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Red Plague
6 Nov 2003, 10:11am
I have a bit of a dilema. I have enough parts to build a reasonable second rig but have found the motherboard to be faulty. I have a bit of money tucked away but dont want to waste too much as its only a second rig...

I would like to have as many of the following as possible-

- Something that handles reaonably high AMD processor (approx 25 - 2800)
- Easily overclocked
- Handles at least PC2700 RAM
- Has an IDE RAID ability
- Onboard lan/sound
- nForce chipset

Suggestions?
Black Hawk
6 Nov 2003, 3:14pm
What price range?
Red Plague
6 Nov 2003, 4:03pm
Found a guy close by selling a Abit nf7 for £40, new in its box and it has a reciept for £60. He bought it thinking his board was dead, turned out to be his chip.

So i got it...

Thanks anyway.
mmonnin
6 Nov 2003, 5:42pm
Oh that doesnt have RAID tho.

These are 2 that I forgot to post before I left for school.

Gigabyte GA-7NNXP
Gigabyte GA-7N400PRO2
Red Plague
7 Nov 2003, 8:54am
Yea I realise that. I checked the details on it before purchassing. I like Abit boards and the price was right with most of what I wanted... so am happy enough. Will check out the other boards anyway.

Ta.
BobyJo
12 Nov 2003, 11:10pm
That nF7 is a good board, certainly will do what you need. You can install a new IDE Raid controller card and then you will have the raid like you want. Surely you can pick up a raid controller card for not much $$$.
Mt_Goat
13 Nov 2003, 12:40am
Hard to go wrong there! I hope it is a Rev 2.0 board though. You can get a HPT RocketRaid 100 card for reasonable to throw in there since it isn't he one with onboard. By getting a PCI RAID card you won't need to worry about future boards having it and can move your array from system to system.
Red Plague
13 Nov 2003, 10:13am
Are IDE raid controllers not slower than on board raid controllers?
BobyJo
13 Nov 2003, 1:59pm
They are both running off the PCI bus so they should be the same. Only SATA is rated faster than PCI raid.
PCI raid runs at either 100 or 133, SATA runs at 150 speeds.
Mt_Goat
13 Nov 2003, 4:45pm
Exactly the same speed for onboard and add on's. :D
Red Plague
13 Nov 2003, 5:08pm
So want about adding a SATA raid controller in the PCI slot? Is its max speed ATA133?
Mt_Goat
13 Nov 2003, 6:27pm
You can put a SATA controller in the PCI slot. That is what I did and got the RocketRAID 1520 2-Channel Serial ATA RAID Host Controller (http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduct.asp?DEPA=1&submit=Go&description=N82E16816115011).

The theoretical speed of a drive on a SATA controller is 150. With 2 good drives you should hit at least 80 in real life for ATA drives in RAID-0 and at least 100 for 2 SATA drives in RAID-0.