GL buddy,
I'd go for the Abid KR7A board. It's not a RAID board, but if you shop around you can find somewhere that sells it for the 120 $ price range. I've just built my new system, and love this MB.

Pat

ABIT KR7A
Athlon XP 1800
Keningston registered ecc 512 mb DDR SDRAM
Tekram 390 U2W SCSI controller
Monster 300 sound card
Lan Li USB-07 case
Radeon 8500 video card

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