Which 775 motherboard to choose?

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Hi,

I will be upgrading my system in the next few weeks, and cant really figure out what motherboard will serve my needs the best.
The things i already have/will buy:
530w tagan psu
intel e6600
2gig geil ddr 2 pc6400
ati x1800xl
2 ide harddisks, and 2 sata harddisks

So basically im looking for a motherboard which is compatible with all of the above, i will not require sli or crossfire, i however do want a board which allows RAID 0 (most of them do?).
And since i love performance, i also want a board which is capable of some very decent overclocking.

i hope anyone is able to give me some advice.

cheers
 
Only issue with a 965 based board is the lack of IDE ports. Can't remeber off hand how many the other boards have, but the P5B vanilla and AB9 here only have a single IDE port. If you've got 2 IDE drives + an IDE CDrom you maybe stuck...
 
yea i just noticed that aswell :\, infact i dont see any other 965/975 boards with 2 ide controllers :\, is there a way to get around that? Something as a pci IDE card?
 
Well it feels a bit forced, but i think its goodbye for my trusty IDE drives :(, those pci cards are too expensive to bother with them.
The Gigabye ds3 it is :)

thanks for your input everyone
 
Yea I don't understand why the newer boards are forcing out IDE. There's nothing wrong with the interface as it's almost as quick as SATA in real life use. So many people still have 2+ IDE drives and a IDE CD drive.

An cheaper option if you have 2 IDE drives is to get a SATA DVD drive. Costs you about £30 instead of £100 ;)
 
Darg said:
An cheaper option if you have 2 IDE drives is to get a SATA DVD drive. Costs you about £30 instead of £100 ;)
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True, if it wasnt for me already having a dvd burner and a dvd drive lol

Ow and mekrel, no dfi for me, i dont really like the dfi infinity pcb's color ( :) ) + gigabyte are cheap. And about the winni, it was just my luck to have THE worst clocking chip ever, and it didnt perform any better on my ultra-d. So beuh! :)
 
also, not only are they forcing out ide, but the ide ports arnt true ide, they use a jmicron controler, which deems most linux versions useless

but i like saa, i just bought a peice of poop called an ide to sata convertor so i could bypass the jmicron chipset but it doesnt work :@, looks im gona get my selft a nice sata dvd-rw drive soon :D then i all those huge-assed ide cables will be ridden from my pc, woohoo better cooling :D
 
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