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First post, by DoomGuy II

Posted on 2015-05-28, 00:38

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This may not be much of a retro topic, but it falls into the category of having a more modern system with an internal floppy drive for transfers and such between it and my older systems. I have a Dell Dimension E521 that I've maxed out a few weeks ago with an AMD Athlon X2 5600+, 4MB RAM, and a Geforce 9400 GT (plan to at least upgrade it to a 9800GT since I got an 850W PSU in there). So, I was wondering what would be the last computer or motherboard to support internal 1.44MB high-density disk drives. Sure there are external floppy drives, but I feel that they're not as effective as an internal one.

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Reply 1 of 6, by ODwilly

Posted on 2015-05-28, 01:14

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Some AM3+ motherboards. I use the AsRock Extreme4 990fx and love it.

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Reply 2 of 6, by firage

Posted on 2015-05-28, 01:16

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ASRock still had an onboard floppy connector on their Z77 based motherboards.

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Reply 3 of 6, by smeezekitty

Posted on 2015-05-28, 02:48

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Asrock is a place to look. Many of their later boards have them
My G41M-S3 with a BIOS date of 2011 has one

Reply 4 of 6, by mockingbird

Posted on 2015-05-28, 03:27

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Yes, ASRock Fatal1ty boards had them...

But it must be going through a PCI bus to PCIe express bridge chip.

The last Intel chipsets to support PCI natively were B65, B75, Q65, Q75, Q67, and Q77.

I believe even the AMD 990 still supports native PCI.

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Reply 5 of 6, by obobskivich

Posted on 2015-05-29, 17:16

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mockingbird wrote:
Yes, ASRock Fatal1ty boards had them... […]
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Yes, ASRock Fatal1ty boards had them...

But it must be going through a PCI bus to PCIe express bridge chip.

The last Intel chipsets to support PCI natively were B65, B75, Q65, Q75, Q67, and Q77.

I believe even the AMD 990 still supports native PCI.

AMD 970/990 is older, compared to modern Intel offerings (it's been out for a few years) - that isn't a bad thing, especially if you want more legacy support features. AM2+ boards with 790 can also be useful (they should support AM3 CPUs, depending on BIOS support), and may have more PCI slots than modern boards.

I know my ASRock Z97x does not have floppy/PATA/PCI at all (curiously it does have a header for serial though). USB external drives would be an option on something like that.

Reply 6 of 6, by PhilsComputerLab

Posted on 2015-05-29, 17:33

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AMD seems a good option. My only AMD machine is my capture computer in my lab, because it has a FDD port for the GOTEK floppy emulator. I use it very often!

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