[mythtvnz] Quick HDMI question....

[rob at webworxshop.com]

On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:09:15 +1300, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:19:34 +1300, you wrote:
>
>>Hi All,
>>
>>After all the hardware recommendations you provided me with I went
>>ahead and bought all the components on Saturday and assembled my box
>>(it's very quiet!). It's yet to have an OS due to me being busy
>>yesterday - that will be tonight's job.
>>
>>There were two things which I missed when buying my components. The
>>first is that I didn't realise that IDE has completely gone the way 
>> of
>>the Dodo in favour of SATA. This means another trip to pbtech tonight 
>> to
>>pick up a SATA DVD drive (rather than using the IDE one I already had
>>spare).
>
> There is no need to get a SATA DVD drive unless your motherboard does
> not have any IDE ports.  They usually still have one.  A SATA DVD
> drive is no faster than an IDE one.  And if you are using a
> motherboard with fewer SATA ports, using an old IDE DVD drive keeps 
> an
> extra one available for when you need another hard drive.
>

The motherboard is this one [0]. I can confirm that it has no IDE 
ports, probably because of the m-atx form factor.

Rob

[0] 
http://pbtech.co.nz/index.php?z=p&p=MBDGBM3073&name=GIGABYTE-A75M-D2H-AMD-A75-CHIPSET-MATX-Socket-FM1-