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M4n72-e - ASUSTEK COMPUTER 90-MIB750-G0EAY00Z

$139.00 Est. at Amazon

from smooney3, www.newegg.com
i actually like side-mounted ide.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
still, fired right up 800.only 1 ide connector.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
great layout (except the ide connection is turned on side).
from jn1669, www.newegg.com
last complaint expressgate does not work in raid mode or ahci, only works when set to ide.
from jn1669, www.newegg.com
express gate only works in ide mode.

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Positives: Good Performance, Easy To Install, Great Reliability, Socket AM2

2 RECOMMENDED by 15 people for VIDEO

Socket Am2 Amd770 4 X Ddr2 16gb- Ga-ma770-ud3

$98.00 Est. at Amazon

from N/A, www.newegg.com
1 board: the ide connector faces up so that if you have a large vid card like a gtx series, it's gonna cover that ide port.
from Steve, www.newegg.com
it's not a big enough issue to rma the mobo though.as others have stated ide connector is in a bad place but it really isn't that big of a deal.
from Thorvindr, www.newegg.com
if your cpu has any kind of decent cooling unit, you will not be able to reach the two slots closest to it, and the other two will be hard to reach.an earlier reviewer had a problem with the ide
from www.amazon.com
6 sata2 and 1 ide
from N/A, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: came with a pair of sata and ide data cables (four total) and custom rear jack plate for the case.

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Positives: Good Performance, Easy To Install, Excellent Reliability, Socket AM2

3 RECOMMENDED by 18 people for VIDEO

Gigabyte GA-EP43-UD3L

$91.00 Est. at Amazon

from N/A, www.newegg.com
for the most part it was very easy to install although i had an issue with the placement of the ide for connecting my dvd/cd.placing the tiny components from the front panel was time consuming and
from N/A, www.newegg.com
i don't use it, but it's still cool*6 sata ports*no ata ide (go away already!) cons: *2 of the sata ports are hard to get to if have a dual-slot gpu*didn't fully support the memory i bought
from Smoof, www.newegg.com
the ide connector is in a somewhat tricky spot as others have mentioned.
from TK, www.newegg.com
same with the 1 ide port, sata is the way to go.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
good design and extra long ide cable included which is good cause the ide interface is pretty far.

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Positives: Easy To Install, Good Reliability, Great Performance, Socket LGA775

4 RECOMMENDED by 10 people for VIDEO

FOXCONN A74MX-K AMD 740G AM2+/AM2 Phenom

$51.00 Est. at Amazon

from passerbyA, www.newegg.com
use it primarily for internet and word processing with some light video editing.
from martind360, www.newegg.com
comes w/ 4pin molex to sata adapter, sata cable, i/o shield, and ide cable.
from TheBeanery, www.newegg.com
only one ide connector.
from Foxconn, www.newegg.com
so not a big dea) this is my rig:amd athlon x2 4600+ 2.4ghz @ 2.58foxconn 740g micro2gb ddr2 667500gb sata hdd80gb ide hddcd/dvd drivehd 2600xt 256mb gddr3 (awesome card!)hec mid-tower casewindows xp
from Kamaaina, www.newegg.com
2 sata cables and 1 ide included.

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Positives: Easy To Install, Excellent Reliability, Excellent Performance, Socket AM2

5 RECOMMENDED by 9 people for VIDEO

Gigabyte P45 DDR2-1333X4 UD3 CPNT1PCIEX16 4PCIE

$118.00 Est. at Amazon

from Lgd3ndtd, www.newegg.com
cons: none really, just the ide connector is placed very far away from my where my cd slot is, very strange, as it is located all the way at the bottom, and usually located next to atx power.
from Spoon, www.newegg.com
does anybody know how to replace that?- would have been nice to have round ide cables included instead of ribbon.
from Sean, www.newegg.com
even has ide if your still running that..
from ViralSyris, www.newegg.com
cons: placement of the ide input is kind of a hassle with big video cards.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
cons: could use more fan inputs, ide plug a little awkwardly close to the sata ports.

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Positives: Easy To Install, Good Performance, Nice Reliability, Compatible Processors: Intel Celeron, Intel Core2 Duo, Intel Core2 Extreme, Intel Core2 Quad

Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-US2H

$102.00 Est. at Amazon

from Jimster480, www.newegg.com
5-5-5-18sapphire ati raedon 4850 pro 512mb120 & 160gb seagate internals (ide/sata)samsung (tsst) sh-220 dvd/ls burnerc-media 8768 powered soundcardthis moboalot of air cooling in acrillic
from StonedITdude, www.newegg.com
gfx cards, this isn't the case with my card which is a double wide one (his hd3870 512mb pcie x16 2.0 gddr4)the only one that is partially blocked is the oddball one that is nearest the ide slot.
from Eric, www.newegg.com
ide is done and over with, make a backup of the data and get a sata drive.
from chunky, www.newegg.com
40pin ide header is nice since i can use my older drives.
from Jim, www.newegg.com
make sure that your raid files are backed up on an ide on non raid drive if you are going to re use.

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Positives: Good Performance, Easy To Install, High Quality, Socket AM2

Intel - Single Unit uiTX 945G Atom330 BOXD945GCLF2

$110.00 Est. at Amazon

from MonsieurGonzo, www.newegg.com
put this motherboard into an antec nsk 4480b ii (intel tac 2.0 standard) chassis + combo earthwatts ea380 power supply, with a 3.5", 640gb wd caviar black sata hdd, and a "legacy" at-ide 5.25" odd.
from Dririan, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: i'm using it as a router appliance running vyatta, with a cf-to-ide adapter.
from Syrano, www.newegg.com
160 ide hard drive, lg crdw, and 2 gb of kingston ddr2 mem.
from Josh, www.newegg.com
the ide cable is right in front of the single ram stick.
from EverReadyUSMC, www.newegg.com
only has two sata drive ports, wished they would dump the ide connector in favor of adding two more sata ports.

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Positives: Easy To Install, Good Performance, Great Reliability, Compatible Processors: Intel Core Duo, Intel Atom

Gigabyte G31 DDR2-800X2 VGA EES PCIE16 2PCIE PCI

$66.00 Est. at Amazon

from BigDaddy, www.newegg.com
having vga onboard is great for super tight budget builds and will get you by if it breaks your budget for to purchase a separate video card.i keep waiting to see ide/pata support dropped on
from iamdavinci, www.newegg.com
it does have one ide port but that is it.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
only 1 ide controller other thoughts: easy configuration and setup
from www.amazon.com
* 1 legacy ide cable slot(pretty much common with all new motherboards, but 2 would be nice)
from Sam, www.newegg.com
pop in another one later for fast upgrade.western digital caviar se16 wd5000aaks 500gb 7200 rpm sata 3.0gb/s.lg 22x dvd?r dvd burner with lightscribe black ide.vista home premium 64bitsystem runs

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Positives: Great Performance, Excellent Reliability, Easy To Install, Socket LGA775

ASUS P6T Deluxe V2

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from Paradox, www.newegg.com
the ide plug will easily be covered (and unusable) by long graphics cards if installed in the topmost pci-e slot.
from Aenutt, www.newegg.com
i decieded rather than waste time i loaded up my os with my e-ide cable drive.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
the only flaw on neweggs part was that i ordered 2 sony sata dvd drives for simplicitys sake, and they sent 1 sony and 1 lg ide drive.
from JCW, www.newegg.com
layout of the sata ports is good, so is the ide port.
from MoeFromBrooklyn, www.newegg.com
you'll have to reach all the way over to the bottom of the case.-still have an ide ribbon for your hdd?

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Positives: Easy To Install, Great Performance, High Quality, Socket LGA1366

Intel D945GCLF 533FSB DDR2 667 533 Audio Video

$97.00 Est. at Amazon

from alphaniner, www.newegg.com
ubuntu (ff on dual booted windows is fine).maximum 512mb ram.no onboard speaker/buzzer, a feature which i used to hate, but have since come to appreciate in linux.the included ide cable was damaged.
from Franklin, www.newegg.com
it was a replacement for a friends computer with an outdated celeron got this not knowing how well it would stack up and i must say for a basic machine (no gaming or video editing) it works
from Ralphnaderchop, www.newegg.com
i'm using 2gigs of wintec 667 ram, and old 7200rpm ide laptop drive, and while it's not super snappy, it's not slow.
from Raymond Day, www.newegg.com
sata ports and ide.
from Raz1r, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: currently using this with 2gb of patriot 667 and a 256mb fx5200, 80gb ide hd and a sata dvd burner.

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Positives: Great Performance, Easy To Install, Excellent Reliability, Socket 771

GIGABYTE AM2+ AMD-RS780 4XDDRII-1066 5200HT

$73.00 Est. at Amazon

from Charles, www.newegg.com
in the bios, integrated peripherals, set sata 4&5 to ide mode so your o/s install can detect, boot, and read from the cd/dvd drive to load the o/s.
from numberoneoppa, www.newegg.com
i also like the fact that there are 7 sata ports in addition to two ide slots (one standard, one floppy).
from MukiEX, www.newegg.com
hard drives work in ide and ahci mode.
from Darthruneis, www.newegg.com
cons: it only has one ide connector, which for me, is unideal due to the optical drive i bought and the old hard drive i salvaged (for the os).
from ken_cinder, www.newegg.com
pros: 6 satahalf decent onboard video for the casual gamer cons: only 2 ram slotshaving an ide hard drive hooked up, windows refuses to install to an sata drive.

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Positives: Easy To Install, Good Reliability, Great Performance, Socket AM2

Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-UD4H

$138.00 Est. at Amazon

from Dexcaliber, www.newegg.com
i removed my old nvidea card to see how the onboard video performs, i ran crysis warhead on 2nd level video rendering and it ran real smooth.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
love how the box comes with 4 sata cables plus an ide.
from Mr.Erik, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: if your having problems installing windows disconnect any ide devices u dont need.
from bassman98, www.newegg.com
so, i had to use "native ide" mode for sata in order to install windows xp.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
(they should work fine in ide mode.) under ubuntu 9.04 they work, but you'll get an warning every time you boot for each drive saying "softreset failed (device not ready)".the networking card also

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Positives: Easy To Install, Good Reliability, Nice Performance, Socket AM2

ASUS M3A76-CM

$70.00 Est. at Amazon

from Iamshadowkiller, www.newegg.com
i wanted to put a huge 8800gs on it but feared i'd have problems due to it being a micro-atx but i made it work by moving the ide (yeah it's the 3rd pc it's in need of sata/ram upgrade) but yeah by
from General Guttless, www.newegg.com
it's part of a $150 build, using leftover ide hdd's, an old 4200 barton...
from Randall, www.newegg.com
ide connector faces out to the right side of the board instead of up--not a con for me but could make wrangling a ribbon cable into an organized position difficult depending on the case you're using.
from DanF, www.newegg.com
good to have the one ide connection.
from ardi, www.newegg.com
the single ide plugs in sideways, causing further screwing around in the case to get everything in.

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Positives: Easy To Install, Excellent Performance, Excellent Reliability, Socket AM2+

ASUS 8GB DDR2 1066 MHz M3A78

$109.00 Est. at Amazon

from Will, www.newegg.com
(and it only took me literally 4 minutes on the phone!!!) cons: mine came with a corrupt bios / faulty bios chip...only 1 ide slot..and its in an odd place...
from scudderw, www.newegg.com
only 1 ide, not a huge deal but matters.
from Dave Smith, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: only 1 ide connector so if you are planning to use this mobo be sure to have all your hard drives using sata ii connectors.bios settings are easy to jump through with alot of details
from N/A, www.newegg.com
1 ide port which is dying out anyway from what i have seen, i am a little stubborn with buying a sata based dvdrom anyway.
from Dave, www.newegg.com
cons: ide channel placement: interferes with sata channelsfloppy controller placement: complete joke..doesn't work at all in full-tower cases.

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Positives: Easy To Install, Great Performance, Nice Reliability, Socket AM2

Gigabyte X58 DDR3-2000X6 UD3 CPNT3PCIEX16 2PCIE

$370.00 Est. at Amazon

from Adam, www.newegg.com
i had hard time using it in plain ide mode, drives would disappear, in raid0 works fine though.
from www.amazon.com
be ware the ide connector is odly located at the bottom of the board causing cable to obstruct air flow.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
also, ide slot placement is a tad odd.
from Phoenixamaranth, www.newegg.com
supports current and legacy technology so if you still use fdd's, ide drives, etc your not out in the cold.audio in and out ports and can be assigned through software so you don't always have to use
from Testy, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: i wanted to move away from ide and floppy cables, they are obsolete.

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Positives: Good Reliability, Great Performance, Easy To Install, Memory Type: DDR3 SDRAM

Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD4P

$145.00 Est. at Amazon

from ReleaseAllFear, www.newegg.com
so better yet, just run the sata ports in ide mode and don't worry about it (performance is just as good, i benched it).don't know why someone someone gave bad marks for a max hyper transport speed
from Lee, www.newegg.com
up as a raid mirror on the gigabyte sata2 controller, my vista boot drive is on the amd sb750 in ahci mode, and windows server 03 (sharepoint dev environment) running on an ide drive for development.
from Strza, www.newegg.com
beyond feeling very stable, this board had enough fan controllers, usb, sata, and ide to keep me busy for a long time coming.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
has everything you need including 1 ide and 1 foppy connector.
from cmyguns, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: great performance and the dolby sound is amazing....x4 955 black edition4gb pc8500 2x1tb drives raid 02x250gb raid 11x80gb ide

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Positives: Easy To Install, Great Performance, High Quality, Socket AM2

Gigabyte GA-E7AUM-DS2H 991443028

$147.00 Est. at Amazon

from COWTOWNER, www.newegg.com
it displayed a prompt when i boot up letting me know i needed to configure ahci, as my hard drives were running in ide emulation.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
the audio problems went away after a complete windows (vista 32) update, and i had to set the bios to ide instead of ahci to allow des to work in stealth mode.
from spamcop, www.newegg.com
either way, i win.comes with flat ribbon ide and floppy cable, two sata cables (one has one end at a 90 degree angle which could be handy in tight cases), and an esata port.documentation is good with
from Sporx, www.newegg.com
the hard drive controller must be set at legacy " ide " .
from N/A, www.newegg.com
took me a little bit of googling and lspci -vv to find the modules/drivers for each device:sound -> hda intel (using alsa 1.0.19 for hdmi sound output)nic -> forcedethide -> jmicron idefor the video,

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Positives: Easy To Install, Nice Performance, Excellent Reliability, Socket LGA775

Gigabyte GA-G41M-ES2L

$75.00 Est. at Amazon

from N/A, www.newegg.com
it has ide,sata and 3.5 cable.
from Drake, www.newegg.com
one ide connector (now the norm).
from ssp, www.newegg.com
if you use the pata/ide then those ports get reconfigured in a different channel number, master/slave arrangement.
from ssp, www.newegg.com
cons: not a huge con, but only had one ide port (it has 6 sata ports to compensate), after the fact i could have used two.
from SJO, www.newegg.com
cons: not really a con, but make sure you understand this board has only one ide slot.

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Positives: Good Reliability, Easy To Install, Great Performance, Socket LGA775

Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P

$237.00 Est. at Amazon

from EvilHomerClone, www.newegg.com
lots of sata ports, raid 5 support, love having the ide channel (dvd rom).very nice when overclocking or just modifying system settings to have access to the internal power, restart & cmos clear
from Stich, www.newegg.com
the ide and floppy connections are in a place close to where almost everyone is going to use them.
from Dwight, www.newegg.com
the mobo was a replacement for an older gigabyte mobo (k8ns-pro) so almost all hds just plugged into the corresponding floppy, ide & sata connectors.
from Weld387, www.newegg.com
150gig,500gig,250gigx2gskill 12800cl9d-4gbnq (4gigs) @ 1333mhz stablexfx radeon hd4870 1 gig ddr5 (catylist 9.9 drivers)sony ide dual layer burnerlite on ide romcorsair 850 watt power supply.
from Bucky, www.newegg.com
lots of sata ports & still some old ide & a floppy connector.

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Positives: Excellent Performance, Easy To Install, Nice Reliability, Socket AM2

ASUS M3a78-cm 4719543162934

ASUS Motherboard M3a78-cm (4719543162934)

$97.00 Est. at Amazon

from Martie, www.newegg.com
the ide connection is from the side instead of from the top which was somewhat of a hassle, but i have small hands so i got it connected okay.
from santi203, www.newegg.com
great onboard video (of course im putting in a card eventually) ide and 6 sata ports makes it very managable.
from timbeyond, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: the processor is a 45-watt 2.3g athlon ii.the drives are a 40g 7,200rpm wd ide hdd, and a samsung 22x sata dvd-rw.
from Hitmouse, www.newegg.com
no problems with ide dvd drives or case installation.
from deuce, www.newegg.com
the onboard graphics were fine, the single ide allowed me to drag her old xp information over from her dell hd.

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Positives: Easy To Install, Nice Reliability, Nice Performance, Socket AM2

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M4n72-e - ASUSTEK COMPUTER 90-MIB750-G0EAY00Z

Socket Am2 Amd770 4 X Ddr2 16gb- Ga-ma770-ud3

Gigabyte GA-EP43-UD3L

FOXCONN A74MX-K AMD 740G AM2+/AM2 Phenom

Gigabyte P45 DDR2-1333X4 UD3 CPNT1PCIEX16 4PCIE

Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-US2H

Intel - Single Unit uiTX 945G Atom330 BOXD945GCLF2

Gigabyte G31 DDR2-800X2 VGA EES PCIE16 2PCIE PCI

ASUS P6T Deluxe V2

Intel D945GCLF 533FSB DDR2 667 533 Audio Video

GIGABYTE AM2+ AMD-RS780 4XDDRII-1066 5200HT

Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-UD4H

ASUS M3A76-CM

ASUS 8GB DDR2 1066 MHz M3A78

Gigabyte X58 DDR3-2000X6 UD3 CPNT3PCIEX16 2PCIE

Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD4P

Gigabyte GA-E7AUM-DS2H 991443028

Gigabyte GA-G41M-ES2L

Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P

ASUS M3a78-cm 4719543162934

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