newegg's soltek motherboard listing

[hawkeye_wx]

I can't see any difference between the $105 nforce2 soltek motherboard at the bottom of newegg's soltek listing and the $95 nforce2 motherboard three spots above. Can anyone help out?

 

[drewthomas14]

the $95 dollar one has serial ata raid and an extra ide port to add an ide harddrive to the raid too. i dont know why it is less and has more features.

 

[mattspalace]

It's because everyone is buying the Non-SATA Raid version and driving the demand up (it's the board all the websites are reviewing). The one with raid overclocks and performs just as well as the other, and I oughta know..
Save yourself 10 dollars, get some extra features, and overclock your heart out.

 

[hawkeye_wx]

I assume my non-serial ata 100 hard drive will work just as well with the sata board?

 

[mattspalace]

From what I've seen so far, 200fsb right out of the box is no problem for either of these, and the non-sata is the one most sites are reviewing.

The FRN2-RL has 3 IDE slots, so it will work fine.

 

[Penance]

Can this really be a good OCing board? Is there an unadvertised volt mod somewhere? seems pointless to let the fsb go so high, then BIOS won't let you tweak voltages.

 

[mattspalace]

1.85 is the highest voltage one is allowed to overclock the CPU, which is probably the only downside to this board. I wouldn't go any higher than 1.85v anyway, as it starts to dramatically shorten the life of the CPU (unless water cooling is involved).
Haven't heard of a volt mod, but wouldn't surprise me to see one show up one day.