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      4th Nov 2007
ive bought a new motherboard and a new processor for my computer and i want to know if it is possible to use my old hard drive with the new mother board since it is a completely different motherboard

also what is the best graphics card i can get for £150
 
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      4th Nov 2007
You should be able to as most motherboards have connection for both IDE and SATA HD's - but one thing you will not be able to do is use the old installed OS, you will need to re-install it.

If you let us know what HD and new motherboard we can confirm it for you.


I'll leave it to the gamers here to give a recommendation for a GPU around £150.

 
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RE the graphics card, if you can strech to it get an 8800GT 512mb, they are cracking cards for the money, not far off the performance of the £300+ GTX.

 


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RE the graphics card, if you can strech to it get an 8800GT 512mb, they are cracking cards for the money, not far off the performance of the £300+ GTX.
how much is a 8800 gt?

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You should be able to as most motherboards have connection for both IDE and SATA HD's - but one thing you will not be able to do is use the old installed OS, you will need to re-install it.

If you let us know what HD and new motherboard we can confirm it for you.


I'll leave it to the gamers here to give a recommendation for a GPU around £150.
also the mother board ive bought is a ASUS P5N32-E SLi NVIDIA nForce 680i
and the hard drive i have in my computer is a seagate barracuda 200gb so can i use this hard drive with that motherboard
 
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Yes, the motherboard has 1 x IDE connector and 6 x SATA so it can use either.

Just be aware though, if you want to connect 2 x IDE DVD/CD players and an IDE HD you will need another IDE slot.

 
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Yes, the motherboard has 1 x IDE connector and 6 x SATA so it can use either.

Just be aware though, if you want to connect 2 x IDE DVD/CD players and an IDE HD you will need another IDE slot.
i have a dvd/cd writer only so would i need another IDE connector?

ok thanks for the info also ive been reading that i might need to reinstall windowx on my harddrive since it is a new mother board is that true?

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You can install the DVD writer and HD on the same IDE connector using a master/slave IDE ribbon - make sure you have the HD set as master and the DVD as slave.


Yes you will need to re-install the OS - see my first reply

 
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ok thanks for your help everyone now i know what needs to be done
 
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You'll find this a very useful read ,

http://www.arcticsilver.com/ins_rout...2intelas5.html


 

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