Heya any and all help much apprciated.
First goal is just getting it to post :p. But really is raid 5 bootable array is needed for the build, probably end up being multiple partitions on it unless I can get win7 to accept install on got but not fussed about that.
Full hardware list is ga-p67-ud7, 2600k i7, 8gb corsair RAM (cantel remember branding but the gskill wasn't out yet when I brought it and was best on market by far for ddr3 dual channel), ATI 6970. Currently that's it becuase I have stripped everything else out.
I'm actually going to follow darker advise and rma the board anyway currently becuase if nothing else I noticed touch BIOS etc not being released for the non b3 despite gigabyte making out you should rma only if suffering from issues they seam to have dropped support. While it would likely install etc any future issues doesn't seam worth it.
But in meantime checking all sorts of forums etc out it seams my main choices would be lsi 9260 and areca 1880 series. The areca has been reported to work on the p67 boards by a few people and saw one build where someone was making a hackintosh. While I love the idea of 4gb cache I can't afford even the more basic areca cards really and they lack some features like still would need a bbu for write cache. The lsi 9260 I've seen a few reports of it working due to peoples build lists and things so fingers crossed that looks like my best bet and they offer the cache vault option and can get the fast path stuff in a few years if I decide to move to ssds in a few years. Sorry for the rambling reply and poor grammer and no doubt a few wrong words am replying with phone so hard to edit etc.
