Andy Dean <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The supermicro H8SSL-i looks a very good board high end > wise, and anyting with the nvidia NForce 4 ultra for lowend > stuff really, very tempted by the asrock board though as well. Don't forget the nForce Pro 2200 (and 2200+2050). They _are_ available in single socket mainboards. > Does anyone know of a motherboard that supports both Pci-x > and Pci-e x16 as i've not found one yet. For single socket AMD, no, not yet. Only PCIe x8 and PCI-X. There are several dual-socket mainboards that add an AMD8131 dual-PCI-X 1.0 (or AMD8132 dual-PCI-X 2.0) to CPU #0, while using a nForce Pro 2200 on CPU #0 and, optionally, a nForce Pro 2050 on CPU #1. > Finally probably a stupid question, would there be any > advantages in running a 3ware 8006-2LP in a standard Pci slot > on an Nvidia ultra board, rather than SATA-2 drives on the > nvidia ultra SATA-2 onboard controller? i ask as i've been > offered one very cheap :) The problem is that the 3Ware will quickly _saturate_ your bandwidth on the legacy 32-bit @ 33MHz (133MBps) with modern drives. The 3Ware Escalade 8006 clearly wants >>100MBps for itself for reads (in RAID-1, reads/writes in RAID-0), and the higher port count 8506 products can easily exceed 250MBps at reads (and over 200MBps at RAID-10 writes in the 8 port version). On a workstation, that will kill anything else on the PCI bus (e.g., audio). That's why PCI-X is highly recommended for even those older cards. -- Bryan J. Smith Professional, Technical Annoyance b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx http://thebs413.blogspot.com ---------------------------------------------------- *** Speed doesn't kill, difference in speed does *** -- amd64-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/amd64-list