Best motherboard for RAID0 ?

Subliminal Aura · 27 Mar 2007 at 11:28

Any ideas ? My budget is upto £100 and it needs to be S775 with good overclocking potential.

Benchmark results show that I should be looking at an ICH8 or ICH7 board

masslac · 27 Mar 2007 at 11:29

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-221-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=205

Subliminal Aura · 27 Mar 2007 at 11:31

NO you can't compare that piece of junk with ICH8 mate

netby · 27 Mar 2007 at 11:37

I mate

good for raid 0 and good overclocking potential

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-219-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=565

masslac · 27 Mar 2007 at 11:39

Subliminal Aura · 27 Mar 2007 at 11:40

I have this board already its good but not that good.

Interestingly I just found this
http://tomshardware.co.uk/2007/03/19/is_nforce_650_the_mainstream_master_uk/

It's a good read

WJA96 · 27 Mar 2007 at 11:43

Subliminal Aura said:
NO you can't compare that piece of junk with ICH8R mate

I love the P5N-E SLi dearly, but the current implementation of NVRAID is exceptionally poor.

The P5B-E is good, also the Gigabyte DS4 or the Abit QuadGT. All are P965/ICH8R boards.

Of course, you really should be looking at an independent RAID card with it's own cache and processor for the best speed improvement. Most RAID 0 setup are not much quicker than a 16Mb cache Raptor truth be told. And tehy are not great for stability. Even the ICH8R is relatively unstable compared to a single disk.

WJA96 · 27 Mar 2007 at 11:47

Subliminal Aura said:
I have this board already its good but not that good.

Interestingly I just found this
http://tomshardware.co.uk/2007/03/19/is_nforce_650_the_mainstream_master_uk/

It's a good read

Most of the early adopters on here can overclock better than that review would indicate and the SLi Memory has been in the BIOS since 0401. The RAID benchies look about right though.

Subliminal Aura · 27 Mar 2007 at 11:52

WJA96 agreed the pc5n-e is a good clocker but I'm just not happy with its raid performance tbh.

I think I might try the DS3 I've been avoiding gigabyte for months cos I had a mobo fry up some cpus and VGA cards :eek:

WJA96 · 27 Mar 2007 at 11:59

Subliminal Aura said:
I'm just not happy with its raid performance tbh.

Mine kept failing. I just bit the bullet and bought a 150Gb Raptor in the end. RAID is just too much messing about unless you buy the mega-pricey Adaptec/Promise add-in cards.

Subliminal Aura · 27 Mar 2007 at 12:26

Cheers looks like I have settled on the DS3P reviews look good having trouble sourcing one at the moment though

Subliminal Aura · 28 Mar 2007 at 00:08

Just came back to this and think a buy to play impulse is on hold due to the pending new processors from Intel.

Going to sit it out till April the 22nd looks like the new E6320s / E6420s may be playful. (awaits WJA96s oc results

) maybe

And what about bearlake and ICH9/ddr3 mobos is this just a myth or will it be a long wait before they emerge ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core_2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_chipsets#Core_2_Duo_Chipsets

(yes iwikipedia may not be accurate but hell at least its an insight into things to come)