"drive 0, drive 1"? You talking about the SATA ports?
Check and see which ports are SATA 3 6Gb/s ports. Try to use those ports before reverting to the SATA 2 ports. Prioritize SSDs over HDDs for the SATA 3 ports. In reality, any port should "work". Just setup your BIOS so that it knows which drive on which port to boot off of.
@OP -
Corsair brick? PSU,you mean?lol.
Yea,both those items will work with your board. Fit the card into the PCI slot and use a SATA cable to connect the HDD.
How many fans does your case already have?If i recall correctly,the EVO has only 3 chassis fan headers and the usual CPU fan header.
i got 2 stock 120mm corsair fans with a case
ok, will do
thanks!
could someone tell me a difference between these two please?
http://sidex.ru/view.php?id=136831
http://sidex.ru/view.php?id=136830
The normal M5A97 R2.0 only has a 4+2 power phase design. The EVO R2.0 has the 6+2 power phase design.
which one should i pick then?
EVO R2.0 is much better.
just for overclocking or just overall?
Both. There will be less stress on the power delivery, elongating the board's life, and allowing a safer and better overclocking experience as you won't as easily blow your VRMs due to having more power phases.(not saying the M5A97 R2.0 has easy-to-blow VRMs, just that the EVO 2.0 is better)
ok, fuck it, i'm definitely getting EVO 2.0 mobo then!
now, for the ventilation system,
should i get extra 120mm fans for the case?
RAM:
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They're pretty much identical. Get the cheapest one that's 1600mhz
OK, i'll go with this one then
today's a rough day: - 34C, but i've picked the remaining parts at the store and now they are warming:
gonna put this all together in a few hours
Install the OS right onto the SSD, then install the GPU and motherboard drivers onto the SSD as well.
Then install only your most commonly used programs(that aren't that large in size) onto your SSD, then install the rest on your other hard drive.
It helps to set your browser download location to your hard drive instead of your SSD as well.
installed OS smoothly
and problem number one:
computer can see only SSD drive with OS on it, but doesnt see HDDs
what causing this problem?
in BIOS i can see all 3 drives
Prolly drive is new and needs a label.
1. run diskmgmt.msc
2. Find the hard drive that's not appearing and click it
3. Right click and find something along the lines of a "new simple volume" and keep clicking ok.
Here's a quick tut i pulled up: http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-install-a-sata-drive-in-a-windows-7-desktop.html
it worked, thanks man!
