Abit NF7-S V1.2 some questions

[Paul.K]

Hi all,


I'm just so jealous of the bandwidth you's gus have been getting with your Abit NF7-S motherboards. At the moment I'm running my main gaming rig on a Abit AT7Max2 mobo with a watercooling DD based system. Now I cant overclock by FSB at all since my Radeon 9700 pro gives me lockups at 172FSB using XMS PC3200 RAM. Bloody 1/5 divider Will the NF7-S allow me to reach 200FSB? without my 9700 crapping out..

Now I've taken the plunge and bought myself an Abit NF7-S Ver 1.2 and 2 sticks of Corsair XMS PC3500 5ns RAM. I am wondering if any of you's have been using SATA for a RAID 0 setup? Any issues ? etc.... Since I'll be getting one IDE/SATA convertor with the mobo and I already have one from the AT7MAX2 i thought i'd try this out first before buying a RAID controller card.

Any info concerning this mobo would be great.

First time with a Nvidia chipset...

Thanks all in advance,

Paul..

[atrayu]

If your going to go with Raid then save yourself a ton of headaches and get a proper Raid controller card. There are major, major issues with data corruption using the SATA controller and adapter with these boards and it appears worse for those using raid.

Now I have one harddrive, not my main though, on the SATA controller using Abit's converter and have yet to notice any problems, but I would not set up my OS using the Sata controllers knowing what I do now and I'm glad I decided not to initially.

Read this thread from the boards over at Abit's site http://forum.abit-usa.com/showthread.php?threadid=3957

[Paul.K]

Thanks for your info... will check it out..

Paul.

[mdzcpa]

I've had great success with an inexpensive but effective Highpoint ATA 133 Rocket RAID card on the NF2 boards. RAID 0 works great:)

[althes]

Promise Raid card is also very good. I have one it works like a charm.