well I quite liked the sound of the Abit KN9sli....

(mostly for its 6 sata ports)

but my brothers died a while back..
and now mine has too...

so Ive gone off them a bit, any recomendations ?

Ive got 6 sata drives in striped raid... but could buy a card for them instead ?


kind of a side note... but will i lose some speed with a card ? the pic buss being limited to 133m/b a sec.... where as sata2 is 300mb/s ?

Im liking my Asus M2a-VM, but its an mATX board, so may not be suitable for you.

I just got an Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe, Its loaded with expansion.
Theres a total of 8 Sata plugs. 6x off one controller (assuming thats the nForce) & 2x off the highpoint controller. One of those 2 is external.

It also got twin gigabit NICs & Wireless built in