Best Intel RAID board?

[Jon]

I'm considering a new mobo and was curious as to what you guys think is the best Intel board out there for overclocking that has onboard RAID. Would prefer no integrated video/audio solutions as well.

Will be running P3 700 FCPGA on it at (hopefully) 933 with 2 7200 rpm HDs, Soundblaster X-Gamer, Geforce 256 DDR, D-Link 10/100 NIC, Rockwell PCI modem, 256 MB Micron 133 RAM, DVD, and 52X CDROM.

I currently have all this in a Soyo 7VCA with a RAID controller, and as this board has been very good to me, the memory benches suck and I really want to drop it in my other PC as it could run the Celly 2 533 I have in there now at 800 and the Tyan board will not for some reason. My secondary PC will basically be the same system I have now only with a Celly 2 running at 800.

Thanks for all the opinions.

P.S.

Am considering the ABIT BX-133 RAID. What do you guys think of this one?

 

[surlyjoe]

IMHO the Iwill vd133 pro ,is the best bang for the buck as far as a raid board goes , it lacks a robust v-core adjustment ,but that is a simple work around with pin wrapping if 10% increase isnt enough for you

 

[Daniel ~]

Unless your short of PCI slots I wouldn't pick a MB on the bases of it's raid capability, I'd go for the best O/C'er I could find and use a promise Ultra AtA 100 card and modify it to a raid card $25.00 + $1.00 for mod parts":O} I personally thinkRAID is very over praised. But If you need the slots the Surlyjoe made as good a suggestion as I can think of. ......Just my 2 cents":O}

 

[Jon]

I already have a RAID card but with my vid card with it's monstrous heatsink/fan set up, blocks a PCI slot and they are all full at that point. I may be able to free one up once I move and am able to remove my modem once again.

Was just curious as to whether there were any really good overclockable RAID boards out there. I also like the idea of being able to plug in up to 8 IDE devices directly to the board. I have normally 3 HDs and 2 CD\DVD ROMS, so having one controller for almost every device is always nice.

 

[Tachyon]

If you want an 815E solution, I'd recommend the Abit SA6R. They are stable and very overclockable.

 

[chris]

I'd have to say the BX133 Raid, I have it and love it. If the 1/2 AGP divider isnt really a problem to you then I recommend it 100%