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I'm looking for a board that's stable even with lots of peripherals. I have a GF4 AGP 8x card, Hauppauge TV tuner card, Audigy2, Highpoint RocketRAID 404, LSI Logic 21320 SCSI card, 7 hard drives (1 SCSI, 6 IDE), 1 CDRW, 1 DVD, 1 DVD+RW. This is in addition to any built-in peripheral onboard like LAN controller, firewire, USB controller.
Right now, I just finished plugging everything onto an Abit IS7 and it's not working very well. Lots of conflicts.
I understand that part of the stability has to do with the firmware and driver implementation of the individual peripherals. But I'm sure the motherboard implementation (e.g. of the PCI bus/slots) is also critical in determining overall stability.
Does anyone have any recommendation in this regard?
I'm considering the following boards and any other you can think of:
1. Abit IC7
2. Asus P4P800
3. Asus P4C800-E
4. Supermicro I865 or I875 based board (considering this since Supermicro has a strong reputation on building server boards where you likely have lots of peripherals and where stability is the primary concern.)
Thanks for any input/recommendation.
Right now, I just finished plugging everything onto an Abit IS7 and it's not working very well. Lots of conflicts.
I understand that part of the stability has to do with the firmware and driver implementation of the individual peripherals. But I'm sure the motherboard implementation (e.g. of the PCI bus/slots) is also critical in determining overall stability.
Does anyone have any recommendation in this regard?
I'm considering the following boards and any other you can think of:
1. Abit IC7
2. Asus P4P800
3. Asus P4C800-E
4. Supermicro I865 or I875 based board (considering this since Supermicro has a strong reputation on building server boards where you likely have lots of peripherals and where stability is the primary concern.)
Thanks for any input/recommendation.