Building a new server - Abit KR7A-R or another board?

[Hawkes]

I'm getting ready to build out a new server for home. I plan to use an AMD Athlon XP, and HAVE to have RAID (plan on mirroring a pair of 120g drives).

Overclocking is NOT necesary at all, but stability IS. I'm leaning towards going with the Abit KR7A-R with a 512M stick of Kingston DDR2100.

Can anyone offer any reasons I should look at boards other than this? www.mwave.com has a bundle of the Abit KR7A, XP 1600+ and Kingston 512M DDR2100 for $271.79 - anyone know of a better price on this combo than that?

 

[Mark0999]

Good price! Good board.

BTW... check out my buyers guide for motherboard bundles.

Abit KR7A-RAID
Athlon XP 1600+
2x 256MB PC2100 DDR (Kingston)
TT Volcano 7 HSF

for $269 (w/ 2 yr warranty)

 

[Damascus]

What kind of server is this going to be? You might want to look at the Tualatin Celeron's
because they run really cool (won't need any extravagantly loud cooling setups) and
give good performance. Toss in 512MB SDRAM and an i815-based mATX board and you
could have a good setup.