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March 11th, 2006 18:00

PowerEdge 830 as home PC

I have a PE 830 (Pentium D dual core) machine.
 
Its currently quite a bare bones system, proc/ram/2xHDD and a the standard DVD/cd/cdr drive.
 
Im wanting to buy three upgrades, namely:
Gigabyte GeForce 6600GT 128MB (PCI-E DVI-I)
Philips DVD+-R/RW DL 16x (IDE)
Hauppauge WinTV PVR 350 (PCI)
 
I cant see any problems with the upgrades, except for the phillips IDE DVD writer - does the motherboard support IDE?
 
any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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    nigwil

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    Posted March 15th, 2006 15:00

    Check-out these people for a PCI-E X16 to X8 adapter for the graphics card (your mainboard has the smaller connector and will need the converter):

    http://www.adexelec.com/pciexp.htm

    PEXP16-SX-16/8 X16 TO X8 CONVERTER

    cheers,
    nigel.
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    GenieCiel

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    Posted March 27th, 2006 00:00

    The board has a Standard IDE controler supporting 2 devices (master and Slave). I have the same PE with a dell CDR and a DVD burner both IDE. Works fine :-)

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