High performance with 2 IDE connectors

[DBabo]

Hello,
I'm trying to find a good motherboard for the highperformance system wwith the following requirements :
1. Support more then 4 GB memory ( prefer up to 16/32 ).
2. 2 IDE connectors.
3. More than 4 SATA connectors
4. AMD, 64 bit proc.
5. PREFERENCE to mATX, but that's optional

Please advise.
thank you

 

[lopri]

Maybe this? http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16813136015

 

[lopri]

http://www.nvidia.com/page/nforce5_specs_amd.html

My guess is that you will need to find a board with 2 PATA connectors, and additional controller for more than 4 on-board SATA connectors. Good luck.

 

[SilverHair]

Here is another option http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16813135024

Upto 32gigs Ram DDR2 800
2 IDE ports supports (4) IDE Drives
6 SATA ports (2) are SATAII
RAID 0/1/0+1
Dual Lan 10/100 and 10/100/1000
6 USB 2.0

 

[rudder]

I went with SATA converters for my optical drives. I was frustrated because the IDE cable barely stretched to reach it on my last 3 motherboards. Works great, plus if you run out of motherboard SATA ports you can always get a PCI card. SATA converters are pretty cheap. Just though I would mention it since you will limit yourself in looking for a new mobo with 2 ide connectors.

 

[DBabo]

thank you guys.
Am i reading it right that if i go with nVidia SLI chipset it allows only one PATA connector ?

 

[DBabo]

Yeah - same problem.
It's a good idea you had - by doing this you also increased a performance on your IO subsystem.
But i want to have 2 cause they are hndled by 2 controllers and thus do not have a bus bottlenecking it.