cari (MS-MVP)
Windows Technologies - Printing & Imaging
http://www.coribright.com/windows

milopeer@gmail.com wrote:
> I am not so much of a hardware guy and terms like SATA II and SATA,
> AGP and AGPx8, DDR and DDRII confuse me a lot. However i studied as
> much as i could and decided to buy the hardware below.
> I have an Albatron PX865PE Pro and I would like to know if
> 1) GeForce 7600GS AGP
> 2) 4x1 GB DDR 400 TwinMos
> 3) HDD Western DIgital 4000KD SATA 7200 16mb
> are supported by the above motherboard and of course if they are a
> good choice.
> The system is going to be used for Photoshop work
>
> any help appreciated
>

SATA is supposed to be backward compatible. In the worst case, SATA
drives have a jumper, to force operation of the cable to 1.5Gbit/sec.
So try it, and if it doesn't work, check out the jumper option.
There should always be a way to use the drive.

http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc....p?p_faqid=1337

Due to address space limitations, the entire 4GB of memory will
not be visible at the OS level. But you will get whatever advantage
there is, from dual channel operation.

The 7600GS should be plenty good enough for Photoshop.

Paul

That system could only recognize 3.2 GB's of the 4 GB of RAM you intend to
install if you use regular XP or Vista.

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DaveW
<milopeer@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1184183908.409040.246220@d55g2000hsg.googlegr oups.com...
>I am not so much of a hardware guy and terms like SATA II and SATA,
> AGP and AGPx8, DDR and DDRII confuse me a lot. However i studied as
> much as i could and decided to buy the hardware below.
> I have an Albatron PX865PE Pro and I would like to know if
> 1) GeForce 7600GS AGP
> 2) 4x1 GB DDR 400 TwinMos
> 3) HDD Western DIgital 4000KD SATA 7200 16mb
> are supported by the above motherboard and of course if they are a
> good choice.
> The system is going to be used for Photoshop work
>
> any help appreciated
>