|  Onboard RAID with a promise PDC20276 capable of doing data stripping in RAID 0 or mirroring in RAID. Also there is SATA support yes you've heard it right SATA but for the 7VAXP only which uses the Onboard SiS Sil3112a controller same raid features and is capable of UDMA upto 150 MB/sec but can only support 2 SATA devices as a draw back. The cables are all included and ready for your building needs. Opening the box I came apon bumper stickers, which are kewl and all lol but Also a big sheet telling you how to build a system step by step with pictures that even a monkey could do it. A fine manuel that I found was lacking certain info to it's full capability. This board also loves overclocking which I find great, you can use the dip swithes to set the multiplier and the range of FSB on the motherboard. In the bios you can control the FSB and you're told underneath what the PCI and AGP bus is been increase too so you get an idea of how high you should go. A pet peeve about the overclocking I found is the voltage control for the Core, DDR memory and AGP are done in percentage ie. 5%, 7.5% and 10% which are rediculous since your using increments of .01. But AUTO seems to adjust it well also to compensate for it's needs. One big issue I found for the power user or the expierence user to configure his bios settings to the best is the advanced options are hidden underbeath a menu. Thats why I said the motherboardmanual was abit short on info. Actually all you need to do is a shourcut combo of CTRL + F1 and there you go memory settings, advanced chipset feratures tab shows up. Apart from this the board has a colour coding sceme which I find great with todays standards. The labelling on the board is great cuz you know what you have without having to nit pick through the manual. |
| This motherboard likes good memory not generic vendor stuff. Kingston, OCZ, Corsair, Curcial. But when you are using DDR Pc-3200 memory the draw back is only 2 sticks are allowed. Also via had a flaw on the chipset with it's first version of the KT400 where in benchmarks DDR 333 would outperform in benchmarks in speeds comparing to DDR 400. This has been a fixed issue which clearly shows why they add an (A) to it lol like KT133A and such. Also the plague Creative Sound Blaster cards and Audigy's are compatible now with it so disabling. | PCI Delay Transaction is no more required or getting a special driver fix from via arena or pardon me a fool called George Breece to resolve the issue. What is really great about this motherboard is it can take memory, hard-drives, cpu's from the old durons and thunderbirds from AMD. To now the new duron's and the Athlon XP 3200+ as long as the front side bus is not over 333. In summary this board is great for people on a budget has all the onboard you need, although I'd recommend getting a good PCI sound card because the onboard 6 channel audio isn't quite great in my opinion. No bass and Trebble adjustments just the minimums. But for everything else to the uptodate technologies, and people that don't want to just upgrade yet to the AMD 64 bit processors or the new PCI-X technology which can punch a hole in your pocket i'd say get this for the time being. | 
