I am running Abit Kr7a with AMD 1700 CPU and 1 GB Memory. I use
photoshop and Adobe premier occasionally. Now I want to upgrade to
something better, but using my Hard Drives, TV Card, Lan Card and
Matrox Grafic Card from my old mobo. I like to stick to ATA though as
I can not afford two hard drives right now.
I do not want top of the range Mobo and CPU, which I can not afford.
Something cheaper but very stable combination.
Well,
I don't look in here much anymore, having switched over to a C2D my
self(currently most bang for the buck), but it sounds like you better check
out E-bay.
Your not going to find anything new that will work with all your old stuff.
In particular, your old memory and video card.
Most of the newer MoBos have only 1 IDE port.
Why would you need 2 hard drives anyway? RAID is not all it's hyped up to
be.
Amir
"bigdaddy" <NOspamMZBEG@notsoblueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Hi all
>
> I am running Abit Kr7a with AMD 1700 CPU and 1 GB Memory. I use
> photoshop and Adobe premier occasionally. Now I want to upgrade to
> something better, but using my Hard Drives, TV Card, Lan Card and
> Matrox Grafic Card from my old mobo. I like to stick to ATA though as
> I can not afford two hard drives right now.
>
> I do not want top of the range Mobo and CPU, which I can not afford.
> Something cheaper but very stable combination.
>
> Thanks for your suggestions.
"Amir Facade" <amirfacade@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Well,
> I don't look in here much anymore, having switched over to a C2D my
> self(currently most bang for the buck), but it sounds like you better
> check out E-bay.
> Your not going to find anything new that will work with all your old
> stuff.
> In particular, your old memory and video card.
> Most of the newer MoBos have only 1 IDE port.
> Why would you need 2 hard drives anyway? RAID is not all it's hyped up to
> be.
>
> Amir
>
>
>
> "bigdaddy" <NOspamMZBEG@notsoblueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:44n5d355dk0661ks3p0aa51vrcjcddei1l@4ax.com...
>> Hi all
>>
>> I am running Abit Kr7a with AMD 1700 CPU and 1 GB Memory. I use
>> photoshop and Adobe premier occasionally. Now I want to upgrade to
>> something better, but using my Hard Drives, TV Card, Lan Card and
>> Matrox Grafic Card from my old mobo. I like to stick to ATA though as
>> I can not afford two hard drives right now.
>>
>> I do not want top of the range Mobo and CPU, which I can not afford.
>> Something cheaper but very stable combination.
>>
>> Thanks for your suggestions.
>
>
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:33:48 -0400, "Amir Facade"
<amirfacade@gmail.com> wrote:
>Here you go:
>http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ASUS-P4S8X-X-A...QQcmdZViewItem
>
>
>"Amir Facade" <amirfacade@gmail.com> wrote in message
>news:d7idnXNyJsBF_k7bnZ2dnUVZ_ryqnZ2d@rcn.net.. .
>> Well,
>> I don't look in here much anymore, having switched over to a C2D my
>> self(currently most bang for the buck), but it sounds like you better
>> check out E-bay.
>> Your not going to find anything new that will work with all your old
>> stuff.
>> In particular, your old memory and video card.
>> Most of the newer MoBos have only 1 IDE port.
>> Why would you need 2 hard drives anyway? RAID is not all it's hyped up to
>> be.
>>
>> Amir
>>
>>
>>
>> "bigdaddy" <NOspamMZBEG@notsoblueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:44n5d355dk0661ks3p0aa51vrcjcddei1l@4ax.com...
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> I am running Abit Kr7a with AMD 1700 CPU and 1 GB Memory. I use
>>> photoshop and Adobe premier occasionally. Now I want to upgrade to
>>> something better, but using my Hard Drives, TV Card, Lan Card and
>>> Matrox Grafic Card from my old mobo. I like to stick to ATA though as
>>> I can not afford two hard drives right now.
>>>
>>> I do not want top of the range Mobo and CPU, which I can not afford.
>>> Something cheaper but very stable combination.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your suggestions.
>>
>>
>
Thanks all for your suggestions. The idea of using Matrox card etc.
was to minimize the expenses. But as some good folks suggested, it is
better to find a m/board with onboard Video. But I do not know which
is a better proposition, on board Video or separate Video Card. But I
still wants to retain my ATA Hard Disks because of the huge DATA I
have on them.
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:50:41 +0000, bigdaddy wrote:
> Thanks all for your suggestions. The idea of using Matrox card etc.
> was to minimize the expenses. But as some good folks suggested, it is
> better to find a m/board with onboard Video. But I do not know which
> is a better proposition, on board Video or separate Video Card. But I
> still wants to retain my ATA Hard Disks because of the huge DATA I
> have on them.
ATA controller cards are so cheap you can add one. I've got a PCI dual
raid controller board you can have for $10 and I'll pay shipping. Complete
with 2 80 wire cables and driver cd. If fact, this is it.
Wes Newell wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:50:41 +0000, bigdaddy wrote:
>
>> Thanks all for your suggestions. The idea of using Matrox card etc.
>> was to minimize the expenses. But as some good folks suggested, it
>> is better to find a m/board with onboard Video. But I do not know
>> which is a better proposition, on board Video or separate Video
>> Card. But I still wants to retain my ATA Hard Disks because of the
>> huge DATA I have on them.
>
> ATA controller cards are so cheap you can add one. I've got a PCI dual
> raid controller board you can have for $10 and I'll pay shipping.
> Complete with 2 80 wire cables and driver cd. If fact, this is it.
>
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16816124001
>
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That's really cool of you. I'd grab that in a heat beat if I needed an ATA
card....
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