Possibly the biggest nub question ever

[jcll2002]

I plan on upgrading to c2d and i was wondering if need to have a floppy drive...

If i do, which ones would you recommend for the cheapest? I can only find OEM ones and I was also wondering what exactly i need to have in terms of cables in order for it to work...

do i even need one in the first place?

 

[Riddlinkidstoner]

You should always have a floppy drive handy for a number of applications (bios flashing, RAID setup, Ultimate boot cd, etc) and a floppy drive has its own power connector and a floppy cable called....floppy cable .


An external USB floppy should work...although i never tried it with any of the above applications..

 

[tuskenraider]

Yep, still a good idea to have a floppy drive. They're cheap, so why not. A cable for a floppy drive should have come with your motherboard. Any of these will work fine: http://www.newegg.com/ProductSort/SubCategory.asp?SubCategory=13

 

[jcll2002]

lol it probably did but i just dont know what it looks like lol