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07-28-2002, 12:43 AM
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Do modern mobo's support ATA 133
Do most modern mobo's support ATA 133 HDDs or will I have to buy the card?
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07-28-2002, 12:47 AM
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The new motherboards have ATA 133. The ones that are over about 2 months old dont have this feature. You should need to buy a card unless the board is older then that. Are you looking at a board specifically? When you go to research or buy a board, it will tell you if it has ATA 133 support. If your unsure, just post it here.
HTH  By the way, you double posted your RAM question. Just so you know.
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07-28-2002, 12:48 AM
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Yes, many new boards with newer chipsets (KT333 for example) do support ATA/133, but not all new boards have it. Also, currently only Maxtor has ATA/133 drives.
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07-28-2002, 12:50 AM
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Don't let that be one of your requirements for purchasing a board. The speed difference between ATA100 and ATA133 is not enough to see. The ATA133 is more of a marketing tool than a performance increase.
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07-28-2002, 12:52 AM
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MW is right, ATA/100 vs. 133 is a small difference, and SerialATA is just around the corner anyway so ATA/133 won't last too long as a standard.
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07-28-2002, 01:30 AM
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Yes and to add to te debate. The best performing IDE Hard drive on the market today is the Western Digital 8MB buffer drives and they are only ATA100.
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07-28-2002, 05:11 AM
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Maxtor is the only manufacturer that makes ATA133 hard drives anyway (but then, I think with only 5400 rpm over 80 GB).
Intel chipsets don't support UDMA133. Most manufacturers won't use UDMA133, they want to go from UDMA 100 straight to serial ATA. RJ
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07-28-2002, 01:13 PM
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Aside from that Tomshardware article about the nForce, I have heard little about doing away with parallel operations and going to Serial ATA. When can we expect boards and drives that use it? From the tone of the article, it would seem to be closing in.
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07-29-2002, 11:33 AM
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I have seen one ad banner for Serial ATA and there was a DFI motherboard with a SIS chipset that had Serial ATA ports on the motherboard on toms hardware.
http://www17.tomshardware.com/mainbo...sis648-04.html I expect a lot of Serial ATA Motherboards to be out in the next 2 months or so. That is when you should see some drives coming out. |
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07-29-2002, 11:36 AM
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The smaller plugs and the narrower cables are a big incentive to go with Serial ATA. Makes the inside of the case look neater.
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