AGP and SCSI

[cringe]

Really looking for a good mb that has onboard SCSI and an AGP slot. Am I going to be paying out the wazoo? Does such even exist?

 

[mechBgon]

Onboard SCSI? Any particular reason that PCI-slot SCSI isn't doing the job for you? What is your intended CPU, or have you decided? Personally, I'd generally rather keep the SCSI controller after shelling out the money for it, rather than waving bye to it when I change motherboards.

I noticed an interesting single-Pentium4 board at Gigabyte's site that might interest you, head on over to http://www.giga-byte.com and I think you'll see it.

 

[EarthwormJim]

Originally posted by: cringe
Really looking for a good mb that has onboard SCSI and an AGP slot. Am I going to be paying out the wazoo? Does such even exist?

Why would you want onboard SCSI? If you're worried about clogging up your PCI bus with SCSI, onboard isn't going to help you there. Onboard SCSI also goes through the PCI bus. Plus onboard SCSI is often more expensive than just getting a separate controller card and motherboard.

 

[BlindBartimaeus]

They have imparted true words

 

[Steve]

You can't upgrade onboard SCSI.

 

[DieHardware]

Onboard SCSI? I cringe at the thought.

 

[Peter]

Absolutely correct. SCSI controllers tend to outlive multiple mainboard purchases, and if you aren't a rabid Adaptec fanboy, there isn't even an initial cost saving in getting onboard SCSI. Offerings like LSI's or Tekram's U160 and U320 controller cards are excellent performers for low prices. Also mind, U320 makes no sense unless the mainboard's chipsets has the fast PCI or PCI-X bus to feed it; on "normal" 32-bit 33 MHz PCI, U160 is already (slightly) bottlenecked, and U320 makes absolutely no sense.