any single CPU boards with 66mhz PCI slots?

[Agent666]

just curious....... was thinking about it for next upgrade with a 66Mhz promise raid card....... and some nice big drives with 8Mb cache..... yeah baby ;)

[Grrr!!]

AMD, P4 or Xeon?

[Agent666]

hehe .... probably AMD ....... would never be able to afford 2 p4s :D

[Grrr!!]

For AMD? I don't think there are any single CPU boards with that ... duals there are though, just run them with one CPU.

Or just cut the PCI divider on your motherboard in half :D.

* Grrr!! wonders on data corruption with a 66mhz PCI rate. Not that it matters, you'd be using SCSI anyway, not IDE.

[Agent666]

no IDE in raid 0 or maybe raid 5 with a promise sx4000 .......

[mird-OC]

i think there are a few single CPU workstation mobos out there that feature 66MHz PCI clots. have you checked the tyan website?

[Wibber]

you could probably buy a gigabyte or asus dual cpu board for the same price

[Grrr!!]

Originally posted by Wibber
you could probably buy a gigabyte or asus dual cpu board for the same price

Yep ... Starlyte has an MSI even for $580

[Agent666]

yep..... cool ... but shame all the dual boards are still based around ddr266 solutions..... anyway given me a few options ... and some more dreams ;)

[Grrr!!]

Originally posted by Agent666
yep..... cool ... but shame all the dual boards are still based around ddr266 solutions..... anyway given me a few options ... and some more dreams ;)

Don't suspect any improvement there until the hammer arrives. Ali, VIA, nVidia and SIS don't seem to make multiprocessor AMD chipsets.

[Binky Stunt Cat]

i think Soyo may have....i breifly looked at these when a shark down here (aka HURICANe) was trying to convince me to get a gigabit network card.....

[_N_]

I think you might better of rethinking the whole thing, as far as I can see, you wan't faster HDD's, might come out to be the same $$ if you go for the high end SCSI?

[Agent666]

yeah I guess but since there are no single AMD motherboards with 66mhz pci I probably will have to rethink anyway..... scsi is just to expensive per Gb for me at the moment...... considering you can get 3-4 times the amount of space for your IDE dollar..... + I really want raid 0 as it makes a big difference to comp.... and scsi raid = $$

[Grrr!!]

If I had money:

I'd get two 20GB SCSIs and Stripe them. A tape drive that backs up this stripe daily. And a couple of 80GB WD JB's striped for ordinary storage (MP3s and so don't really need speedy HDDs).

[Agent666]

really want the promise SX4000 .... :) 4 IDE channels - raid 0 1 01 5 with up to 256Mb of sdram as a cache onboard :) ...... going to get one in the states over christmas along with 2 or 3 drives.... at least thats the plan ... it might get foiled once the girlfreind gets a wiff of it ;)

[Binky Stunt Cat]

cant you just get a mobo with RAID on it?

[mird-OC]

Originally posted by Binky Stunt Cat
cant you just get a mobo with RAID on it?
that's kinda like saying "why not just use the onboard AC97 sound instead of a philips acoustic edge" ;)

they're in totally different leagues.

[Agent666]

motherboards with raid are good for 2 drives per array..... any more and you have to doubleup on one channel which isnt good since parallelATA can only access one drive at a time........ so if you want more 3-4 drive arrays then you got to go with a high end PCI card unless you want some serious performance hits

[Binky Stunt Cat]

ah ok....
damn...there goes my plans of a 4 hdd RAID 5 array :(

[Agent666]

but no motherboards do raid 5 anyway so you would need to get a addon card...... not sure if windows does raid 5 in software raid or not??