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Motherboard suggestion for me? (cel@850, Raid, 256mb)

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Annul

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I am currently running my Celeron 566 at 850 on my good old Abit BX6.

I want to upgrade to a new motherboard that has raid0 capabilities.

The components I have at the moment:

256Megs of PC133
850 cpu / 100mhz bus
Geforce2
SB Live
3com nic

I have been mostly looking at the Abit BX133 and the Abit SA6R. I am of course looking for stability and performance, price does not really matter.

Does anyone have good/bad points on either of these boards?


PS, on the abit FAQ site there is a warning about 256meg dims and the i815 chipset.. something to do with the number of chips on the ram, Im not sure what chip config my ram is.. is this a common problems?
 
If you really want built in raid the bx133 should be an ok choice. I know that there have been problems with the highpoint controller that it uses. Iwill makes a board that overclockers.com recommended. This board also uses the same raid controller. I believe it was called a vd133pro. I personally think you would be better off buying a promise raid card because Abit isn't generally known for the highest stability or quality. Also when you do upgrade your motherboard you will still want to have your raid card.

I think that the thing with the i815 chipset is that it forces it to run at 100mhz if you use 2 dimms or something like that. I am not sure of the details.
 
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