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A good AMD motherboard (KT266A) with RAID...anyone?

Abit KR7A-Raid fits your requirements. The six PCI slots is the killer, plenty of good AMD boards with DDR and RAID, but most only have 5 PCI slots.
 
You might want to consider the Soyo Dragon plus,
Even though it only has 5 PCI slots, it has onboard NIC and a nice onbard Sound, so that can save you two PCI slots. And the onboard sound for this board is supposed to be superb, i've read reviews of it sounding almost as good as the audigy, the only thinng is that it doesnt have support for digital speakers. The board OCs very nicely. I have a 1.4 running at 1606 right now rock solid. Give the board some thought, it really is a quality board, and it comes with a lot of extra software and hardware goodies. Very nice board
 
yeah the kr7a fits the 6 slots and has 4 dimm banks. ill give another vote to the soyo dragon+. im running one right now and extremely happy with it. 5 pci slots and 3 dimms, but i use both the onboard audio and nic. i cant tell the difference between my live mp3+ 5.1 and the onboard audio. it's extremely low in overhead as well. as long as you RTFM you should be fine.

amdmb.com has an entire board devoted to this mobo practically, so if you run into issues (i had questions) there are tons of helpful folks there (not that there aren't any here, but you know the folks at amdmb have the same board as you).

there are a couple of finiky (sp?) things but nothing major. sandra has a problem if you run the memory benchmark (reboots the pc 1 out of 3 or 4 times). and motherboard monitor needs to have a patch installed to work with the board. the reason sandra crashes isnt really known right now, but has nothing to do (or so it's thought) with the memory. it happens to me and im running crucial pc2100 at the most agressive timings and have never had it lock up outside of sandra. not one crash with this board that wasnt my fault (like me pushing things too far like fsb, etc).
 
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