Motherboards to fill all PCI slots

[Haden]

I'm looking for motherboard recommendations which work stable with all PCI slots filled.
I'm going to put 5-6 PCI nics (onboard nic would be a plus).

Suggestions/recommendations appreciated.

 

[Peter]

Use multichannel NIC cards. Besides, even if those are just 100-MBit, the measly 32-bit PCI bus on your average standard mainboard will be congested. You want to go PCI-X or PCI-Express for this.

 

[CraigRT]

Peter is definitely right, however what I was going to say was that I have never myself experienced a problem on mainboards I've had with all slots full. All different makes and such.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Most all of the nforce4 ultra and SLI boards have 2 gb lan ports onboard. But none that I know of have more than 3 PCI and 1 or 2 PCI-e slots. You would need multi-channel PCI-e lan cards and I haven't seen any

 

[Peter]

There are plenty dual- and quad-channel NIC cards around. Just leave the toy department and go to the Serious Stuff Aisle.

 

[SPQQKY]

Originally posted by: Peter
There are plenty dual- and quad-channel NIC cards around. Just leave the toy department and go to the Serious Stuff Aisle.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Originally posted by: Peter
There are plenty dual- and quad-channel NIC cards around. Just leave the toy department and go to the Serious Stuff Aisle.

Are they PCI-e or PCI-x? I've seen the PCI-x versions

 

[Haden]

Price is important factor.
I've already got one such box working: A7V880/Sempron 2300+/4 10/100 intels + gb onboard, with acceptable performance.
But thing gets unstable if I put one more nic, and for new box at least 6 ports are required.

I'll try searching for affordable multiport cards,
thanks.