Decisions Decisions..

[ProXie]

Well I decided to go with AMD this time and I'm looking around at different motherboards. I want to game on the computer and I want to get nice performance obviously ..

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-127-167&depa=1

Onboard SATA/RAID: 2x Serial ATA 150, RAID 0/1
Onboard 1394: 3 Ports

What are the benefits of RAID? I'm not sure how it works. Can someone fill me in? Is this a good choice for a motherboard? Will overclocking be easy? I'm planning on doing a small OC.

 

[Kingofl337]

I would have gotten a NF7-S v2. But, this could be a descent board. RAID 0 will help if you stripe two drives together. Will help with load/boot time. Only trouble with it is if you loose one drive you loose data on both. I actually have SATA to IDE adapters running a pair of IDE Maxtors striped together in RAID 0 on a SATA controler.

Well I did before I sold my IC7-Max3.

 

[dream caster]

Well I decided to go with AMD this time and I'm looking around at different motherboards. I want to game on the computer and I want to get nice performance obviously ..

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-127-167&depa=1


What are the benefits of RAID? I'm not sure how it works. Can someone fill me in? Is this a good choice for a motherboard? Will overclocking be easy? I'm planning on doing a small OC.

you get better hard disk performance at the cost of some more CPU use to combine simultaneous work of two disks; in my old KT7 RAID it was not worthwhile during latest games (Freespace2); I needed all CPU juice for graphics. Some guys tell that their overclock is better without RAID.

 

[ProXie]

OK thanks guys.