SATA Hard Drives

[Owen Townend]

On 25/06/2008, David Fox <dfox94085 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 5:48 AM, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>  >    My computer and BIOS must be older than yours. It is a
>  > GeForce6100-M9 mainboard and the bios does not have any SATA ports
>
>
> My MB also has a 6100 geforce on board. It's an ECS 6100-pm-m2 brand
>  new (bought it 3 weeks ago) and it does have sata ports.
>
>  It's an OK motherboard and good for what I want it to do - and it was
>  $98 including CPU (Dual Core AMD 64) so I couldn't resist ;). But it
>  doesn't come with any SATA cables or SATA power cables :(.
>

Hey,
  The mobo I mentioned has a Radeon HD3200 as its onboard video which
is surprisingly good. I've paired it with a Phenom 9600 and am using
it as my HTPC and vmware/dev/plaything. The onboard video has no
troubles with HD video ( one review had it playing crysis too, albeit
at <10fps ). The mobo was (just) under $100, but my cpu was a little
over $200. Had I not already had a box loaded with hard disks it would
have been tempting to go with a low voltage CPU and headed down the
silent path.

  If anyone is having issues with any of the same components as I'm
using here feel free to message me, I may have had the same problems
and overcome them.

Complete specs:
Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H  - AMD 780G chipset
Onboard ATI Radeon HD3200  - very similar to the discrete HD2400
Phenom 9600 (Quad 2.3GHz)
4GB DDR2-800 (2x2GB kit)
Pioneer SATA DVD burner
2x40GB PATA hdd (maxtor and seagate)  - used as OS disks
4x400GB Samsung SATA-II  - Software RAID 5 & LVM2
3x750GB WD SATA-II  - Software RAID 5 & LVM2
Generic Sil3114 4 port PCI SATA-I adapter
AVerMedia AVerTV Hybrid+FM PCI  - DVB works great, still working on
analogue, radio and composite in.
Antec 4U22 ATX 19" Rack Mount Case - a great case btw.

cheers,
Owen.