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Compatibility Issues
I have the following question I have a WD IDE hard drive listed below and want to upgrade my drive as I am having issues with my computer I think I have a virus easiest way to fix is reinstall windows what I want to do is get a new hard drive Western Digital Caviar Black WD6401AALS 640GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5"
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136319 what I need to know is can I use an IDE drive as secondary and the SATA as primary with this mother board? 2nd part of the question is I had gotten new memory the upgrade to the 2 1xgb sticks I still have the 2 512mb sticks and can I put them in also to give me a total of 3 gigs of ram or will there be a compatiblity issue? My main use of my computer is playing wow and getting on the internet and right now I am constantly rebooting my computer as my speed is severly limited except after I reboot.. Any help is greatly appreciated.. thxs MB ASUS A8N-E 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16813131530 Memory CORSAIR 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16820145440 Current memory CORSAIR 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820145579 Processor AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 2.2GHz 1MB L2 Cache Socket 939 Single-Core http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16819103539 Power Supply Thermaltake TR2 W0090RU 470W ATX 12V 2.0 http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16817153027 Video Card PNY VCG96512GXEB GeForce 9600 GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814133239 Hard drive Western Digital Caviar Special Edition WD2500JB 250GB Ultra ATA/100 7200RPM Hard Drive w/8MB Buffer and of course dvd rom plextor dvd burner keyboard trackball and monitor |
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Yes to both questions.
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