best mobo

HI, I'm building a machine and I am going to use a Pentium4 2.53ghz processor and I wanted to know what would be the best board, I have up to $200 to spend on the board.
I think I will go with RDRAM. I would like a mobo with built-in raid, and will also let me overclock.



{parts I'm going to use}
Pentium4 2.53ghz
Radeon 9700Pro
2x 80gb WD's w/8mb cache
Soundblaster Audigy
8fans
Pioneer DVD-R103
<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by raging_redneck on 11/13/02 05:18 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

2 choices i would make are:

for RDRAM the gigabyte 8-ihxp
for DDR RAM asus 8PE667 or 8SG667

(hope i'm right on those productnumbers)

i' dont thnk you can find a better performing platform at this time, however and this was exciting for me to read
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00:36 EST [David]
Iwill Will Soon Announce Their New P4GB Featuring The Intel (Granite Bay) E7205 Chipset

Iwill will soon announce their new P4GB featuring the Intel E7205 chipset. This chipset was formally known as Granite Bay, and it will be compabible with the Pentium 4 Northwood (and single processor Xeon Prestonia) and it is expected to be released this November. Granite Bay is said to feature 533Mhz FSB support, dual channel DDR200/266 DDR SDRAM (With an estimated memory bandwidth of 4.2Gb/s), AGP 8X and Intel's ICH4 South Bridge.


P4GB Key Features -

* Support Intel Socket 478 Pentium 4 Processor
* Intel E7205 Chipset
* 533/400MHz Front Side Bus
* Hyper-Threading Ready
* Dual Channel DDR 266 support up to 4GB
* AGP 8X
* Intel 82540EM Gigabit LAN Controller
* TI IEEE 1394 Controller
* Analog Device AD1981A Audio controller
* 5 x PCI 32bit/33MHz slots
* ATX form factor

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Remember the time You used 20Mb harddrives

sure? that 7205 chipset sounds appealing to me?
AND please read the website B4asking questions like this there has been a review on THG a little while ago with the best and most recent mobo's, here a link

http://www17.tomshardware.com/main [...] index.html

if you cant' make up your mind take the gigabyte or the asus, you almost can't oc an intel mobo

Remember the time You used 20Mb harddrives

No question is inappropriate here. Don't be so picky. If you want to be picky you should provide your links in the correct format:

<A HREF="http://www17.tomshardware.com/mainboard/02q2/020624/index.html" target="_new"> click to see wschuerm's info </A>

It's annoying to have to copy and paste the link.

I really don't know why people go ballistic in here sometimes.