bump for a good deal, i have this board with the xp 1700, stable and overclocks well. real time performance is basically on part with the 266A chipset. tihs board has teh c-media audio too, whichis supposed to be good, thought i haven't tried it. and if you look around, you will see that a lot of ppl like the raid on this board. it is fast, and you can set up a raid with only one drive. so yeah, go get it!
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let me rephrase what i said, they didn't set up an actual raid. rather they used a single drive with a signle partition on the raid channel for extra speed. i don't know all that much about raid, but apparently, this was a good feature cuz i guess some other boards don't allow you to do it?