ECS NFORCE 570 SLIT-A (V5.1) LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: The RAID 5 works, i set up winxp on it, then removed a disk from the array, and it still booted!!(took like 30mins or more to boot) Put another drive in and rebuilt the array(that took even longer), awesome!(see other thoughts) You can't really beat this board for the price, just make sure you get some good RAM(see other thoughts). Lots of options in the BIOS. It has 8x SLI, but i'm not using it.

Cons: Does not support DDR2 800 Mhz. I could not get this board to overclock, but it was probabaly the OCZ Gold 6400 RAM, it kept locking it up when i changed anything.(see other thoughts) Works fine at 533mhz though. FSB maximum value is 1300.

Overall Review: Make sure you have all the same model drives if your doing a RAID 5. I initially set it up with 2 seagates, and 1 WD, but the WD failed. Possibly because the seagates use perpendicular technology, and the WD doesn't. When i put in another seagate (same model) the raid worked great.

If you have the OCZ gold 6400 RAM, i feel sorry for you cause it sucks, but you CAN get it to work on this board. you have to boot into the bios with some generica 1.8v RAM. Set the RAM voltage to 2.0v set the memory speed to 533Mhz and the FSB to 1066. leave everytihng else at the defaults, save settings, swap RAM. It should work fine now.

I could not overclock on this board, probably because of the sh1tty OCZ Memory. Everytime i tried to run at anything other than 533 the system would lock up.

I'm trying to help people out with this review, it took a long time to write, so if they remove important stuff from this review, i'm not going to write anymore.

Pros: Hooked up a core 2 duo e6300, Seagate SATA 3.0gbps drive, and an eVGA 7900GS. System itself works great, good design, and most of all it's a cheap SLI board. Northbridge is quiet and stays cool. PCI arrangemant is nice. Love the built-in audio.

Cons: Other popele said this board OC'd decent, but not for me. Tried to in the BIOS, didn't respond next time I started it up. Tried to OC it using nVidia control panel, and it wouldn't keep at all. Randomly resets, but that's cause it's defective. No wirewire is a negative for me since I do video stuff and my webcam is firewire.

Overall Review: If you want a somewhat decent SLI mobo that supports core 2 duos (which totally rock) and dont' carer about firewire or overclocking, this is definitely a good choice. Decent board, just not for me.