Are there any Athlon XP or 64 mobo with a 64bit pci slot?

[bigshooter]

I picked up a LSI SATA 150-6 controller for a raid 5 array. I'm not that concerned about performance, but I would like a 64 bit pci slot if possible. Does anyone know of a relatively inexpensive Athlon XP or A64 mobo with a 64 bit pci slot on it? I may look for integrated graphics as well since I will most likely administer this over TS or VNC. All the opteron boards (all i could find with 64bit pci) were expensive, and the one gigabyte board i found for athlonxp didn't have integrated graphics or gigabit ethernet. I may just pick up a intel gigabit card to add to it if it comes down to it though.


Thanks

 

[Vette73]

Yea look at the Opteron boards for 64bit. You might be able to get one in the $300 range.

If you don;t need a good upgrade path and trying to save some buck then get a board with the 760MPX chipset and run 2 MOBILE Athlon XP's. You will need to add a video card as most in the lower price range don;t have onboard video.



You could also just get a standard socket 754 Athlon64 board as I think that card will run in a 32bit 33Mhz slot?

 

[MichaelD]

Heheheh. Mwuahahahah! Welcome to the Land of Lust for 64-bit SCSI goodness. :evil:

The only boards you'll find are Workstation boards, and they are pricey. Marlin1975 hit it on the head.

Myself and about...a dozen other folks from this board alone have been on this quest for awhile now.

The solution? Spend a whole lot of money and go dual Opteron.

Chew on this for awhile.


NF3-250 chipset. NO know conflicts with current videocards (unlike the Tyan K8W Thunder 2885 )

This board is due to hit Etailers shelves in early July. I'm waiting for it.

You could run that card in a standard PCI slot, but it'll be choked, just like my SCSI RAID card is now. My card is a bit older, it's a U160 card. Theoretical max transfer rate of 160MB/s. Based on what I've seen in tests and heard from very knowledgable folks, this card will do that and then some...in the right PCI-X slot, of course. :roll:

Believe me, I'm itchy for this mobo.

 

[Peter]

Since the Athlon MP dual-CPU platform is on its way out, there are some real bargains to be had. We just ordered a Thunder K7X for 149 euros ... (about $180). MP boards do run single Athlon XPs too, but only at 133 MHz bus - and you're supposed to have Registered ECC DIMMs as well. MP Bartons 2600+ to go with that are also not quite as expensive as they used to be.

Tiger MPX goes for approx. 230 euros, the even cheaper Tiger MP is to be avoided though. This board has an issue with the CPU power supply, and goes no higher than 1900+.

 

[Peter]

MichaelD, the board you link to uses AMD's 8000 series chipset. No NVidia to be seen ...

The interesting bit is they are cascading the HyperTransport tunneling the other way round - PCI-X first, AGP second. That's your I/O beastie

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: Peter
MichaelD, the board you link to uses AMD's 8000 series chipset. No NVidia to be seen ...

The interesting bit is they are cascading the HyperTransport tunneling the other way round - PCI-X first, AGP second. That's your I/O beastie

Peter, you're right. My bad...I was SO tired last night I couldn't see straight.

Here's the one I meant; the Iwill DK8N

 

[Peter]

Ah. So they're actually building that thing? NVidia AGP and other misc I/O, plus AMD's well proven dual PCI-X tunnel chip. Neat.

 

[bigshooter]

Well, I'll have to look into the Athlon XP/MP boards. This is going to be a file server only. On occasion is may encode video or copy cd's/dvd's but that's it. I am planning on building a dual opteron system with a bunch of ram later, but that's mainly so I can run a lot of VM's on it.

I think I'll go with the Tyan Tiger or Gigabyte Athlon MP board and just buy graphics, gigabit nic, and pop the raid controller in. At least I won't have to worry about performance issues for a while. My only other option would be to wait and see if PCI Express takes off, but that won't be for a while.