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Just a few more Parts

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well, after my dad saw my adapter that has SATA and IDE ports on it, He had more order another one of them. BTW, it works GREAT. so I recommend it (supports booting of OS X under macs! (as long at the mac boots USB)

USB 2.0 to SATA / IDE HD HDD Adapter Converter Cable

Anyways, It's a good buy and I love it. Now if I could only get that 5v+12v Molex Power brick to come... (Using the Power from an ATA USB Case)

Also, I bought this:

PC CHIPS M848A (V5.0) A (462) SiS 746FX ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail

I have a bunch of parts kicking around and thought with a bit of money, I could turn a profit by selling this on Craig's List or to a friend :p

I also got sick of the onboard SATA messing me over with the 1TB Drives (the reason I did the experiment with the TB Drive)

So I bought one of these:

Rosewill RC-201 PCI SATA x2 Silicon Image, RAID 0/1/JBOD

Anyways, It feels like a good score for today. Anyways, I will let you know!

 
and apparently newegg is the only place to get computer parts, huh?
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I prefer to use them over eBay or any other site. I just feel more comfortable with them than say... TigerDirect.

 
At the shop I worked at about 9 years ago we used a lot of the PC Chips motherboards. They were fairly good boards, and we had very few problems with them.

Of course who know what that means now, a lot can change in 9 years.

 
I just bought one of those SATA/IDE 3.5-2.5" to USB adapters also. Mine as about $19 at the TigerDirect outlet store, but it has a power supply for the drives as well. Works great so far.

As for the PCChips board, I have bought a few of that model from TigerDirect. I have never been able to make it work properly. It never wants to correct detect the bus speed.

Computer Geeks has a LOT of refurbished Socket A boards and a few new ones too.

This new generic one works very well for about $43:

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=SIS741GX-MN&cat=MBB

Their shipping is higher than NewEgg but depending on what you are looking for it is a good alternative for them.

While I haven't tried the Silicon Image SATA card, I have tried a PATA one and haven't had any issues with it.

 
I had two previous PC Chips boards, on two different systems. Both are recent (2004+) and works great. One has a Via (no problems) and the other had a nForce Chipset (one of the very few that did) and the first was AMD Socket-A and the other was a Pentium IV system. Sadly, the Pentium IV burnt out before the board (CPU esploded :p ) and the board was used in another project. Two different friends have the machines (one has the P IV with a Celeron 1.6Ghz, the Other with my Old AMD Sempron w/ Via Chipset)

As far as the RAID Card, I have had a PATA SiS RAID card, works great, but it was during the windows 2k Pro time so it doesn't like to work with windows if you used it for boot (KP's Win XP once it gets the initial install files on it) and was only good for extra storage. T'was ok, but It's sitting back in it's box until I need it again.

So, i will report on how good the stuff works!!!

 
is new generic one works very well for about $43:
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=SIS741GX-MN&cat=MBB
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That's basically the same thing as the PC Chips board. Except the PC Chips runs at 400MHz/333/266FSB settings. I would rather have the PC Chips board, because it appears on other forum boards, I can overclock the hell out of the board and whatnot, as well as the RAM. Which I will probably do (and I have the stuff for proper cooling of the chipset and CPU, as well as the video card I am putting in there (Radeon 9550 AGP 8x)

Sadly, that board is like waaaayyy superior to the PC Chips on my old system. Interestingly, I got a friend that will be looking at getting one of those boards should it work out good for me. So, time shall tell :)

 
I have actually used the one I linked to in a customer's Emachine that the power supply went out on. It works fine with the CD, but the most you will hear about it online is 'I need drivers for xxxxx'.

I'm sure drivers for the individual parts could be located at the respective manufacturer's sites.

Geeks had a refurbished JetWay KT266A board with RAID for $19 plus shipping. It appears to be the same as some TigerDirect MachSpeed boards that I have seen and I'm guessing the refurb part was the caps. It's really tempting to get it since I have a few Socket A chips, but I would also have to get DDR memory for it and DDR2 is much cheaper ($30 for 1GB vs. $60).

Currently I'm stuck with the P3-733 machine which decided to bork itself last night. On a positive note it now has a 20GB notebook hard disk that used to be in my Thinkpad. It's not as fast as a desktop drive, but it's loads quieter than what was in there.

 
Well, I got the card. Works great! pretty much drop-in and configure through a Java Plugin. I created it in less than 2 minutes (i didn't copy. was going to wipe the drives anyways)

 
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