Question about upgrade

fornicatarachnid · Dec 15, 2002, 07:45 PM

I am planning to do a major upgrade in the near future

I've already picked the motherboard I want to base it on. My

question concerns serial ATA. For a few more £'s I can get this

board with the serial ATA option. I know the drives aren't

available yet ( any ideas when they will be ? ) but I'm wondering

whether there will be any advantage in waiting for the drives to

come out or whether to stick with an ATA133 drive ?

Krychek57 · Dec 15, 2002, 07:53 PM

The question boils down to wether or not you want to upgrade AGAIN when ATA is no longer avaliable. However they are planning on S-ATA2 and 3 so you might want to wait for the 2nd generation. Your call.

DarkFoss · Dec 15, 2002, 08:10 PM

Here's an article you might find interesting about sata

http://www6.tomshardware.com/storage...812/index.html

and here's a forum search about corsair memory and the new nforce2 chipsets
might save you some trouble when pairing mem to your new mobo

http://www.houseofhelp.com/v2/search...der=descending

Nice mobo btw but I'm going to hold off on one until a couple revisions and bios's have been out

fornicatarachnid · Dec 16, 2002, 12:10 PM

Thanks for the links. It seems like the only advantage, for now at

least, seems to be the smaller cables/connectors.

I'm

gonna stick with good old IDE for now. You can already get nice,

neat round cables instead of the old, flat ribbons

merry · Dec 17, 2002, 07:02 AM

You remind me of the time I bought a mobo with USB support, two years ago - that mobo still works in my nieces comp, but I still don't have any USB devices.

fornicatarachnid · Dec 17, 2002, 08:14 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by merry
You remind me of the time I bought a mobo with USB support, two years ago - that mobo still works in my nieces comp, but I still don't have any USB devices.

When I bought my present board, an ASUS A7V133, it came with

2 USB prts as standard and an extra little card to upgrade in the

furture to 4 ports, which I thought I would never use. I ended up

fitting the extra card. Ive got my printer, scanner, mouse and

camera all with USB connections

~~TIGER~~ · Jan 2, 2003, 05:46 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by fornicatarachnid
I am planning to do a major upgrade in the near future

I've already picked the motherboard I want to base it on. My

question concerns serial ATA. For a few more £'s I can get this

board with the serial ATA option. I know the drives aren't

available yet ( any ideas when they will be ? ) but I'm wondering

whether there will be any advantage in waiting for the drives to

come out or whether to stick with an ATA133 drive ?

They will b out in Feb m8

ToshiroOC · Jan 2, 2003, 05:51 PM

I would say get the motherboard with the Serial ATA unless you are expecting to upgrade your motherboard again before Serial ATA drives come out, a few months from now (or maybe Feb, I have been hearing later though...), and if you are going to get a hard drive, wait until Serial ATA drives have been benched unless you are in a hurry...