p4c800 deluxe and sata

[lionheart3]

i am considering purchasing a western digital raptor sata drive but had heard this board has problems with sata, are the problems only with sata raid or also just a single sata hard drive, i dont care about raid. i have had the board for quite awhile and its been working great for me but ive never used serial ata so far

 

[Camofrog]

that board should be able to support up to 6 harddrives. and NO you do not have to have two serial HD for them to work. I dont use RAID either, but was planning on getting two of the new WD 76gb 10,000rpm SATA Raptors to put in a RAID 0 config. you only need two of the same if you are using RAID.

 

[willbemcse]

Hi Camofrog
I am also considering getting the same board. How easy it is to overlock the CPU. Any other reason you choose this instead of Abit??

 

[Bad Dude]

Originally posted by: Camofrog
that board should be able to support up to 6 harddrives. and NO you do not have to have two serial HD for them to work. I dont use RAID either, but was planning on getting two of the new WD 76gb 10,000rpm SATA Raptors to put in a RAID 0 config. you only need two of the same if you are using RAID.

When you use sATA RAID on this board, does it use the Promise controllers or the Intel CH5R?
I think the P4C800-E has the Intel CH5R built in while the P4C800 does not. I could be wrong.