Thoughts on RAID controllers on ASUS vs. Gigabyte MBs

[Aidan]

Have come down to two motherboards to choose from in my new system and I
seem to have hit a wall. As far as performance goes with the onboard RAID
(most likely mode 0 for use in graphics work) which would you choose and
why? ASUS A7N8X Deluxe or the Gigabyte GA-7NNXP. Any thoughts will be much
appreciated. So far the rest of the system looks like this....

AMD Athlon XP 2700+
1GB Corsair XMS PC3200
2 WD Raptor 36GB HDDs in a RAID 0 array
Matrox G550 Dual Head video card
Maxtor 120GB USB 2.0/Firewire external HDD for backup
Assorted CD and CDRW Drives
All in an Antec 1080 Case with 420W Power Supply
Running Windows XP Pro


Thanks much,

Aidan

 

[John Yuen]

Drop the raptor and use the money get a P4 2.8 with Hyperthreading on a Intel
875 chipset with ICH5R (SATA RAID 0) mobo and you will see more day to day
speed improvement. The Pefformance boost of the raptor is only felt during
program load while the P4 2.8 HT will bosst performance across the board.

Regards
John Yuen

 

[Aidan]

Actually decided to do that same thing last night, still sticking with the 2
Raptors for the speed and the 5 year warranty but i'm going with the P4
2.8Ghz and a Gigabyte 8KNXP Mobo now. The question is, do I use the RAID
controller on native to the chipset (875) or do I use the Silicon Image
controller that is also an option? I've heard a bit more about the Silicon
Image lately and most of the wonderful benchmarks for this drive have been
done with that controller.

Aidan

 

[John Yuen]

I'm using the GA-8IK100 and am using the onboard ICH5R with a pair of Seagate
120GB. Have not run any benchmark yet though.

Regards
John Yuen