A couple of weeks ago I purchased an Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe nForce2 Ultra 400
motherboard, and recently discovered that it can only do RAID with SATA, not
IDE hard-drives, which I was told they could do at the time of purchase.

After contacting the company, they said they realized I had given me
erroneous information, and would be happy to provide me with a GIGABYTE
GA-7N400 PRO2, which does allow IDE RAID.

There does not seem to be too many (if any) differences between the two
mobos, except some Asus WiFi thing on the Asus mobo. Does anybody know of
any other differences - quality of board, upgradability etc?

And if I get the new motherboard, it's going to take a good part of the day
reinstalling everything.

Should I stay with the Asus and go for SATA RAID, or go for the slightly
cheaper Gigabyte mobo?

What are people's experiences with these two mobos?

Thanks in advance!

Simon.

I'd would consider a RAID controller board before switching. I have had very
good experiences with the HighPoint controller board.
Speed depends on the drive more that the controller board.
JPS
"simon_c" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> A couple of weeks ago I purchased an Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe nForce2 Ultra 400
> motherboard, and recently discovered that it can only do RAID with SATA,
not
> IDE hard-drives, which I was told they could do at the time of purchase.
>
> After contacting the company, they said they realized I had given me
> erroneous information, and would be happy to provide me with a GIGABYTE
> GA-7N400 PRO2, which does allow IDE RAID.
>
> There does not seem to be too many (if any) differences between the two
> mobos, except some Asus WiFi thing on the Asus mobo. Does anybody know of
> any other differences - quality of board, upgradability etc?
>
> And if I get the new motherboard, it's going to take a good part of the
day
> reinstalling everything.
>
> Should I stay with the Asus and go for SATA RAID, or go for the slightly
> cheaper Gigabyte mobo?
>
> What are people's experiences with these two mobos?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Simon.
>
>

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 00:46:20 GMT, "jpsga" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I'd would consider a RAID controller board before switching. I have had very
>good experiences with the HighPoint controller board.
>Speed depends on the drive more that the controller board.
>JPS


Good advice... that also allows moving the array to a different
motherboard, should you want/need to.

I dont think so, the raid card is 2x price of the mb, and unless you use the
same chipset, good luck getting xp to run correctly
"kony" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 00:46:20 GMT, "jpsga" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> >I'd would consider a RAID controller board before switching. I have had
very
> >good experiences with the HighPoint controller board.
> >Speed depends on the drive more that the controller board.
> >JPS
>
>
> Good advice... that also allows moving the array to a different
> motherboard, should you want/need to.

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 03:42:53 GMT, "Paul L"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I dont think so, the raid card is 2x price of the mb, and unless you use the
>same chipset, good luck getting xp to run correctly

Hardly.

RAID cards can be had for $17, it has nothing to do with same chipset
as it applies here, which was only a question of whether to switch
boards to GET the onboard raid, or rather to keep same chipset.

It is not difficult to get XP running with a different chipset, a RAID
card, or whatever... don't let XP lull you into a daze, take control
of your PC and learn how to configure it.

"kony" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 03:42:53 GMT, "Paul L"
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> >I dont think so, the raid card is 2x price of the mb, and unless you use
the
> >same chipset, good luck getting xp to run correctly
>
> Hardly.
>
> RAID cards can be had for $17, it has nothing to do with same chipset
> as it applies here, which was only a question of whether to switch
> boards to GET the onboard raid, or rather to keep same chipset.
>
> It is not difficult to get XP running with a different chipset, a RAID
> card, or whatever... don't let XP lull you into a daze, take control
> of your PC and learn how to configure it.
>
what can I tell you, 2 years ago they were about $100, they have come down
quite a bit

I was referring to the mb chipset, not the raid card

sometimes it works, other times it doesn't. I wouldn't recommend it