64 bit pci

[Hermann]

I am looking for a motherboard with 64 bit pci. Need it for the raid controller. Any suggestions. Would like to stay with Intel P-III for the server.

Thanks

 

[mastertech01]

Join the crowd friend.. You will only find it on expensive server boards..at about 600 bucks right now or at least when I checked last.. would love to find it on a nice overclockers board to use with a 29160..

 

[Sukhoi]

Won't a lot of the 64-bit PCI cards work in 33-bit mode?

 

[mastertech01]

Yes, but the bandwidth is limited to U133 .. still not bad.. but to get the full U160 you need a 66MHZ 64BIT slot.

 

[Sukhoi]

True. But what the heck would you be running on the system that would require over 133 MB/sec to a SCSI RAID card?

Even if you're running RAID 0 with 2 15K RPM HDD's, that's not going to go over 133 MB/sec transfer speed. The burst obviously would be limited, but I wouldn't pay a few hundred dollars more for a mobo just so I can have a 30 MB/sec higher burst rate from a hard drive, when it's already running at 133 MB/sec.

 

[TimeKeeper]

Supermicro got quite of few of those 64Bit PCI server board.
one of the single processor model,
p6sbs

 

[Lorne]

I wonder if gfx mfg will make cards for them, The double bandwith over agp would be devine, later they can up agp, Wow agp64/x4.

Theres another point some people dont see, Even a lower throughput on SCSI is so much more smother running then Ultru-100 IDE, SCSI cpu usage is extremely low compared to IDE, You dont get that drive access lag (jerky screens)in games or utilities that are from paging or updating.

 

[mastertech01]

You will see more 64 bit PCI when U320 is in full swing.. you will have to have 64bit for that one.