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The board The package itself was reminiscent of the packaging of the KX18D Pro II, just that the wording has changed slightly.
The package consists of the following
Albatron have again decided against having mounting holes around the CPU socket, as a result certain high end coolers wouldn't be able to be install on this board. If not for that minor issue, the surrounding area around the CPU socket provides adequate room for larger CPU coolers. I hope in any future revisions they decide on having these mounting holes as it'll attract more of the overclocking community.
One of the first things you realize in comparing the KX18D Pro II & the KX18DS Pro II is that the latter one consists of a considerably larger south bridge. It's almost 1 ½ times the size of the KX18D Pro II. That is of course for the added native support offered by the MCP RAID south bridge.
The KX18D Pro II did not have native support for RAID and was provided by a Silicone Image RAID chipset. Now the KX18DS Pro II comes with native RAID support and offers 0, 1, 0+1 and RAID Span (JBOD - just a bunch of disks) configurations. There are heaps of documentation on what each of these RAID configurations offer, so if you're new to this, read them first and decide on the best option. The nVidia RAID utility offered in this board along with the user manual gives clear instructions on how you go about configuring your RAID setup, so anyone new to this can still configure a RAID setup very easily. The board offers two Serial ATA ports if you wish to have Serial ATA drives in your system. At present SATA doesn't really offer that much of a significant improvement in performance, nevertheless if you wish to be ready for future expansion that's a good option to go for.
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