X38 and Areca cards

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Does anything change if you plug either or both of the floppy connectors in on the board?

here is another solution for the DFI X38 board:

i plugged my 8800 GTS in the 2nd PCIe slot and then plugged my Areca 1210 card into the 1st PCIe slot with no addtional 5/12v power plugged in...everything is booting fine.

it's the weirdest thing...don't really see any real tweak areca performance going from 4x to 8x performance...maybe the burst speed is getting a little boost...that is all i can tell from looking at HDTach bench.