Ok I have gone back and forth the last couple weeks on a new gaming rig. I had an AMD rig pegged until my budget increased two-fold. Being an AMD guy, even I realized that at this point and time the value is in the SB processors. But I do not want to wait months for a fix. I'm running an ancient Athlon 64 single core, OEM Gateway P.O.S. I've suffered through this thing as long as humanly possible and loathe the idea of waiting when I finally have the cash and time to build a new reg.
Having said that from what I understand the only real problem with the SB chips is that you lose 3-4 Sata Controller but 1-2 work perfectly normal. If this is the case, If I built a system with a nice big SSD and nice big Sata HD, and use IDE optical drives, would I really be missing out on anything? Is there really any performance increase in optical drives, and if so, since I'm not into much burning, or ripping, should I have any other reasons to hold me back from pursuing this? I haven't researched it yet, but from what I can tell the boards and procs are still out there and though harder to find they have not had any price gouging and are still a good value. Couldn't I just add a sata controller card later on if I found it necessary for a 3rd or 4th Sata connector? I really want to do this, but I just want the advice of some people more informed than I whether or not there is some big disadvantage I'm missing here by going forth with the SB set-up and just giving up the extra controllers.
Thank you in advance.
FSM
Having said that from what I understand the only real problem with the SB chips is that you lose 3-4 Sata Controller but 1-2 work perfectly normal. If this is the case, If I built a system with a nice big SSD and nice big Sata HD, and use IDE optical drives, would I really be missing out on anything? Is there really any performance increase in optical drives, and if so, since I'm not into much burning, or ripping, should I have any other reasons to hold me back from pursuing this? I haven't researched it yet, but from what I can tell the boards and procs are still out there and though harder to find they have not had any price gouging and are still a good value. Couldn't I just add a sata controller card later on if I found it necessary for a 3rd or 4th Sata connector? I really want to do this, but I just want the advice of some people more informed than I whether or not there is some big disadvantage I'm missing here by going forth with the SB set-up and just giving up the extra controllers.
Thank you in advance.
FSM