On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 04:20:43 GMT, "Noozer"
wrote:

System will have GBit ethernet for sure.

Onboard controllers which use their own chip, not a southbridge
integral feature, ARE on the PCI bus. There is no gain to having
such an integral chip rather than it sitting on a PCI card. It
is exactly the same situation if it were placed in same PCI slot
such that it had same IRQ.

My Asus P4C800E has the Intel Raid controller (as well as a Promise
controller) and the Intel part doesn't utilize the PCI bus. I was hoping
another higher end board might have taken this farther.

What I'm looking at now is: http://www.raidcore.net/RC4000DataSheet_2.pdf

In this Lian Li chassis....
http://www.lian-li.com/product.php?a...wPD&prdid=1210


...assuming I can find suppliers for them.


Intel does have southbridge raid, but never RAID5 AFAIK. It
would seem you are forced to use a PCI bus based solution, as
with what you linked. It is PCI-X though, you didn't distinguish
what mainboard you're looking to use, nor the budget. I deal
primarily with PCs also, am certainly not the best person to
advise on RAID5.