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cheap PCI-X board
- Thread starter shunx
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on newegg they got the new intel 915 mobos with pci-x for like 150
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Uhhhhh I didn't know there was a difference. And even then, the only pci express card out is the fx5750 AND those motherboards got recalled by intel.
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That's ok I didn't know much about PCI-X either, since that market is for servers. Unfortunately there isn't yet a RAID5 card for PCI Express, so I'd need to go with PCI-X in order to go above 133MB/s.
Looks like the Supermicro board might be the cheapest one around.
Looks like the Supermicro board might be the cheapest one around.
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i would wait for a pci express card.
Most boards with pci-x have no agp- so you are outta luck with gfx.
Most boards with pci-x have no agp- so you are outta luck with gfx.
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Please read the initial post, he's looking for a board for a faster PCI bus, not PCI-E for video.
You do not need a PCI Express board. Neither do you need a single processor board that supports PCI-X. You can get any variety of boards using as old as PCI 64/66 and PIII or Tbirds/Durons. Most dual boards will run single processors fine, some may require terminators. The MPX chipset has some PCI 32/33 issues but supports 2 PCI 64/66 slots and is inexpensive as are the XP chips.
Unless you are running a very high end controller and a fair number of drives, RAID 5 will not need much over a 32/33 bus in reads, writes will normally be much slower.
There are plenty of solutions for other boards as well. This one is inexpensive for a server based solution:
http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=S2720GN&cat=MBB
You would need an EPS power supply, E ATX spec case and ECC Reg PC2100, but it would make a nice server.
There are many other options out there. What hardware are you planning on using and what budget?
You do not need a PCI Express board. Neither do you need a single processor board that supports PCI-X. You can get any variety of boards using as old as PCI 64/66 and PIII or Tbirds/Durons. Most dual boards will run single processors fine, some may require terminators. The MPX chipset has some PCI 32/33 issues but supports 2 PCI 64/66 slots and is inexpensive as are the XP chips.
Unless you are running a very high end controller and a fair number of drives, RAID 5 will not need much over a 32/33 bus in reads, writes will normally be much slower.
There are plenty of solutions for other boards as well. This one is inexpensive for a server based solution:
http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=S2720GN&cat=MBB
You would need an EPS power supply, E ATX spec case and ECC Reg PC2100, but it would make a nice server.
There are many other options out there. What hardware are you planning on using and what budget?
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the ati x600's are also pci express 
but yeah i xaotic hit the nail on the head.
but yeah i xaotic hit the nail on the head.
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ive been waiting for a amd 64 board with pci express. im making a whole new system and that will probably include a pci express video card, but they havent released the high end cards for pci-e yet anyways.
