Motherboard choices? (AM2)
Idealy I would like a Nforce or ATi based Board with 1 PCI-E x16 slot (I am not worried about graphical performcance for this comp, I just feel a dual core would help a lot, over the agin 2800+ barton I have in it curently), and one that will overclock well, but my problem is I want them to be a drop in replacement for a system I am running right now, which means I need one with 2 IDE channels (The majority of boards I have looked at have only 1) as this system is mostly used for video editing and thus has two PATA drives and Three more SATA drives 2 in raid and one that the Windows/Ubuntu install sits on, that along with the two dvd burners, means I need to make sure I can still use them (unless a IDE add in card can deliver good performance for the raided drives, and even then Linux suport would be something I would like)
I know I will have to rebuild the raid array anyway, and I will get some people simply telling me to buy a couple of SATA drives to replace the PATA ones, but the thing is, the drives are 320gb each, and pretty new, so I don't relish the thought of replacing them, a I don't want the hastle of buying a couple of new rives and selling on these two.
Thanks in advance.