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**wrench97** · 06-21-2009, 11:08 AM

The drive has the jumper and usually the settings are on a tag on the drive, it would be better to run hard drives on the IDE controller and optical drives on the sata controller.
I haven't run it across it be have read reports of optical drive issues on the IDE controller of newer boards.

06-21-2009, 11:08 AM	#45 (permalink)
wrench97 Moderator, Hardware Team Join Date: May 2008 Location: S.E. Pennsylvania Posts: 18,632 OS: Win7	Re: hardware components for a gaming pc The drive has the jumper and usually the settings are on a tag on the drive, it would be better to run hard drives on the IDE controller and optical drives on the sata controller. I haven't run it across it be have read reports of optical drive issues on the IDE controller of newer boards. __________________ Power Supply and Selection