Reusing current components

[richj]

I have an ASUS A7V-333 with an AMD 1800 CPU and an ASUS Geforce 4 Ti 4400, V8440, 3 ide hd's a DVD drive and 2 DVD RW's in my current system. I want upgrade it by getting a new MB, CPU and GPU. I want to stay with ASUS boards.

I would like to keep using the drives I have, but all the newer 775 ASUS boards have only one IDE connector and a bunch of SATA connectors. I have seen adapters to to go from IDE to SATA connector but how well do they work?

Also, if I get this GPU:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121218,

is this board:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131219

any better than this board:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131299

 

[gators1223]

not really, unless you plan to crossfire the p45 will do just fine
as for the adaptorsd it is really hit or miss some are good some aren't look at the newegg reviews to get a sence of it
you could just buy a new sata hd?
if you really want to use all 3 hdds without a card you could try this board, the chipset is older but was highly recommended back in its hayday didn't have the problems modern nvidia chipsets have
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131142

 

[rockyjohn]

You have three other options to consider:
1. Get an inexpense IDE controller card - either PCI or PCIe depending on which slots you expect to have available, or
2. Get an new hard drive. For about $55 (including shipping) you can get an "inexpensive" new HD such as the following 160GB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148230
t(he .10 are good - with perpindicular recording - the .11 are better but more expensive) - Go to the THG HD charts and compare the peformance of the above with your drive - if it is listed - it could make a signficant difference
3. Only install one DVD RW drive and no DVD drive - unless you really do a lot of drive to drive copying