IC7-MAX3 Questions

[Looney]

I'm upgrading from an Abit KT7A-r board.On the IC7-MAX3 I would like to know if Ican install 2 80gig Maxtor harddrives into the SATA 1 and 2 slots and not raid together? Will I be able to install the OS to the 1st drive and boot up as I would in IDE prim master and use the 2nd drive as stoage?

Also, whats the best memory to put on this board? I may be too late in askinking but what I have or will have is CORSAIR MEMORY XMS, Platinum Series (Twin Pack) 1GB(2 x 512MB) 2x(64MX64) PC-3700. I'll be running an Intel Pentium 4 / 3.0CGHz, 800 MHz FSB. Thanks for the help.

 

[TomG]

the drives can be used on the SATA controller in non-raid mode just fine. one driver per controller channel. if the drives are not SATA, you have to use the Serillel-2 adapters and the board only comes with one the last I knew. the ram you are getting looks good to me. I run Corsair XMS3500 on my IC7-G which was one of the predecessors to the MAX3.

 

[Looney]

Thanks Tom G.

On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 13:14:36 -0400, "TomG"
wrote:

the drives can be used on the SATA controller in non-raid mode just fine. one driver per controller channel. if the drives are not SATA, you have to use the Serillel-2 adapters and the board only comes with one the last I knew. the ram you are getting looks good to me. I run Corsair XMS3500 on my IC7-G which was one of the predecessors to the MAX3.