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Buy-it PC · 04-25-2008, 06:37 AM

Hi Joshua-

First off, you would be best to replace the hdd to SATA when you can afford it, merely because the mobo in question is more of an advance piece of hardware, and wasn't really design to work with IDE. You can do it if you want, but in reality you would have to spend more money to put in a IDE controller card than it would be to spend the money on an SATA drive. Besides... using a SATA drive would run faster anyways.

As for the power supply connectors, if you plug the 20/24 pin into the ATX, make certain you plug in a 4 pin connector which is somewhere closer to the chipset or cpu socket that also needs to be plugged in...please send me a photo and I'll try to point it out for you.

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Buy-it PC Gold Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: La Mirada, CA Posts: 283	Hi Joshua- First off, you would be best to replace the hdd to SATA when you can afford it, merely because the mobo in question is more of an advance piece of hardware, and wasn't really design to work with IDE. You can do it if you want, but in reality you would have to spend more money to put in a IDE controller card than it would be to spend the money on an SATA drive. Besides... using a SATA drive would run faster anyways. As for the power supply connectors, if you plug the 20/24 pin into the ATX, make certain you plug in a 4 pin connector which is somewhere closer to the chipset or cpu socket that also needs to be plugged in...please send me a photo and I'll try to point it out for you. __________________ Core 2 Quad Processor Q9300 2.5GHz 1333MHz 6MB 4GB DDR2 320GB SATA HDD, 20X Lightscribe DVD-RW nVidia GeForce 9600GT 512MB 2DVI/HDCP PCI-Express Video Card Cooler Master CM Stacker 830 RC-830-KKN2-GP 550W PSU Windows Vista Got a question, Skype me at "Buyitpc". Last edited by Buy-it PC; 04-25-2008 at 06:38 AM. Reason: edit