Need Advice on a Mobo supporting Athlon 3000+ with RAID

[KwikEMartGuy]

Hi, I've been researching this topic on and off for a few days now, and need your advice:

I'd like a RAID 5 Setup to go with my AMD Athlon 64 3000+ CPU.

I almost bought a Chaintech ZNF 150, but after visiting www.amdmb.com forums, it seemed like a lot of people got bad chaintech boards (seems like their QA isn't very good).

Also, is RAID 5 on mobos worth it? Is it any good?? (3ware RAID cards cost hundreds of dollars for a reason).

Or should I just buy 3 drives, put my OS and /tmp on 2 drives with RAID 0, and my important documents on the third drive. (and just back that up once in a while). Also, I was thinking about buying 3 SATA drives, I am wondering if I should just stick to 3 IDE drives. Because, it's not hard to saturate the PCI bus anyway.

Also, I might be thinking about overclocking, so a board that's OC friendly would be good too..

Anyone here have a Athlon 64 board? What have your (or your friend's) experience been like???

I am thinking about <= $200 for a board....

Thanks a lot in advance for your input.

 

[Red]

msi K8t neo $130ish

 

[KwikEMartGuy]

Thanks, hmm...

does anyone run RAID 5 here? RAID 5 feature is more important than Overclocking.

This the priority in my mind:

Stability & Chances of me getting a good board w/o RMAing (DEFINATELY)
RAID 5 (w/ SATA drives) (would be pretty cool)
Overclocking (mayyyybe)

 

[Regs]

Any A64 motherboard with a integrated promise fastrack raid controller will suite you well.