any chance of speeding up the boot up time on jmicron raid for the ex58 extreme? i was able to borrow my old msi eclipse and did try to setup the HW raid on both eclipse and extreme and i clocked that the eclipse is around 3-5 secs faster than the extreme Also I attached the silent pipe and my IOH cooling is pretty good but i am not happy with the build in sound of the giga board so i am planning to buy xfi platinum pcie. I can put that in the last x16 slot ( configure as x8 ) right ? or is there another driver aside from realtek ( of there are any 3rd party driver that works with vista 64 please ) that can improve the sound quality of this board ( well to save some cost on my part ).


my setup
ex58 extreme - f8b
i7 920 cooled by hr01+
g skill 3 x 2 gig ddr3 1600 8-8-8-21 1.6v
MSI gtx275
2 x 74gb WD raptor 10k rpm 16mb cache -- raid 0 via HW raid
1 tb + 640 gb WD black for data and games
700W PSU