MSI K8n NEO4-F (help question)

KraidSaves · July 31st, 2005, 02:22 AM

Ordering a new comp tomorrow and I have a very important question about this motherboard. WIll it support an ATA 150 WD HD?
it seems to have diffrent specs then from the Newegg site. The new egg specs for this board says it has 8 channel audio and ATA 150 support. The MonarchComputer site says it has 7 channel audio and ATA-133 (i think). SO here are both of them

http://www.monarchcomputer.com/Merch...ct_Code=110299
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813130491

Here is the HD I want to buy I just need to know if its compatible with the motherboard

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822135106

This is the first time I build a computer thanks

Atomic Rooster · July 31st, 2005, 02:33 AM

From the MSI K8N Neo4-F spec page:

On-Board IDE/SATA

• An IDE controller on the nVIDIA nForce4 chipset provides IDE HDD/CD-ROM with PIO, Bus Master and Ultra DMA133/100/66 operation modes.
- Can connect up to 4 IDE devices
• NV RAID supports 4 SATA ports (SATA1-4). Transfer rate is up to 150MB/s.
• NV RAID (Software)
- Supports up to 4 SATA plus 2 ATA 133 Hard drives
- RAID 0 or 1, 0+1, JBOD is supported
- RAID function work w/ ATA 133 + SATA H/D or 2 SATA H/D

So the answer to your question is the motherboard only supports ATA133 IDE drives.

KraidSaves · July 31st, 2005, 02:42 AM

Crap this was making me believe that it might support ATA-150

• NV RAID supports 4 SATA ports (SATA1-4). Transfer rate is up to 150MB/s.

Well this is gonna suck. There doesn't seem to be such a big variety of ATA-133 drives on Newegg. I might have to reconsider this board althought it looked like a good one for begginers.

Atomic Rooster · July 31st, 2005, 02:45 AM

Look into getting a SATA drive. There's plenty of good fast one's at Newegg. The IDE ATA150 HDD's will work, but at only the ATA133 Transfer rate.

KraidSaves · July 31st, 2005, 03:06 AM

Aw man why can't I tell what is what. Would this board support SATA or SATA II?

http://www.monarchcomputer.com/Merch...ct_Code=110243

Atomic Rooster · July 31st, 2005, 03:14 AM

Quote:

- 4 x SATA 3Gb/s

Yup. Looks like it does.

KraidSaves · July 31st, 2005, 03:19 AM

Nice now would these 2 work together?

Mobo
http://www.monarchcomputer.com/Merch...ct_Code=110243
Hard Drive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822145082

Atomic Rooster · July 31st, 2005, 03:19 AM

Well hells bells! I just checked out the HDD you linked to. It's a Serial ATA 150 (SATA) drive. It's perfectly matched for the MSI K8n NEO4-F. Here I thought it was an IDE drive.

Teaches me not to check out ALL the supplied links!