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looking for a Sandybridge mobo with:

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SteelSampson

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I'm waiting on upgrading my CPU/mobo because I'm unable to find a 1155 base chipset that has enough of the features of this 1366 board:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128472

# 1 feature I'm looking for is a decent RAID controller.
# 2 feature a good onboard LAN/Net card


1.So are there any 1155 chipsets that offer the same(or better) Marvell ...1982 controller?
2. If not should I just wait for the x79s to come out? or is there a reasonably priced hardware alternative PCI-e controller that someone would recommend for a Sandybridge build?

P.S. I also have a 6990+6970 tri-fire setup so enough PCI-e lanes are a must.

TY!
 
What's your budget? The Gigabyte Sniper motherboard has the Bigfoot LAN and X-Fi audio onboard.

There's also the Asus Maximus.
 
SteelSampson said:
Thnx... yeah the most important thing to me is the RAID controller.
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No onboard raid is going to be 'great' but it really comes down to what you need. If you need a setup that lets you do some striping or mirroring for work your doing at home, then Intel Raid is fine for that. If you need some serious workstation/server performance, then you want a dedicated card with it's own onboard processing. Dedicated RAID cards like that are a few hundred dollars and up.

Lets put it this way, if you don't know what you need then Intel raid is enough. If what you were doing required anything better, you wouldn't be asking what raid should I buy.
 
Pretty much what bigdogchris said:

If you're just doing simple RAID 1 or RAID 0, you'll be fine with the ICH10R storage controller found on many Intel based motherboards these days. However for being an motherboard's onboard storage/RAID controller, it's ok for RAID 5 as long as you're not looking for performance at all (i.e greater than 20MB/s to 40MB/s transfer rate). In fact, IIRC, the ICH10R is one of the better motherboard onboard RAID solutions if you're using Windows. If you're planning on using Windows and want a fast or high performance RAID 5 or higher level RAID setup, you're pretty much looking at a dedicated true hardware RAID card. And yes they do start out at around $200 to $300 and up depending on how many ports/drives you want. Then there's the small chance of incompatibility with either the drives or motherboard you're using.

As for the NIC, just make sure whatever mobo you have comes with an Intel NIC. Intel NIC tend to be a bit faster and more reliable than the Realtek NICs you see on a lot of motherboards these days.
 
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