SATA and the Asus A7N8X(regular)

[Satchels]

Ive looked all over the place for this and I would like to know if its possible to run a SATA harddrive on a motherboard(A7N8X) that uses IDE. Ive seen converters for going from a IDE drive to a SATA motherboard but not vice-versa.

If its possible will have the performance gain that you receive from SAYA drives, thanks. BTW, im not willing to replace my mobo cause it works fine its just time to replace my 5 year old drive since I think its bottlenecking my machine performance.

Thanks for the help

 

[mechBgon]

SATA doesn't improve the drive's performance. The fastest SATA drive on the market isn't really an SATA drive, it's a standard PATA drive with a bridge chip stuck onto it. So you aren't missing as much as the hoopla might lead you to believe. 😉

To use a SATA drive on your A7N8X, get a PCI Serial ATA card and plug it into PCI slot #4 (doesn't share its chipset IRQ). Welcome to the Forums, hope that helped 🙂

 

[Satchels]

hmmm interesting. thanks for the info

 

[Shagger]

I currently am booting from an IDE drive with a SATA converter and have two other IDE drives on the primary channel on an A7N8X-DX. Works like a champ.