Quote Originally Posted by tipes View Post
Hi Rev,

Sorry the F5G does not fix double start issue at least not for me. Have yet to find bios that does while oc.

Btw is the Areca card worth having for Raid rather than on board - much better performance???? May be interested in getting an areca myself.

Mark
Hi - ok, thanks.. from the looks of things I might give F6c a go (thanks Alcibiades for your input on that)...

as for the Areca card... it's a decent card, great vista64 driver support, 256mb ddr2 (so would be great for SSD raid) but my two raptor-x's are only SATA1 so I am not pushing the card very hard I think... I get 160mb/s sustained reads... as a pci-e 1x the best BW I will ever get out of it is 250mb/s or so.. I kind of wonder how well it would do with a pair of fast SATA2 drives on it.. anyways, it's a decent card but not sure how much better it would be than the intel ICH10R.. I like having my OS on an external raid card so I can transplant the system onto a new board quickly if I need to.. it's saved me several times in the past so I just have been in the habit of doing that.