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I will be building my first computer using 2 optical drives (a DVD burner and a regular DVD drive - both SATA).
If anyone has time, I could use some assistance with 2 newbie-ish questions:
1. Since I'll likely be purchasing OEM rather than Retail, what cable do I need to buy to connect the 2 optical drives to my sound card? Will the sound card (a higher end creative labs card) have 2 connections, one for each of my dvd drives? Or do I need some sort of split cable that connects to both dvd drives and then to the sound card?
2. Is there such a thing as today's SATA drives having issue with the Vista 64-bit OS (which I will be using)? Or can I assume that pretty much any SATA optical drive that I purchase will work fine with Vista?
[EDIT - I found the answer to question 2 in a previous thread...it appears that there's no compatibility issues with the hardware, but there could be with the software. So is it safe to say that NERO 7 is good to use with 64-bit Vista?]
-J.
If anyone has time, I could use some assistance with 2 newbie-ish questions:
1. Since I'll likely be purchasing OEM rather than Retail, what cable do I need to buy to connect the 2 optical drives to my sound card? Will the sound card (a higher end creative labs card) have 2 connections, one for each of my dvd drives? Or do I need some sort of split cable that connects to both dvd drives and then to the sound card?
2. Is there such a thing as today's SATA drives having issue with the Vista 64-bit OS (which I will be using)? Or can I assume that pretty much any SATA optical drive that I purchase will work fine with Vista?
[EDIT - I found the answer to question 2 in a previous thread...it appears that there's no compatibility issues with the hardware, but there could be with the software. So is it safe to say that NERO 7 is good to use with 64-bit Vista?]
-J.