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i'm building a coputer with a a7m266 mobo. I'm not sure how to configure the drives: what i was going to do is:

Primary IDE master: Hard drive
primary ide slave: none

secondary ide master: dvd/cd-rom
secondary ide slave: cd/re-writable

floppy , wherever i forget,

does this sound like the right configuration for these components?

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So far, so good. But where is your question about CPU? :)

Leo

P.S. There is an interesting alternative if you choose to go with a RAID 0 configuration. Instead of a single hard drive with X GB, you can get two identical hard drives with X/2 GB. You get the same storage, and twice as high data transfer rate as per single drive. The price to pay is that should even one drive fail out of the two, you lose all data. Also, you'd need a mobo with a RAID controller. But many modern mobos have one, anyway.

Leo

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