You might want to make sure that the Soyo or Gigabye, whichever you choose, can set the PCI bus clock back to the normal 33MHz (or close to it)when the FSB is overclocked to the speed you desire.... an oddball PCI clock speed may cause unpredictable results with some soundcards.

Regarding the embedded raid controller not being able to do raid0+1, that's an artificial limit dictated by Promise and maybe also Highpoint too, imposed upon the mobo makers who use their raid chips. The greedy bastages want to only offer such "advanced" raid functions when you buy their branded raid cards, so they enforce these limits in the licensing of their technology to the mobo makers.

Sheesh, what's with this "RO Super Member" now on all my posts. Gee I feel special now, kinda like when Navin Johnson saw his name printed in the new phonebook. :p

"what's with this "RO Super Member" now on all my posts. Gee I feel special now"

Easy there, big fella - it's actually some cause for concern, just means that now you can be killed with Kryptonite... :=) (and whether or not you show your "Big Red S" out in public is up to you...)

All seriousness or less I guess, I downloaded 4 different Mobo manuals with onboard raid, Abit, Soyo, Gigabyte, and I think one other abit - two had Promise chips, two had Hi-Point chips, and both of the Promise equipped boards didn't allow 0+1, while both of the Hi-Point equipped ones DID. Like I said above, the more I think about various reported results, the more it seems to be a moot point. Plus, with 6 PCI slots and most necessities on the Mobo, there would still be room for a separate controller card if necessary. I am figuring on 3 slots for audio at most, one for a SCSI controller (15krpm video drive, later) a USB2/1394 combo adapter when they exist, and a spare (if I need an outboard IDE raid to do all I want) Sure glad I'm planning on that PC Power/Cooling 600 watter, what with at least a gig of ram, 8-9 HDD's, full PCI slots, 4-5 extra fans... I have a hard copy of the Soyo manual, since their site couldn't help me - one thing I noticed was that the board appears to be super flexible on just about every clock/voltage/multiplier that exists. I need to read it a few more times to be sure, thanks for the reminder on PCI vs. audio cards.

Gotta go, been talkin' to Stedel and embarrassed meself, told 'im I was headed for the Fairlight site, which I am... Steve

Originally posted by knightfly:
As long as I don't ever buy a Mobo from the same guys SOS gets his stuff from, it'll probably be fine... :=)

Gee, thanks, I feel SO much better now.
(SOS goes back to his corner in the fetal position)

Bug confirmed when exporting a file from Nuendo off of a SCSI drive attached to a PCI SCSI controller to the same drive....major corruption of the project!! Causes the system to crash or hang just like it states in the errata!!!
DOH!!! thank god I went for the 845!
Opus :D