I bought one of these to replace my original ASRock K7SX8E motherboard which suddenly failed, rather than completely replace my old Socket A AMD XP2600+ based system.
This is a very useful motherboard for use as a replacement or when building a system based on the now obsolete Socket A processor.
Installation was easy, though the manual doesn't really tell you a great
deal. There's a lot of support for older hardware, such as IDE hard drives and CD/DVD drives and 1 Floppy drive. There's also a parallel printer port and even a COM1 communications port, and ASRock have even provided a bracket with a COM1 socket on it.
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Plug this into your motherboard IDE, add the SATA drive and you are away. It's that easy.
You will need a spare power line from the PC PSU to power the device, but most PSUs have spares these days.
It comes with a SATA cable.
Very useful piece of kit if you want a SATA drive and you only have an IDE on your MOBO.
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This motherboard is a great way to build a system around an old socket 754 chip (if you have one to hand). It is very reliable (I have had no problems with it at all) and would make a good basis for a home server set up or maybe a media centre. The only lacking feature is a gigabit ethernet but an additional pci gig ethernet card can be bought for £15 so it's not such a problem. However, remember that this technology is old so do not expect to build a system for playing modern games or encoding HD films.
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This motherboard is a great way to build a system around an old socket 754 chip (if you have one to hand). It is very reliable (I have had no problems with it at all) and would make a good basis for a home server set up or maybe a media centre. The only lacking feature is a gigabit ethernet but an additional pci gig ethernet card can be bought for £15 so it's not such a problem. However, remember that this technology is old so do not expect to build a system for playing modern games or encoding HD films.
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Nice bit of kit this. My Northbridge chipset fan was noisy when new but my PC is now 3 years old and the fan sounds like soneone drilling. The installation does require you to extract the motherboard to pinch out the existing pins which attach the Northbridge fan but once these are out it's pretty simple to line up and attach the brackets and pins for the new cooler. It comes with thermal paste but you'll need to clean up the old paste on the Northbridge first. Methanol is a great solvent for this. Positioning the cooler can be a bit tricky if you already have a large cooling fan for you CPU but the asymmetric vane arrangement and adjustable brackets permit you to twist the cooler round to fit it in snug against the CPU cooler vanes. Just remember to earth ... Read More:
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Nice bit of kit this. My Northbridge chipset fan was noisy when new but my PC is now 3 years old and the fan sounds like soneone drilling. The installation does require you to extract the motherboard to pinch out the existing pins which attach the Northbridge fan but once these are out it's pretty simple to line up and attach the brackets and pins for the new cooler. It comes with thermal paste but you'll need to clean up the old paste on the Northbridge first. Methanol is a great solvent for this. Positioning the cooler can be a bit tricky if you already have a large cooling fan for you CPU but the asymmetric vane arrangement and adjustable brackets permit you to twist the cooler round to fit it in snug against the CPU cooler vanes. Just remember to earth ... Read More:
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