Hello, On Sat, 13 Mar 2010, C wrote:
:-) Ha... well... I spent a little time and effort picking the motherboard, and so far it's done me well... Gigabyte GA-MA770-UD3. It has loads of USB ports, SATA ports etc. It's not a good board though if you've got a newer nVidia card and still want to use the IDE ports.. the IDE socket is in a terrible spot.. right under where the vid card extends across the board. You can't plug in the IDE ribbon cable and the vid card at the same time.. the IDE connector is too high and you can't seat the vid card.
What revision do you have? I have the same board, rev 2.0 it seems, and there the IDE-Slot is "flat" pointing away from the board, thus the IDE-Connector shows to the right (if you're looking at the board). Looking at http://www.gigabyte.de/FileList/Image/motherboard_productimage_ga-ma770-ud3_... it depends on how "fat" the PEG card is at that spot. Anyway: on my board, the green IDE-slot is rotated 90° "downwards", so the connector and cable will leave parallel to the mobo / case "downwards" (in the pic). -dnh -- Q: "Excession is particularly popular because of its copious detail concerning the Ships and Minds of the Culture, its great AIs: their outrageous names, their dangerous senses of humour. Is this what gods would actually be like?" A: "If we're lucky." -- Iain M. Banks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org