Via Raid or Nforce2 drivers?

[kelman6969]

I'm looking to buy a mboard for myself for college and I can't pin down which chipset to use... the new via kt600 or the older nforce2.
Anand has said that the nforce2 chipset utilizes better ide drivers giving 8-10% erformance over kt400 boards. I'm unsure if this will also translate into better i/o on an nforce2 board as compared to kt600 but I'm interested to know what you all think. So the question stands... will I get better performance for the money (around $115 is what I wanna spend) with a kt600/kt400 board with ide raid or an nforce2 without raid?


Anand's Claim

 

[chocoruacal]

nForce2, no doubt about it. I use the 8RDA+ in my builds, and have zero complaints about the board. If you don't go with nForce2, then honestly, I'd recommend skipping ANY VIA board and go with Intel As for RAID, save yourself the $$$ and forget about it...its not any faster for everday use. If you REALLY needed it, you would know

 

[kelman6969]

I've spotted the gigabyte 7n400 pro and I really like it at 120 bucks.... it has gigaraid already on it.... wouldn't I get a little bit of a boost to run raid on the nforce2 system or would it be nullified cuz of the drivers?