8 sata when?

silentdebuggers · Jun 26, 2008

Has there been any indication as to when an nvidia or Intel chipset is going to support more than 6 sata devices natively? I really wish I could have 8 sata ports connected to the mcp: 2 raided for xp, 2 raided for vista, 2 for storage, and 2 for optical.

ratbuddy · Jun 26, 2008

silentdebuggers said:
Has there been any indication as to when an nvidia or Intel chipset is going to support more than 6 sata devices natively? I really wish I could have 8 sata ports connected to the mcp: 2 raided for xp, 2 raided for vista, 2 for storage, and 2 for optical.

Well do they all have to be running off the chipset? Cause this bad mofo has 10 SATA ports, 6 on the ICH10R and 4 on dedicated RAID controller chips.. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128343

If I ran a full ATX system, that would be the mobo for me..

jokers_greg · Jun 26, 2008

wonder if there's enough usb ports on the mobo lol

ratbuddy · Jun 26, 2008

jokers_greg said:
wonder if there's enough usb ports on the mobo lol

Sure, just enough - each of the 4 ethernet ports needs 2 USB ports to keep it company

That's a real tank of a mobo.. Throw 4 PCIe RAID cards in there and you got a monster server :drool:

silentdebuggers · Jun 26, 2008

Wow-- I had no idea that monster m/b existed.
I may end up dumping in a bunch of pci-e cards. I don't really like the Sil 3132 series stuff, but that Sil 5723 might be awesome.

ratbuddy · Jun 26, 2008

silentdebuggers said:
Wow-- I had no idea that monster m/b existed.
I may end up dumping in a bunch of pci-e cards. I don't really like the Sil 3132 series stuff, but that Sil 5723 might be awesome.

Toss a thread up if you do get one, would love to see someone maxing out that board :beer:

BLOOP! · Jun 26, 2008

My gawd! Every time I see this Gigabyte board I keep I asking myself why would I be needing all those Ethernet ports. Ridiculously so much for a desktop system.

I hope it clocks as much as the lan ports

ratbuddy · Jun 26, 2008

Sweet, looking closer, I see that the 2 PCIe x4 slots are open ended like the one on my board

You could run quadfire on that thing

nd4spdbh2 · Jun 26, 2008

ratbuddy said:
Sweet, looking closer, I see that the 2 PCIe x4 slots are open ended like the one on my board

You could run quadfire on that thing

you could problem is...

Upper 16x slot is 16x electrical, lower 16x is 8x electrical (look at top down pic, theres a chip UNDER the slot halfway back) and the 2 4x slots are hooked together to the chip behind them and then i think are linked to the ICH via either a 4x or 1x link... which is bad either way cus the ICH has a 4x link the the NB but the ICH deals with ALL the ethernet usb........

But my god ya that thing has a PLETHORA of usb ethernet and sata ports....

8 sata when?

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