That's good to know. Didn't even know they did things like that. However, his old drive is IDE so still no go. And besides, he only had about 800 MB of files he wanted to get off of the old drive. Guess he'll never fill up the 500 GB drive :).
That's a floppy drive (34 pin) connector.
The IDE / PATA pins are on the board, but there isn't a "connector". Look in the pic just behind the HDD (to the right of it) / to the left of the SATA ports and you can see where the connector would go but the "pinouts" are just there. Zoom in a few...
I know someone who owns this PC. It's a really good deal for general purpose computing.
However, there is one major downside. He was upgrading and wanted to move his old HDD into this machine. There was one major problem ... there isn't an open 3.5" bay. Newegg pics and specs say it all...
I've had several MSI boards. I've run with Kingston, Corsair, Micron, and even a few off brand chips. I've never had a problem with any of them. I don't think you will have anything to worry about.
I'm going to assume you mean the X2 4400+. You would be looking at dual core @ 2.2 GHz versus single core @ 2.4 GHz. Both would have 1 MB L2 cache (per core).
However, if you are talking about the single core 4400+, I'd go with the Opteron.
The only prices I see from da egg are Operton...
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