On Nov 28, 2005, at 4:14 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 08:28:31PM +0100, Andre Majorel wrote:
Sorry, yet another motherboard question.
Looking for a socket 939 motherboard with a comfortable number of
SATA ports (at least 6, preferably 8). The application is software
RAID.
Here's what I've found so far :
NB PCI SATA ports______
Ethernet______________
Asus a8n-sli deluxe nf4s 3 4(nf4) + 4(3114) g(nf) + g
(marvel)
Asus a8n-sli premium nf4s 3 4(nf4) + 4(3114) g(nf) + g
(marvel)
Gigabyte ga-k8n ultra-9 nf4u 3 4(nf4) + 4(3114) g(marvel) + g
(cicada)
Gigabyte ga-k8nxp-9 nf4u 3 4(nf4) + 4(3114) g(nf) + g
(marvel)
MSI k8n diamond nf4s 3 4(nf4) + 2(3132) g(nf4s) + g
(88e8053)
MSI k8n diamond 54g nf4 4(nf4) + 2(sil) g(nf4) + g
(marvel)
MSI k8n neo4 platinum nf4u 4 4(nf4) + 4(3114) g(88e1111) + g
(88e8053)
MSI k8n neo4 platinum sli nf3 4(nf3) + 2(sil)
MSI k8n sli-fi nf4s 4(nf4) + 2(sil?) g(marvel)
I'm not too hot for Gigabyte due to past experience with BIOS
updates, or lack thereof. The Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe/Premium and
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum look good. The A8N-SLI Deluxe/Premium
support SLI, which I have no use for, at the expense of a PCI
slot. They're also more expensive than the K8N Neo4 Platinum.
Hmm, does anyone know if you can stick a 4x or 8x PCIe raid card
into a
PCIe 16x slot on an SLI board configured to run 8x per slot (or
even 16x
per slot on some of the new boards)?
I believe you can. You can definitely put a 4x PCIe card into a 16x
slot, I'm not sure it the SLI-ishness makes a difference. That's
probably the question you're asking.
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