Seeing everyone with their AXIA tbirds makes me want to upgrade but my 8kta+ that has the KT133 chipset so the max I would be able to oc a 1ghz t-bird is 1.3 ghz (12.5*104). To me this isn't worthwhile if I can't push the cpu to the limit so I was thinking of doing a mb/cpu upgrade (only 3 months after I upgraded my current system). I would like use at least 5 IDE drives (40GB HD, 17 GB HD backup, DVD, CDRW, ZIP) so I was thinking of getting a mb with RAID. My question is since I do not plan to use a RAID setup, with the RAID controller just act as an additional 2 ATA-100 controllers. If so, technically, I can have 8 drives. Right?