The Abit KT7A Motherboards and Raid

[BritishBeefEater]

Currently I have an old UDMA 33 Motherboard, and a PII 400Mhz CPU, 128mb PC100 RAM, and an Abit Hot Rod (UDMA 100) Raid controller with two UDMA 100 20.4Gb Hard Disks.

Questions:
Is the performance of the Raid System slowed by the speed of the old Motherboard? (the Benchmarks i have ran indicate that it is!!)

If I bought an Abit KT7A Raid Motherbaord and a 1Ghz Athlon, would I need to reformat the two Hard Disks in order for them to work on the onboard Raid Controller? Or would there be no performance loss in using the original Raid Controller and a None Raid Motherboard?

NB/ I am using Raid 0 throughout............

Also on a side note:
Does the AMD athlon need a 300W PSU? or would 250W suffice (as they say Athlon Certified)

Any answer would be gr8ly appreciated!!!

 

[JustStarting]

Getting ready to set up 2 Seagate 30GB hdd's on my KT7Raid soon. From what I've researched when you set up the raid configuration in the bios it wipes the hdd's. Glad I'm using two new drives anyway- sure it is easier that way. Just back up your stuff first to another hdd then configure your raid setup on the kt7. Love this board- first time builder- minor problems w/ sblive sound, but easily solved by changing sound card IRQ's. Good luck.