Will RAID PCI card work as well as onboard

[siranthony]

I can't find the 875/865 MB I want with onboard IDE raid. I was going to go with the gigabyte but I hear they are not very overclockable (PCI/AGP lock does not work). If I got the IC7 and added an ATA133 raid PCI card, would that work as well as an onboard solution?

Thanks

 

[Crashman]

Yes. Onboard IDE controllers are simply PCI devices without the slot.

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[siranthony]

Thanks

 

[GhislainG]

Why do you need to use IDE instead of SATA disks? If you went with SATA disks, you could use a faster PCIe raid controller.