I personnaly think:
1 x Asus P5W DH Deluxe Intel 975X Retail
That was a better choice... but that's my opinion... I think there are some glitches with NF4 Chipset for intel, but since i am not on an intel CPU, i can't say (i got an AMD Athlon64 FX-57)...
You now have 2 gb of ram, and tell me... if you buy only one raptor drive, you aren't getting any improvement on a basic raid configuration... you would get faster speed with 2 normal 7200rpm 80gb hard drive than with one single 74gb raptor... for the same price... so, why bother? Raptor are used to get speed over traditional drives, of course any pair of raptor will be faster in raid than any other pair of drives in raid... but, they cost a lot, and don't offer great storage... if you only want 1 raptor drive, and don't plan any future upgrade, then it would be wiser to grab 2 normal 7200rpm drive and raid-0 them out... for the same price, you would have the same speed, and twice the storage...
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