Quote Originally Posted by Leeghoofd View Post
They just replace them with X38, also I ordered a P5K DLX for friend , my shop never could get it ( Cloetens main importer doesn't even have them on the list anymore)...

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Well, yeah, X38 looks good too.
Though, I read that the X38 chipset wasn't as good an overclocker as the P35, and what makes me hesitate even more is that Intel already plans on replacing the X38 in something like 3 months... :/

Concerning the P5K Deluxe, my usual computer shop told me the Deluxe was actually getting replaced by the Premium. That would be the reason why the Deluxe is disappearing from the vendor's shelves.

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Quote Originally Posted by sesdave View Post
Before switching to SATA 1 try switching to IDE as previously mentioned. I wouldn't have thought that you would see that much of a performance difference with IDE against AHCI on your drives.. AHCI and especially RAID 0 look great in HD tune/TACH tests but I have read numerous reports that they make little difference to IDE in real world application loading speeds.

Yup, I know there's not much differences in usual real world applications.
Though, as this computer is also my workstation for professional multimedia works, I planned on using RAID 0 for media applications and treatment, and RAID 1 for sensitive data.

Even then... buying a RAID board which can't work in RAID mode... sounds disappointing