Quote Originally Posted by BeepBeep2 View Post
lol you wont lose any performance in 8x/8x dont worry.

Unless you have a highly OC/ed GTX295 or 5970 it's not gonna be a problem.

The slots are in "8x/8x" but the second slot just steals the first's bandwidth so to speak. If your RAID controller card doesnt suck up all the bandwidth you should be fine. (You would be fine anyway)

Also, 4x would bottleneck the RAID card depending on how fast/how many the drives are etc.
The raid controller should be an LSI 8404E w/ 256MB DDR2

ARRAY 1 (RAID 0)
2x Maxtor 250GB 7200rpm 16MB Cache SATAII (formatted to 320GB) with the other partition for Linux

ARRAY 2 (RAID 5)
3x Western Digtial 750GB Black 7200rpm 32MB Cache SATA II