-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have put 3ware cards into the second PCI-e slot of Intel motherboards with success. Basically if the second slot is capable of running PCI-e 4x cards you should be good to go. Most recent Intel based MBs should be fine.
At home I have a workstation class MB for my now ancient 3ware 8 port SATA card which required a PCI-X slot. This should not be required anymore. Your biggest problem is that you will be limited by the FSB, finding boards that support 1600Mhz will limit your choices. I am not sure how well those boards will work with the 3ware in the PCI-e slot. I do know that stock Intel boards work, so you *should not* have a problem here. YMMV. Personally I value stability over bleeding edge performance. I would go with a q9450 @ 2.66 Ghz (which is exactly the same chip, just clocked slower than the extreme you are looking at). $1300 for an extra 540 Mhz ~ does not add up for me. The 1600 Mhz fsb will likely help you overcome the limitations of the FSB, but the price premium for all the components does not add up for me. To put this into perspective, I am waiting for the FSB to be retired before I upgrade (likely to Intel's Nehalem). My AMD 939 based dual core is still more than I need :) Hth Johnny Stork wrote: | After 4 years with my old P4 3.2, 2gb ram and SATA Raid on 3ware, its | time for an upgrade but as I have found each time I do this, so much has | changed and the selections get harder and harder. | | I am very much a power user with heaving floating point work with | statistical analysis, and of course a great deal of photography and | panorama work/rendering so horsepower, memory bandwidth, disk | performance and network speed are all critical. I also plan to re-use my | Hauppauge PVR-350 so will need at least one old PCI slot. I also need | dual GB nics to bond together. | | So, I am pretty sure I am set with the case, ps and cpu and video, but I | am bit confused as to the best route for MB and SATA connection (PCI-x, | PCI-e). I am pretty sure PCI-e is the way to go, | | If you look at the screen shots of the P5K WS, is the blue socket on the | far right a PCI-e, but 16 bit or something for the video card? Are the | smaller slots also PCI-e. say for the 3ware 9650SE-4LPML ? | | | Anybody see any problems with these configurations (Windows XP, Fedora | and Suse), or can suggest others? | | | | *CPU:* | | Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9775 Quad Core Processor LGA771 Yorkfield 3.2GHZ | 1600FSB 12MB 45NM Retail Box | | http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=28924&vpn=BX80574QX9775&manufacture=Intel | | | *Case:* | | Coolermaster CM Stacker 830 | | http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=26535&vpn=RC%2D830%2DKKR3&manufacture=COOLERMASTER | | | *Video: | * | EVGA-GEFORCE 8800GT ($200.00)* | | http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=27704&vpn=512-P3-N801-AR&manufacture=eVGA&promoid=1001 | | | | *MB/SATA 1:* | | ASUS P5K WS ATX LGA775 P35 DDR2 1PCI-E16 1PCI-X 2PCI-E1 2PCI SATA2 Sound | GBLAN 1394 Motherboard | http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=25121&vpn=P5K%20WS&manufacture=ASUS | | | | 3WARE 9550SXU 4 Port SATA2 PCI-X RAID Controller 0/1/5/10/JBOD Low | Profile ($400.00) | http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=25224&vpn=9550SXU%2D4LP%2DKIT&manufacture=3Ware | | | *MB/SATA 2:* | | | ASUS Motherboard P5E64 WS | http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=82&l3=593&l4=0&model=1935&modelmenu=1 | | | SATA Controller: ($400.00) | 3WARE 9650SE-4LPML | | http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=333312271&vpn=9650SE%2D4LPML%20KIT&manufacture=3WARE | | | _______________________________________________ | clug-talk mailing list | [email protected] | http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca | Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) | **Please remove these lines when replying -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIK4BxwRXgH3rKGfMRAhaKAKCYi1BkwDqsTidki44MqBAYTvnlBwCfQz/z fQ6mPaAq1H2UT1CotgSjxGM= =2GhM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
