i know alot about computers and building them but i am not sure f this harddrive ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822145082 ) will work with this mother board ( http://www.newegg.com/product/Product.asp?item=N82E16813128262 ) will they work together?
2006-07-22 11:28:54 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
hmmm ok i think i will try it then if someone thinks this will not work plz post and i will consider your thoughts
2006-07-22 11:34:58 · update #1
i read further and i found i have to jumper the hard drive down to 1.5... i have heard and used jumpers but have never seen a jumper that does that anyone know?
2006-07-22 11:36:57 · update #2
ok thanks for the help
2006-07-22 11:37:40 · update #3
to the super techguy you said P4 i am guessing you mean pentuim 4... this is an athlon board
2006-07-22 11:39:36 · update #4
Yeah they will work. But you will experience a 1.5GB/s bottleneck. Even so, you won't notice it unless you are running RAID.
One of the reveiwers nailed it:
"Pros: SATA speed and simplicity of connection; affordable; next generation speed and performance....
Cons: Only new motherboards and computers use the 3.0gb SATA data speed - you may need to jumper this drive to go back to 1.5gb speed.... More »
Other Thoughts: SATA is a great idea, long time in coming. Unfortunately, the initial technology (1.5gb/sec) is a bit of an albatross around the neck of next generation drives like this. They have to be jumpered (ugh) to communicate at the "legacy" speeds. SATA also is a little less standard outside of Windows and some OS X systems."
2006-07-22 11:35:17 · answer #1 · answered by Austin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the hdd is a SATA 2 300 the motherboard is a SATA 1 150 it is backwards compatible so it will work, but a better choice for a hdd is a western digital raptor twice as fast check the specs
2006-07-22 19:51:38 · answer #2 · answered by johnman142 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
being that the system board has SATA connectors (the red ones), and is a P4, and the drive is only 80GB, I would say yes.
Make sure you get the SATA connectors either with the drive or the motherboard.
2006-07-22 18:37:06 · answer #3 · answered by SuperTech 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes they will work togather easily as long as you have the install disk for the drive & install it before you try to install a os
2006-07-22 18:37:04 · answer #4 · answered by iceafire 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes they both have a sata thingymagigy
2006-07-22 18:30:59 · answer #5 · answered by VzjrZ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Buy it, try it, if not return it.
2006-07-22 18:30:19 · answer #6 · answered by I77 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋