i was working on building the 1,400 PC from pc gamers guide, but i bought a PATA hard Drive insted of a SATA.i didnt realize this would be a problem until i sawthat the mobo i was planning to get, the "EVGA nforce 680i SLI" only had one PATA port on it (for the optical drives). i dont want to spend money for a while on getting a sata hard drive. does anyone have a suggestion on another motherboard that is like this one, but has a second PATA port? (for HDD)
currently bought parts/planning to get parts:
Antec nine houdread (ATX standard form factor needed)
2 dual channel sticks of corsair 512mb each memory (DDR2)
1 cd-rm drive (hp)
1 dvd-rom drive
1 3'1/2 inch and 5'1/4 inch combo floppy drive (mobo should have one floppy port)
BFG tech 650W power supply (and power converter cable for one molex and one 4 pin to one 8 pin)
1 maxtor diamondmax 10 250gb PATA HDD
1 BFG tech geforce 8800 GTS 640MB video card
1 Intel core 2 duo e6300
ive noticed that the evga mobo that i was going to get had 3 PCIe x16 connectors, for what reason i dont know. i would only like 2, (for possible SLI) and the memory slots must be DDR2 with dual channel.
please tell me what you think!!
currently bought parts/planning to get parts:
Antec nine houdread (ATX standard form factor needed)
2 dual channel sticks of corsair 512mb each memory (DDR2)
1 cd-rm drive (hp)
1 dvd-rom drive
1 3'1/2 inch and 5'1/4 inch combo floppy drive (mobo should have one floppy port)
BFG tech 650W power supply (and power converter cable for one molex and one 4 pin to one 8 pin)
1 maxtor diamondmax 10 250gb PATA HDD
1 BFG tech geforce 8800 GTS 640MB video card
1 Intel core 2 duo e6300
ive noticed that the evga mobo that i was going to get had 3 PCIe x16 connectors, for what reason i dont know. i would only like 2, (for possible SLI) and the memory slots must be DDR2 with dual channel.
please tell me what you think!!