January 6, 200917 yr this being my first computer build, i ordered all the parts and when they came today i realized i didnt get the cables to connect my drives because i thought that they would come with the drives. so my question is, i know that for my hard drive, i need a SATA 2 cable, but what about the dvd drive? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16827135176 thats the one i got. and also, do i need power cables for them? adamok, so my asus p6t delux came with some serial ATA calbes, are these SATA cables? im so lost right now
January 6, 200917 yr Your motherboard should come with SATA cables, and IDE cables. For that motherboard, which is SATA2, use the cables that came with it for SATA drives. For the DVD drive, should also be atleast one IDE cable in the Motherboard box. (Cant see for certain as the link to DVD below does not work) this being my first computer build, i ordered all the parts and when they came today i realized i didnt get the cables to connect my drives because i thought that they would come with the drives. so my question is, i know that for my hard drive, i need a SATA 2 cable, but what about the dvd drive? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16827135176 thats the one i got. and also, do i need power cables for them? adamok, so my asus p6t delux came with some serial ATA calbes, are these SATA cables? im so lost right now John Binner, MCDST U.S. Dept Of Veteran Affairs, Senior IT Analyst OI&T, SPM, Clinical Imaging 2022 Build: Thermaltake Core X71 Full tower case, ASUS Prime X570-P Motherboard, AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core CPU, ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX6900 XT GPU, G.SKILL Ripjaws 32GB DDR 3600 RAM, Thermaltake Toughpower GF1 850W 80+ Gold PSU, Cooler Master MasterLiquid ML240L Water Cooler
January 6, 200917 yr Author ok, i think im good. the mobo came with 6 SATA cables, and the DVD rom connects via a SATA cable. and my PSU has the SATA powers cables attached to it, so i think im all set. thanks for the helpadam
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