I am getting ready to purchase an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe mother board and have a qouple of nooby questions. I am getting ready to put a new rig together, using some of my old components. I will be installing Winows XP Home. I have a Pioneer DVD-116 (IDE), and a Yamaha CRW2100E CD-ROM (IDE) that I want to move from my old rig to the new one. I intend to get a new HD something like the Western Digital 120GB SATA hard drive.
Question 1: Is there going to be a problem with this? Can I install the DVD and CD-ROM each on the separate IDE slots? Could i have a conflict here?
Question 2: I want at least 1024 MB memory. What is the best way to go on this?
Question 3: I have researched this board, and believe that it is a good choice, however I have read some horror stories on the various forums. With this board, am I getting into something that I might have trouble handling.
I live in a fairly remote section of Oregon, and good local technical help is almost non-existant. There are a few people around working as technicians, but they appear to run out to the limits of thier experience pretty quick, so except for good forums like this, I am going to be pretty much on my own.
Question 1: Is there going to be a problem with this? Can I install the DVD and CD-ROM each on the separate IDE slots? Could i have a conflict here?
Question 2: I want at least 1024 MB memory. What is the best way to go on this?
Question 3: I have researched this board, and believe that it is a good choice, however I have read some horror stories on the various forums. With this board, am I getting into something that I might have trouble handling.
I live in a fairly remote section of Oregon, and good local technical help is almost non-existant. There are a few people around working as technicians, but they appear to run out to the limits of thier experience pretty quick, so except for good forums like this, I am going to be pretty much on my own.