Cheap AMD motherboard with RAID? [Archive]

SpoofyChop

09-05-2003, 06:59 AM

I've been going over the various sites looking at cheap MBs for my Athlon XP 2200. I've been at least considering attempting to solve my problems by partially rebuilding my system.

I really don't want to get anything too fancy. The Athlon is a 266 FSB CPU if I remember and I've only got PC2100 DDR. I really would love to get RAID working though.

At this point I'm not even sure which companies are considered to produce reliable and stable MBs.

How about this one:

http://secure.newegg.com/app/specification.asp?item=13-150-023

or this

http://secure.newegg.com/app/specification.asp?item=13-133-005

Any other suggestions?

Case

09-05-2003, 07:03 AM

I've been going over the various sites looking at cheap MBs for my Athlon XP 2200. I've been at least considering attempting to solve my problems by partially rebuilding my system.

I really don't want to get anything too fancy. The Athlon is a 266 FSB CPU if I remember and I've only got PC2100 DDR. I really would love to get RAID working though.

At this point I'm not even sure which companies are considered to produce reliable and stable MBs.

How about this one:

http://secure.newegg.com/app/specification.asp?item=13-150-023

or this

http://secure.newegg.com/app/specification.asp?item=13-133-005

Any other suggestions?

The first one you list isn't Nforce2, it's a VIA KT333 chipset -- you might consider avoiding it.

I believe DFI makes a low-cost NF2 board with RAID that's listed on Newegg.

SpoofyChop

09-05-2003, 07:54 AM

The first one you list isn't Nforce2, it's a VIA KT333 chipset -- you might consider avoiding it.

I believe DFI makes a low-cost NF2 board with RAID that's listed on Newegg.

Actually I changed my mind halfway through my post.

:D

I wouldn't mind forgoing nForce2 in favor of RAID.

I'll check out the DFI board too!

Thanks Lloyd.

Aleck

09-05-2003, 08:35 PM

You can also try to track one of these down:

Abit NV7-133R (http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=567687/search=abit%20nv7/ut=425ca3327cfe3912)

I'm using one, and very happy with it.

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