Originally posted by: Wurrmm
In comparing the Abit and Gigabyte, I noticed that Abit uses the ICH5 and Gigabyte uses the GigaRaid....is there performance/feature difference??
The Abit uses both the ICH5R and a RAID chip(SImage I think). The GB only uses an extra GigaRAID chip. The ICH5R supports RAID 0 only, through Intel's IAA utility. The ICH5R is only like $3 cheaper than the ICH5, so it's sort of odd that everyone isn't using it.