--- On Tue, 12/25/12, Rieni <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Gregg, > > Then what motherboard would you recommend? Capable of 32GB > ram and > enough PCIe slots for adding a card with multi eSata ports, > video > board and pro audio board? I don't need things like wireless > LAN, > overclocking etc. but I do need simplicity and reliability. > > Basically I would be ok with any motherboard without > standard eSata > connectors but with 3 full PCIe slots, right?
The only type of card that needs a full x16 PCIe slot is a video card, or a RAID controller able to handle a large number of drives. For a 4 port eSATA 3 card you'll want an x8 card, especially if with video editing you'll be more than one drive at a time - just to be sure you won't run into any data bottleneck. There are 4 port eSATA 3 cards that are x4 and even x1, but I wouldn't use an x1 for large data transfers to/from multiple drives at the same time. Prices are all over the place, from just under $100 to $400+ for x4 and x8 four port cards. The main thing is to ensure that the board you get has PCIe slots with both the physical size and electrical connections to fully support the cards you choose. If you get an x4 card and the board has a half connected x8 slot, that'll work just fine for the x4 card. Boards with two full x16 slots are mostly targeted towards extreme gamers willing to spend big bucks on a matching pair of video cards. To use them in tandem, the cards and the motherboard have to support the same system of linking them. (Some boards support both ATi and nVidia's systems for two or more video cards.) Then there are the Mac Pro desktops. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2838 The first one had one x16 slot while the others could be configured in various combinations of x1, x4 and x8. The newer models were fixed with two x16 and two x4 slots. There are motherboards with several fully connected x16 slots, but they are really expensive and made for highly specialized uses. Recently one was built up with multiple video cards and special software for a brute force password cracking demo. It was capable of trying almost 400 *billion* passwords *per second*. The protected files tested were cracked in a few minutes. Such a system, with software written for the job, could probably render movies like The Lord of The Rings at finished output quality in real time. Somewhat a step down from such a board is the EVGA Classified Super Record 2. It has seven x16 slots, up to four can be used as x16 or one can be x16 with the rest at x8. It also has 12 triple channel DDR3 RAM slots for up to 48GB and two sockets for Xeon CPUs, up to six cores each. Price? A mere $500 or so, then you get to buy all the bits to plug into it, though it does have 12 USB ports (two are 3.0), two eSATA ports, two gigabit ethernet ports, 8 channel audio and plenty more goodies. There are plenty of choices from ones that'll do what you need for video editing to the absolutely you gotta be kidding insane - but #@%& I want one. ;) ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
