DEVICE MANAGER AND CONTROLLER CARDS??????

[stevena]

I am new to this and trying to prepare to build my own(first) system. I keep reading about device managers and controller cards, When are they needed and when not.
Thanks for your time. Steve

[Slump]

The only controller card of interest is if you're going SCSI. Then you need a SCSI card, unless the motherboard has integrated SCSI interface. If you're getting IDE-stuff (hd, cd-rom) all you need is on the mb.