Where's a good place to find discontinued boards?

[mcurphy]

Long story short: my mobo fried and I need a replacement with the same raid controller to increase my chances of recovering my non-backed-up data that's on two drives set in raid 0.

I am having an extremely hard time finding this specific board. I've tried eBay, Pricewatch, Google, Froogle, Bizrate, and a few other shopping search engines.

Are there any good places where you can find old discontinued boards? The socket 478 boards aren't THAT old are they? It seems like only a year or two and they have vanished from the face of the earth.

I have found a couple similar GigaByte boards that were released around the same time and have the raid controller I need, but ideally, I would really like to use the same board.

Thanks!

Mcurphy

 

[nitromullet]

I can't find that mobo either, but you might not need the identical RAID controller. I used to have an Asus A8N-SLI Premium with a Silicon Image and NVRAID (SATA) controller. I could move my array back and forth between them without any issues or data loss. I actually did it by accident the first time, which is how I found this out. It eventually came in pretty handy because Ghost wouldn't recognize the NVRAID array, but it would recognize the Sil one.

Good luck with that.

 

[mcurphy]

Thanks for the reply, that is great news to hear that you have had success moving your array. I am pretty sure I can at least find a board that has the same controller so that should only increase my chances of having a successful swap.

Just thought I'd do a quick query to the forum as a last ditch effort to see if anyone knew of any sites I may be overlooking to find the exact same board.