Quote Originally Posted by Talonman View Post
Care to spoon feed a newbie?

First time building a system from scratch, and super weak on the BIOS and initial install stuff.

So I have 2 Raptor 150's I want to run in Raid 0 for OS and Games.

I also want to run Vista Ultimate and my 4GB of ram.

My Maximus SE is in the INTEL club, so running Matrix raid is an option for me.

Can you give me a direct link to the file I need to have on my flash drive to set this up.

When installing this with Vista Ultimate, are my install steps different?

Would I want to make the boot partition bigger than 25GB due to Vista, and still use a 64k stripe size?
The remaining portion of my 2 150's will be ran in RAID 0.

Thanks for any help.

Go with a 32k stripe size and if you're using Vista Ultimate, make it at least 40GB. SP1 for Vista is rumored at requiring 12GB of free space on the OS drive!

I made a 35GB partition and I'm going to have to rebuild when SP1 comes.

I'm going 45 GB next time. Fing ridiculous if you ask me.