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This is a cut/paste of my post in another forum. Some folks here might be interested in this; there are a few of you trying to get a PCI-E RAID card to work in your motherboard. Hope this helps. 
3Ware9650SE RAID controller works in Abit IP35-Pro
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Tried to be descriptive in the title so a search could find this post.
After months of delays, I finally rebuilt my workstation.
There's been much talk over what PCI-E RAID cards work in what motherboards (or not as the case often is). I know the focus right now is on the X38 boards; I'm a little behind the times.
I'm happy to report that the 3Ware9650SE-8 works in the 4x electrical (2nd 16x physical) slot of an Abit IP35-Pro, rev1.1, BIOS14 (latest bios as of this date). The board came with this BIOS installed, so I can't say for sure if the card would work in the same board w/an earlier BIOS; though I'd venture a guess and say it would. I did not have to hook up the additional 12v Molex connector to the motherboard; it works fine w/o it. I doubt hooking it up would give me any better performance. LOL!
The card was detected right off the bat and has given no problems so far at all. I installed WinXP-32 from a slipstreamed CD with the latest 3Ware drivers on it. Windows setup saw the card, no problem.
The HD activity light on the case did not work automatically; I had to hook up the LED to the card's header, but this was expected.
I've only ran a preliminary set of benchmarks with HD Tach (latest version) and so far I'm a little disappointed. I will post screenshots later (at work now) but going from memory:
(all HDs are 500GB Samsung HD501LJ, 9650SE-8, BBU present)
2-drive RAID0 avg. transfer rate 112MB/s, burst 204MB/s
4-drive RAID0 avg. transfer rate 149MB/s, burst 260MB/s
2-drive RAID1 avg. transfer rate 61MB/s, burst 80-something
3-drive RAID5 avg. transfer rate 72MB/s, burst 90-something
4-drive RAID5 avg. transfer rate 77/MBs, burst 90-something
I was expecting more, especially from the RAID0 setups. I only have 6 drives (case only holds 6) so my testing is sort of limited...can't try with all 8 drives.
I'll post screenshots later to get the exact numbers up, but my memory of them is pretty accurate.
Anyway, just wanted to report that it works.
3Ware9650SE RAID controller works in Abit IP35-Pro
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Tried to be descriptive in the title so a search could find this post.
After months of delays, I finally rebuilt my workstation.
There's been much talk over what PCI-E RAID cards work in what motherboards (or not as the case often is). I know the focus right now is on the X38 boards; I'm a little behind the times.
I'm happy to report that the 3Ware9650SE-8 works in the 4x electrical (2nd 16x physical) slot of an Abit IP35-Pro, rev1.1, BIOS14 (latest bios as of this date). The board came with this BIOS installed, so I can't say for sure if the card would work in the same board w/an earlier BIOS; though I'd venture a guess and say it would. I did not have to hook up the additional 12v Molex connector to the motherboard; it works fine w/o it. I doubt hooking it up would give me any better performance. LOL!
The card was detected right off the bat and has given no problems so far at all. I installed WinXP-32 from a slipstreamed CD with the latest 3Ware drivers on it. Windows setup saw the card, no problem.
The HD activity light on the case did not work automatically; I had to hook up the LED to the card's header, but this was expected.
I've only ran a preliminary set of benchmarks with HD Tach (latest version) and so far I'm a little disappointed. I will post screenshots later (at work now) but going from memory:
(all HDs are 500GB Samsung HD501LJ, 9650SE-8, BBU present)
2-drive RAID0 avg. transfer rate 112MB/s, burst 204MB/s
4-drive RAID0 avg. transfer rate 149MB/s, burst 260MB/s
2-drive RAID1 avg. transfer rate 61MB/s, burst 80-something
3-drive RAID5 avg. transfer rate 72MB/s, burst 90-something
4-drive RAID5 avg. transfer rate 77/MBs, burst 90-something
I was expecting more, especially from the RAID0 setups. I only have 6 drives (case only holds 6) so my testing is sort of limited...can't try with all 8 drives.
I'll post screenshots later to get the exact numbers up, but my memory of them is pretty accurate.
Anyway, just wanted to report that it works.
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