Socket 1155 Mainboard - Best controllers/reliability

poxxxy

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Apr 26, 2013
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Hi everyone,

I am looking for a replacement to my Sabertooth P67 which is due to be sent back under RMA after experiencing a few problems.

I will be running my 2 * Mushkin Chronos Deluxe SSD's in Raid 0 and would like the fastest boot possible.

What is the best Raid controller available built in to the mainboard? I have been potentially looking at an ASRock Extreme11 or Gigabyte Z77-XUP7 at the top end of the scale but I do not need the masses of SATA ports. I am not fussed about the size of the mainboard, i'll consider M-ATX upto E-ATX, prefer a black board that doesn't look cheap :). I've considered a sabertooth Z77 also but struggling to decide on what to go for!
 
You might consider a separate controller card such as this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816124048.
Here's a smaller board that might be ok if you don't overclock: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157306.