Mobo help

Im rebuilding my current rig with a Q6600 to replace an FX-60. No SLI.

I need to choose a mobo...

I have two of these:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136012

I am rebuilding this myself (friend built 1st time is too busy to help) and have no experience so it's going to be a learning experience all the way thru...

Im planning on doing some mid-range overclocking (no experience there either) to 3.0ghz.

I think I have it down to these two boards:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128337

or

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813136043

They both seem pretty good...

I believe my current setup has my two HDD's in RAID. It says: NVIDIA stripe Nforce raid class controller.

My question is will I be able to setup raid on the Gigabyte board? It seems from what I have read the answer is no but someone said something about software raid being ok. What are my choices to set up my HDD's on both of these? Also, I have a 7900gtx and a soundblaster pci card... will that be ok on these mobo's? I see they have 3 pci but each has only one 16x... is that just for graphics cards?

I need to pick a mobo so I can look at cooling options and what will fit/be easy to install...

bump

The DFI LP DK P35-T2RS has raid, the Gigabyte DS3L does not !
The rest from your old rig (video card and SB) are compatible with the above mentioned boards.

Gigabyte and DFI both have like 4 levels of boards. You're comparing the lowest Gigabyte to the second lowest DFI (not saying "low" is bad, just making a point). I consider DFI a step up from Gigabyte, so that's a double whammy. I'd take your DFI choice.

Robert

No doubt, the DFi is a good overclocker, and is beter for the RAID you have planned to do.