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Yes that's the challenge, found MB without IPMI like: - msi Z77A-G45 (TB) - ASRock Z77 Extreme6/TB4 (decided now not to go with Thunderbolt as USB3.0 speed should be ok for external HDD-Backup) - GA Z77P-D3 Supermicro has some newer ones with IPMI, but only 4core and only 16GB ...

Looking for a Motherboard with this specifications, any ideas???? - LGA1155, 3rd generation i7 (4- or 6-core, e.g. i7 3970X) - 2 x SATAIII with RAID 1 (as minimum) for SSD RAID = caching? - USB 3.0 - vt-d and vt-x support - 32MB RAM or more - IPMI (2.0) or similar Thanks in advanced for any hint.

Sorry, was some days on the road. Thanks for the comments. I understand best way is to have onboard controller and it's enough to put the HDD's on SATA2 because of speed limitations and the SSD on SATA3. Thanks again, I will do it this way...

typically additional cards bring performance issues (hopefully they are PCI Express 3.0 or similar), therefore the best idea would be to have onboard solutions. Or is this a wrong thinking?

Hey, thanks for your comments, - the hdd is a SATA 6Gbps, SAS 6Gbps - according to the mentioned review (many thanks hhhd1): Weak performance of the 3TB Constellation ES.2 SAS drive - ...puh, really bad news - so it seems to be not the best performing drive? and I thought the hdd would not be...

;-) o.k.

The HDD which is expected to be used will be a "Constellation ES.2 ST33000650NS". O.k. vt-d support is currently not that important, but we will see in the future what Microsoft is going to do... but without any doubt - important is virtualization support. ..."do not support it": And that's...

what kind of mobo do you have with 8 sata3 onboard? Looking for myself for a solution with at least 3 onboard sata3, but not a marvell etc. (as they are often regarded as bad performing)...

Hi, is there any motherboard which has 3 x SATAIII onboard (best Intel SATAIII AHCI or similar, but never Marvell etc.) which works together with Intel Core i7 3770T (low power CPU). My aim is to build up a virtualized environment with VmWare Workstation (only small business!!, no expensive...