P4 Titan/Dragon Ultra/BD7-R

SKlass

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Going back to the light side guys and I'm finding myself out of touch with Intel boards after working with AMD exclusively for the last 1.5 years. What do you guys think of the mobos listed above. After some light research, all 3 seem to be worthy choices according to reviews. Help me out guys.. personal experiences would be appreciated! Pairing it up with a 1.6A or a 1.7A. I'm looking for 2.2GHz or better. I know my Memory and existing cards can take ~145MHz FSB so does that mean that 2320MHz+ (16x145) is possible?

This is also a chipset shootout. i845 represented by the Titan and the BD7 and the Sis645 represented by the Dragon. Any one recommend the VIA P4 chipset?

On board RAID is a BIG plus. I prefer the Highpoint controller over the Promise controller but that's less of an issue.
 

Blain

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From what I've read, I'd go with the BD7-R.
I plan on doing the same as you shortly. The 845 chipset just looks too flexible and stable to me to think about something else. Except maybe an 850 Abit board. But that brings in the whole RIMM deal.
I've had enough of VIA's downloads to last me for a while. A new driver to fix this... A patch to fix that... Enough already!