Conroe compatible Motherboard with dual channel UATA support & SATA

[mrGoran]

Hi

Im building a new system around a E6700 CPU but want to retain my
existing 2 hard drives and 2 optical drives. I will make the switch to
SATA when they bring out the new hard drives with flash memory onboard
later this year. Meantime I want a board that will support my four IDE
devices. Ideally though one that is not too old and won't be hampererd
performance wise in the future as i gradually upgrade my storage
drives. Maybe there are some with the more up to date P965/975 or
Nvidia 680 chipset?

I presume there are no other ways around this eg SATA to IDE
converters?

Anyone know if such a board exists? I've only seen boards with 1 UATA
channel and SATA channels.

Thanks

Steve

 

[tommylux]

Hi there, was just checking the prices for the E6700, seems to be £130
more expensive than the E6600 (dabs.com) which only gives you 0.27
clock speed faster. The E6600 has the same 1066 FSB and 4mb cache. If
you haven't already bought this processor, Its worth thinking about the
E6600 for only £200 instead of £330.

Never heard of a SATA to IDE Connection. But I thought most boards have
IDE connections and SATA connections.

I am thinking of getting a SATA HDD but which one is better: SATA II or
SATA 300, OR SATA 3 Gb/s?

All the best

Tom

 

[Paul]

Hi

Im building a new system around a E6700 CPU but want to retain my
existing 2 hard drives and 2 optical drives. I will make the switch to
SATA when they bring out the new hard drives with flash memory onboard
later this year. Meantime I want a board that will support my four IDE
devices. Ideally though one that is not too old and won't be hampererd
performance wise in the future as i gradually upgrade my storage
drives. Maybe there are some with the more up to date P965/975 or
Nvidia 680 chipset?

I presume there are no other ways around this eg SATA to IDE
converters?

Anyone know if such a board exists? I've only seen boards with 1 UATA
channel and SATA channels.

Thanks

Steve

You could start here. 650i has four PATA.

http://www.nvidia.com/page/nforce_600i_tech_specs.html

The only example I see is P5N-E SLI at $140. I'm sure there
are more 650i boards, hiding somewhere.

http://images10.newegg.com/NeweggImage/productimage/13-131-142-04.JPG

Paul

 

[mrGoran]

Thanks Paul that's great! Have a good weekend now.

 

[Rod Speed]

Hi

Im building a new system around a E6700 CPU but want to retain my
existing 2 hard drives and 2 optical drives. I will make the switch to
SATA when they bring out the new hard drives with flash memory onboard
later this year. Meantime I want a board that will support my four IDE
devices. Ideally though one that is not too old and won't be hampererd
performance wise in the future as i gradually upgrade my storage
drives. Maybe there are some with the more up to date P965/975 or
Nvidia 680 chipset?

I presume there are no other ways around this eg SATA to IDE converters?

Yes, you can get converters, and you can get PCI IDE cards too.
Either would probably be viable since you plan to change hard drives soon.

Anyone know if such a board exists?

Yes, but they arent that common and that significantly limits your choices.

I've only seen boards with 1 UATA channel and SATA channels.

Yeah, that config is certainly the most common.

 

[DaveW]

You are indeed very limited in choice of boards, as you noted. Current
boards for your CPU only offer one IDE socket.

 

[Stuart Rogers]

You are indeed very limited in choice of boards, as you noted. Current
boards for your CPU only offer one IDE socket.

I'm running an Asrock 775DUAL-VSTA with an E6400 right now with 2xIDE and
2xSATA as well as both AGP and PCI-E, also you can have either DDR or DDRII
RAM.

Stuart

 

[mrGoran]

Thanks Dave, that confirmed what i suspected...

Its going to be an expensive upgrade if I have to replace both hard
disks as well. Already looking at CPU & mobo obviously, RAM (ddr1 no
good any more), graphics card (AGP no good) not to redundantant pci
cards if not any/enough on new board.

 

[tommylux]

I have faced the same problem last week and simply brought a PCI IDE
Controller. Works fine without any reduction in speed. I have two
optical drives from the main board IDE and two HDD from the IDE
Controller. Cheaper than buying a converter: Converters were £20 while
the PCI Card was only £10

Tom