I need an Ultra STABLE nForce2 board!

[misle]

I'm getting ready to build a computer for my home recording studio.

What I need:
Stable (very important)
High speed writing to HDD
Fast
AMD board, preferably nForce2 (I plan on using a Barton 2500+ & 1 GB of DDR)

Concerns:
I would like Serial ATA - but I'm worried about the controllers. With my old Abit KT7A-RAID, the Highpoint RAID controller would but skips and noise into my recordings.

I'm using a Delta 1010 for the recording.

Please give me some recommendations!

 

[Vette73]

The Abit NF7-S should fit the bill. The only time it has been unstable is when I went a little over board on the overclocking. The SATA port works fine. I think there are problems when you try and use it as a Raid, but my single drive is jumming right along on the SATA port.
The on-board sound is GREAT, and it has firewire, ethernet, and usb 2.0. Great all round board.

 

[Aenslead]

Any nForce 2 motherboard is ultra 400 stable (geddit??????)...

Anywho... Gigabyte, Abit, ASUS, DFI... they all have feature packed solutions, high reputation, and lots of information about them on forums.

 

[McArra]

My A7N8X deluxe is very stable, but as these guys said, almost every Nforce 2 is Ultra Stable.

 

[misle]

That's very good to hear.
I guess my main concern would be on-board controllers, like RAID and SATA. I read on nForcersHQ's forum about the Gigabyte board having a problem with its ITE PATA RAID chip that injects noise into sound cards.

Since this board is going to used for my Digital Audio Workstation, I want to make sure I don't run into these problems.

I've been using an Epox EP-8RDA board with very good results. I don't plan on using RAID, but I don't want noise for the SATA either.