Is Asus P4P800-Deluxe the best?

[faye]

Hi,

I am getting a very decent 865PE motherboard for a friend.

I am wondering is Asus P4P800-Deluxe the best,? what i mean the best is it cover the most like GigaLan, Sata Raid, Pata Raid and etc..

my second choice is ... i don't know i don't have one.

Please gimme some advices.

THanks

 

[First]

Yeah, that's a great board. For less you could also pick up an ASUS P4S800D-E based on the SiS 655TX chipset. Either way, you can't go wrong, just choose based on the features you need.

 

[tallman45]

Be careful with actually using 2 on-board raid controllers. If you have to RMA your mb for any reason then you loose your arrays and all their data. They may sound like good features but realistically using both would not be wise.

 

[LouPoir]

Id say in the I865 family, the Asus P4P800 Dlx is the top. Bu in my opinion, the Abit IS7 is neck in neck.

As usual, IMHO

Lou

 

[faye]

Originally posted by: LouPoir
Id say in the I865 family, the Asus P4P800 Dlx is the top. Bu in my opinion, the Asus IS7 is neck in neck.

As usual, IMHO

Lou

Do u somehow mean ABIT IS7?
is it as great as ASUS? i believe IS7 is cheaper

 

[Odeen]

If you don't use RAID, you can swap controllers from under hard drives without much fear of data loss.

I really like the P4P800-DLX. It's the only board save for DFI LanParty Pro875 / Pro875B that provides a dual-port secondary PCI controller (and, reportedly, with the latest BIOS update, the Via PATA controller runs as well as the more established Promise and Highpoint controllers). It also has a pretty logical firewire port layout (one integrated on the backpanel, and one header to be connected either to front firewire on the case, or to a port cover that goes in the back)

 

[faye]

Originally posted by: tallman45
Be careful with actually using 2 on-board raid controllers. If you have to RMA your mb for any reason then you loose your arrays and all their data. They may sound like good features but realistically using both would not be wise.

tallman45, do u mean that if the board is dead, the drive is dead too if i use raid? I believe i will setup raid 0(the fast one)

 

[tallman45]

If your mb goes bad and you need to rma it, and you had an on-board raid controller then yes you will loose all of your data. The striping information is held in the on-board controller. Simply taking your 2 Raid 0 drives and connecting them to a new controller will not result in the data on those drives being retrievable.

If all you had was your os and apps on the Raid then these can easily be reloaded via a new installation as long as you have the install cd's.