Hard Drive, Optical Drive, Mobo Question

[jlauer]

Ok, here goes...

I have 3 hard drives and 2 optical drives...

I need to put them all into a new system.

If I go with the Gigabyte GA-8KNXP Mobo I will have no problems, it has support for 8 IDE Channels

If I go with the Abit IC7-Max3 Mobo I will have to pop in my old PROMISE ULTRA66 Controller.
If I do that I will be putting only the optical drives on the PROMISE Controller, the Hard Drives will all go on the ONBOARD IDE Controllers.


My question is this. If i use the PROMISE ULTRA66 with the IC7-Max3 how will it effect performance of the optical drives?
(The optical drives are a Plextor PX-708A 8X DVD+/-RW and a Pioneer DVD-120S.)


I do alot of CD and DVD Ripping and Burning.

 

[o1die]

I don't think you will notice any difference. All optical drives I've seen run at ata 33 speed, slower than the ata 66 rating of your promise controller card. Regardless of which mobo you choose, I would put the optical drives on separate ide ports for faster burning.

 

[JP5]

Also don't connect the HDDs to the promise card