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Did anyone buy this motherboard? Does it absolutely require ECC memory?

PCIe x1 cards fit in PCI x16 slots The idea is that I can buy a cheap SLI board with 2 PCIe x16 slots and two PCIe x2 slots and use them for SATA controllers

Hello, I am building a mass storage box. If I buy a nForce4 SLI motherboard, can I use both PCI Express x16 slots for SATA controllers? (I will be using a very old PCI video card, or none at all if the system will boot without one.)

Hello, I am buildling a large RAID system and I'm considering a nForce4 motherboard with an additional 4 Serial ATA ports via a Sil 3114 chip. Will this chip operate at 33MHz or 66MHz (266MB/sec)? Operating at 33 MHz would impede performance at 133MB/sec. Also, will the chip's bandwidth be...

That's what I was fearing. Thanks.

that's PCI-X, not pci express

Hello, I am going to be building a file server using opensolaris raidz2. There will be at least 15 drives in the system. My plan is to get an affordable motherboard with 6-10 SATA ports builtin and use PCI-e cards. I have been unable to find any PCI Express SATA cards that have more than...