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    Board recommendation

    I need a tiny bit of help: I'm looking for a motherboard with an Intel ICH*R controller - I'm only going to use it to recover hdd's from another system with a dead motherboard so not looking to spend a lot on this board as it will be setup, used to recover the hdd's to alternate media and then shutdown...

    (The hdd's are a RAID 0 set so need a compatible controller to recover the raid set as raid 0 has no fault tolerance...)

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    Re: Board recommendation

    Quote Originally Posted by Arimus View Post
    I need a tiny bit of help: I'm looking for a motherboard with an Intel ICH*R controller - I'm only going to use it to recover hdd's from another system with a dead motherboard so not looking to spend a lot on this board as it will be setup, used to recover the hdd's to alternate media and then shutdown...

    (The hdd's are a RAID 0 set so need a compatible controller to recover the raid set as raid 0 has no fault tolerance...)
    Recovering a RAID is almost impossible without the orignal chip at hand. (Almost) May I enquire as to what happened to the orignal board with the RAID controller? If you can recover this board your job will be much easier.
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    Re: Board recommendation

    Intel make a point that you can move raid arrays between other boards with the IMS compatible chipsets.

    The other board is in a eurocomm d90x which has died; won't power up; won't do anything. Its either the m/board or CPU but leaning towards the motherboard as occasionally she'll just about pass bios then shutdown.

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    Re: Board recommendation

    Quote Originally Posted by nightkhaos View Post
    Recovering a RAID is almost impossible without the orignal chip at hand. (Almost)
    No its not if the RAID was made on ICH6R it can be seen on ICH10R its Backward compatible.

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    Re: Board recommendation

    Quote Originally Posted by LegacyOne View Post
    No its not if the RAID was made on ICH6R it can be seen on ICH10R its Backward compatible.
    Things have changed!

    Right... so I take it OP, that you want an el-cheapo so you can just recover your RAID and be done with it?
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    Re: Board recommendation

    Yup; I've got a 4870 Gfx card so it will need to support PCI-E slots, my existing memory is OCZ GOLD DDR2 PC2-8500C5 (1066MHz) so might need to pick up some cheep 1GB memory... will need minimum of 3 SATA ports as its two HDD's to recover and a new hdd to boot/recover to.

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    Re: Board recommendation

    Your existing RAM is fine unless you want to add more.

    You can go as low as Gigabyte GA-EP43-DS3LR maybe lower....
    http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Gigab...-SATA-RAID-ATX

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    Re: Board recommendation

    Thanks for that; it will do the job nicely and let me test the cpu in my laptop proving once and for all which bit is fried...

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    Re: Board recommendation

    Quote Originally Posted by Arimus View Post
    Thanks for that; it will do the job nicely and let me test the cpu in my laptop proving once and for all which bit is fried...
    laptops use a different Socket...

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    Re: Board recommendation

    Not this one; Q6600 LGA775... just need a heatsink for it...

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