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P5N32-E SLI Plus vs 680i RAID 0 performance

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kbk75

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I am looking to put together a new system in the next few days and I was thinking of buying a 680i motherboard (Striker Extreme in all probability) until I realised that the RAID 0 performance of 680i motherboards is stuck at around 110mb/sec due to a problem with the MCP6 Southbridge on the board.

I want a board that supports 2x x16 SLi so that I can use two powerful 8800GTX cards in SLi, but I am also interested in running 4 hard drives in a RAID 0 + 1 setup. This is why the 680i is less attractive to me. After doing a lot of homework, I figured that the Asus P5N32-E SLI Plus is a hybrid 650i board with dual x16 slots for SLi and also uses the older nforce 570 southbridge. This should, in theory, eradicate the RAID 0 problem that the 680 boards have because the southbridge is not the MCP6 chip.

My question is this:

Does anyone have any benchmarks showing what an nforce 570 southbridge board can achieve in RAID 0 ? I am very keen to know if the RAID 0 performance on this Asus P5N32-E SLI Plus is unhampered, because that would make it the perfect board for my requirements.

If you've read this far, thanks. I hope somebody can shed some light on this so I can make a final decision on which motherboard I will use to power my new system.
 
That's the problem, neither can I. Well I'm beginning to think that I'll just go with the 680i, RAID problem and all. With 4x500GB drives I'll get my 110mb/sec and have a 1 TB redundant setup.

Thanks for the help guys.
 
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