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Need help building my first computer!

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kveld3

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I am trying to build my own computer, using mostly new parts (mobo, graphics card, processor, memory) but using some parts from my old computer that are still in great working condition (Audigy 2 soundcard, one 120 GB hd and a 200 GB hd) but I have a problem. Most mother boards out there today have SATA connections and only one ATA100 connection on the mother board. Because I want to keep my old harddrives, I was wondering. If I plug my ATA133 hard drives into the ATA100 connection on the motherboard, what will happen? Will the speed decrease, or will the ATA133 harddrives be unable to communicate with the ATA100 connection on the motherboard? Thank you in advance for any help.
 
Theoretically it'll perform worse but realistically no HD's max out the ATA (unless you're using like ATA66 or something ancient) bus much less SATA. If all parts are working without defects there should be no problem using an ATA133 HD on a ATA100 bus and vice versa.

 
I had a ATA133 HD on my ATA100 IDE Channel in an older motherboard for many many months with no problems whatsoever. You'll be fine, but it will only perform at ATA100 speed.

SATA vs IDE doesn't seem to really offer any benefits from *my* experiences unless you start getting into RAID. RPM's seem to make all the difference from what I've found....

-B
 
ATA drives are backward compatabile. No problem with ATA133 on ATA100. And no loss of speed either because ATA133 was more of a one-upmanship marketing ploy than anything else. All of the PATA drives max out at less than the ATA100 spec.

You mention mbs with only one ATA connector on them. You will need 2 if you want to hook up optical drives too. Other option would be to add an ATA controler card to a PCI slot.
 
Motherboard with only one ATA100 port? Must be an Intel board. 😛 If you haven't purchased a board/CPU yet, consider alternatives.
 
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