HELP! Need NF7-S with RAID integrated on south bridge

[S4M33R]

I bought two Raptor II's and having the SATA controller integrated onto the PCI bus would slow me down I believe(?). Can anyone suggest me a motherboard which supports SATA RAID directly to the south bridge and has the OCing capability close to the Abit NF7-S? Preferably less than $150 but if not that is ok. Thanks a lot!

Edit: I'm looking at the N-Force 2 400 ultra boards, I'm pretty sure Serial ATA is on their southbridges right?

 

[PliotronX]

Originally posted by: S4M33R
I bought two Raptor II's and having the SATA controller integrated onto the PCI bus would slow me down I believe(?). Can anyone suggest me a motherboard which supports SATA RAID directly to the south bridge and has the OCing capability close to the Abit NF7-S? Preferably less than $150 but if not that is ok. Thanks a lot!

Edit: I'm looking at the N-Force 2 400 ultra boards, I'm pretty sure Serial ATA is on their southbridges right?

It might bottleneck a bit on the PB, but I'm not sure. What I am sure of however, is the NF2 MCP-T does not have S-ATA support whatsoever, but I think the NF250GB or whatever it's called does have it, only they are getting rid of Soundstorm by the looks of it, as the APU is not included with any current Nvidia chipset besides the MCP-T on the NF7-S, DFI Inf/LP, etc.. The APU is easily matched by the Audigy 2 series of cards and even surpassed by them in analog quality. Depends on your needs, good luck :beer:

 

[S4M33R]

edit: damn nevermind about the NF2 400 ultra I suppose...