965 boards and ide

[mickeddie]

How do I know which of the 965 chipset motherboard manufacturers have added IDE support? I am re-thinking the Asus P5B but only if I can use my IDE optical drives.

What are your thoughts on the P5B vs. the P5W DH?

 

[The_OGS]

The new Intel P965 is a bit of a shock if you're old-fashioned like I am, heheh, having only one IDE add-on controller requiring 'F6' for drivers.
Even then it will not install the OS on the IDE drive... it's SATA or nothing.
I had already purchased my Plextor SATA DVD and was (stupidly) trying to mount a HD on the one IDE. It doesn't work...
I assume, if the proper boot order is selected, IDE optical drive will still start OS installation okay - but this is only speculation on my part, LoL.
But that is about all the single default JMicron IDE is good for,
Regards

 

[mickeddie]

It'll have IDE if an extra IDE controller is added for 965P, mostly JMicron JMB363 being used nowdays.

Both P5B vanilla and P5B Deluxe have it as do Gigabyte 965P-DS3/DS4.

So I'd be good to go with the P5B Deluxe. After reading the latest on it from anandtech I am deciding on the P5B or the P5W. I don't care about dual GPU's and will overclock my e6600 to about 3.2ghz. I know the P5W is very solid for overclocking and a very stable board.

What are your thoughts between the P5W and the P5B? What is the advantage of the 965 chipset, if any, compared to the 975x?