The chip used by Shuttle is the HighPoint HPT372, very popular among motherboard manufacturers (most ABIT boards come equipped with HPT370/372 controllers). Besides the usual RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 0+1, the HPT372 also features UltraATA 133 interface, so you can use ATA133 HDDs at full speed when connected to the RAID controller. This will make a lot of people happy, but not those that only use one HDD because the VT8233A southbridge has native support for ATA133. The downside is you have to install the OS and drivers with the HDD connected to the normal IDE ports and then switch to RAID ATA133. And the menu wouldn’t be complete without the onboard sound. Instead of the plain AC97 CODEC that uses the CPU for all operations, Shuttle has integrated the C-Media CMI8738 DSP for 6-Channel audio output.