Worlds First Serial ATA Board..

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  1. scopEDog

    scopEDog Minimodder

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  2. George

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    nice!

    the problem is, just like SCSI, these new drives will cost a fortune!

    .icecube
     
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  3. Phire

    Phire Performance-PCs.com

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    droool....serial ata....droool......
     
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  4. eddie_dane

    eddie_dane Used to mod pc's now I mod houses

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    I am just pleased that the large cables are history! :D
     
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  5. IsaacSibson

    IsaacSibson Banned

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    Ok, forgive my obvious stupidity, but I don't see any S-ATA connectors on that board in the pic....
     
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  6. eddie_dane

    eddie_dane Used to mod pc's now I mod houses

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    I thought the same thing... but was afraid to say because the only working image of the connector was from an article on heatseekerz.net...

    [​IMG]

    and the one on here is a PCI card controller, not on-board...
     
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  7. eddie_dane

    eddie_dane Used to mod pc's now I mod houses

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    perhaps they are going to use that white connector above the RAM sockets as a daughter board like on this mobo:

    [​IMG]

    just a guess
     
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  8. Digitalblueshift

    Digitalblueshift What's a Dremel?

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    look beneath the ATX power connector.
     
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  9. banished

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    yeah, I believe that's them, but weird place to put them.
     
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  10. kanuslupus

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    I thought the exact same thing.
    From what I've read, the drives will be cheaper than SCSI, but more than IDE.
    Considering how cheap IDE are, I'm not overly worried. Sure, it may mean
    buying 1 at a time, but oh well. IDE begone! :hehe:

    I am looking forward to this sooo much. I've been waiting for Serial ATA to
    upgrade my system from a Slot A to a dual MP something :D
     
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  11. banished

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    How about a dual XP system? Or is your system mainly for business?
     
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  12. kanuslupus

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    I was under the impression running XP's in a dual system was not guaranteed to work.
    Also, I'm likely to wait until the Opteron's get some reviews.
     
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  13. scopEDog

    scopEDog Minimodder

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    Using older XP's will work under dual (although some boards dont support it, and AMD will not give you tech support for it) but the newer will not work. You'll have to use MP's
     
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  14. felix the cat

    felix the cat Spaceman Spiff

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    lets just wait for the serial hdds to come out and have a look then...
     
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  15. scoob8000

    scoob8000 Wheres my plasma cutter?

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  16. BorgBob

    BorgBob What's a Dremel?

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    I love the serial ATA technology. It'll really clean up the cabling mess. Hopefully we'll be able to buy CDROMs with it too. If MSFT would just fix XP so you don't have to use a floppy for your RAID drivers during install, we could get rid of that buggy whip and truly be in the new Millenium.
     
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  17. Digitalblueshift

    Digitalblueshift What's a Dremel?

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    they might be thinking that the first people likley to buy a serial ATA board are the overclocers and techno-enthusiasts that have full towers and like to put the (ovbiously) hotter drives( because they will have to spin faster and generate more heat to keep up withthe transfer rates) in the top of their case above the PSU, in that way the Cables can be routed beside the infernal ATX power connector minimizing air resistance and tyding cable mess. Perhaps not, but who the hexk will turn down a board that is as backwards compatible as that one, I mean it even has legacy ports...
     
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