Need mobo with plenty of PCI slots

[VirtualLarry]

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NewEgg used to carry this board some months back, but it appears that they have no more left. Does anyone know where to find this board, or any other C2D-supporting board with many PCI slots?

(I've decided to save my Conroe865PE board for a backup for my main machine, rather than use it for my fileserver.)

I do have an older MSI KT4V-L mobo with Athlon XP 1800+ that I could use, but PCI bus performance is not the greatest on the Via chipset. I have three PCI RAID 5-port controllers, and a PCI gigabit ethernet card, that I want to use. So at least 4 PCI slots are neccesary, or 3 PCI slots if the mobo already has gigabit ethernet.

CDW's site says:

This product has been discontinued as of Sunday, November 30, 2008.

It's only Dec 5, and all of these mobos have disappeared already???

 

[zerocool84]

http://www.google.com/products...17888839162#ps-sellers

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: zerocool84
http://www.google.com/products...17888839162#ps-sellers

The first four are out of stock, the next only ships to the UK, and the last looks like a five-year-old designed their web site, there's no way I'm ordering from them. It doesn't list availability.

I did find two smaller computer shops advertising that board, I'm going to contact them tomorrow and see if they will ship. They're in the states.

I also realized that if worst comes to worst, then I could always use one of my 775dual-VSTA boards, those have four PCI slots. The problem is again the Via chipset, which is known to have performance issues with PCI. It would work, though.

 

[SilentRunning]

What is wrong with one of the new models: GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3R (3 PCI slots and Gigabit Lan)

Or an advanced search on Newegg shows 2 models with 5 PCI slots: Linky

 

[VirtualLarry]

Yeah, I was toying with the idea of just getting the UD3R. Three PCI slots and onboard gigabit LAN would probably work for me.

 

[vailr]

Some onboard lans are still located (electrically) on the PCI bus.
Some are located on the PCIe bus. Just depends.
The PCI bus can get swamped fairly easily. Even a single HDTV tuner card located on the PCI bus can skip frames, when saving HDTV video to the hard drive. Having "three PCI RAID 5-port controllers, and a PCI gigabit ethernet card" is probably going to saturate the PCI bus throughput as well.