If you were to rate motherboards....

[VanShania]

your jokes suck just as bad as your advice

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Sapphire X1600 Pro 512mb AGP
MSI Theater 550Pro TV Tuner
Thermaltake LanFire Midtower(4X80mm fans),Antec 550 Watt PSU
Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939 nForce3, A64 3500+, Stock Cooler IdleTemp 28 C
2 Gb Dual Channel PC3200 OCZ Platinum 2-3-2-5 CL2.5
Viewsonic A91f 19in Moniter
2XSATA WD 320gb Raid Edition, PATA WD 120Gb HD
Pioneer 110D Dual Layer burner
Logitech MX 310 Optical Mouse
Microsoft Sidewinder Precision 2 Joystick
Microsoft ergonomic keyboard
Cheap computer speakers with Sennheiser HD 477 Headphones

3DMark05Free-Overall-3134 1024X768, 4XAA/8XAF 6.4Drivers
Cpu - 4405
3Dmark2001 - 8702 4XAA/8XAF 1280X1024

Games I'm Playing- IL-2 Sturmovick Series
Empire Earth 2, Need For Speed: Underground 2,
Civ IV, Warhammer 40,000 Gold

 

[VanShania]

First off mr brighty pants, the problem with faster write speeds has more to
do with data being corrupted or inaccurate as speed increases. If you would
actually read the posts you put up instead of reading headlines and stealing
other peoples ideas, you wouldn't have wasted everyone's time here. Your
precious plextor that you raved about had more errors than the PX-716A
because of its 18X speed. Get a grip man.

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Sapphire X1600 Pro 512mb AGP
MSI Theater 550Pro TV Tuner
Thermaltake LanFire Midtower(4X80mm fans),Antec 550 Watt PSU
Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939 nForce3, A64 3500+, Stock Cooler IdleTemp 28 C
2 Gb Dual Channel PC3200 OCZ Platinum 2-3-2-5 CL2.5
Viewsonic A91f 19in Moniter
2XSATA WD 320gb Raid Edition, PATA WD 120Gb HD
Pioneer 110D Dual Layer burner
Logitech MX 310 Optical Mouse
Microsoft Sidewinder Precision 2 Joystick
Microsoft ergonomic keyboard
Cheap computer speakers with Sennheiser HD 477 Headphones

3DMark05Free-Overall-3134 1024X768, 4XAA/8XAF 6.4Drivers
Cpu - 4405
3Dmark2001 - 8702 4XAA/8XAF 1280X1024

Games I'm Playing- IL-2 Sturmovick Series
Empire Earth 2, Need For Speed: Underground 2,
Civ IV, Warhammer 40,000 Gold

 

[Merrill P. L. Worthington]

First off mr brighty pants, the problem with faster write speeds has more to
do with data being corrupted or inaccurate as speed increases. If you would
actually read the posts you put up instead of reading headlines and stealing
other peoples ideas, you wouldn't have wasted everyone's time here. Your
precious plextor that you raved about had more errors than the PX-716A
because of its 18X speed. Get a grip man.

I don't have a Plextor. Don't know where you came up with THAT one.
But I think some common sense and study of materials engineering might
help you understand the problem.

I do suggest that you seek some help with that drug problem. It seems
to have altered you sense of reality.

 

[Brownz \(mobile\)]

But that doesn't change the physics of spinning a DVD or CD. To get
better performance, the disk must spin faster. If the disk is forced
to spin faster than it is now, it will fly apart.

So how do you propose to improve performance with that barrier?

Out of interest, we've done a fair bit of research into high performance
optical devices, and what happens when you reach the limits of the media.

http://www.rm.com/safety/Downloads/StructuralIntegrity.pdf

 

[Alex Moreau]

What advantage would SATA optical drives provide other than easier
cabling? (once its cabled-in, its not a problem, right?)

That's Exactly why I would buy one. The cabling. Of course, the price would
have to be within reason, but I'd be willing to pay extra for the cabling
alone.

Alex

 

[Bill]

That's Exactly why I would buy one. The cabling. Of course, the price would
have to be within reason, but I'd be willing to pay extra for the cabling
alone.

Alex

The cheapest IDE DL DVD burner at Newegg is around $36.00 USD. The cheapest
SATA DVD burner is around $105.00 USD. <cough> That bleeding edge gets
expensive. <cough> I'd put that $70.00 towards more ram or a faster cpu.
But that's just me.

Bill

 

[Alex Moreau]

The cheapest IDE DL DVD burner at Newegg is around $36.00 USD. The
cheapest
SATA DVD burner is around $105.00 USD. <cough> That bleeding edge gets
expensive. <cough> I'd put that $70.00 towards more ram or a faster cpu.
But that's just me.

Bill

The unspoken alternative is to wait until SATA optical pricing becomes
reasonable, which I can easily do.

Alex

 

[Merrill P. L. Worthington]

The unspoken alternative is to wait until SATA optical pricing becomes
reasonable, which I can easily do.

Alex

And my question remains: Whawt advantages do SATA optical drives have
over IDE (OK, let's stick to round IDE cables)?