Pentium 4 board with 64bit/66MHz board

[cvlegion]

I am an Athlon user right now but I might think about going to Intel if they can provide a board that is a single Pentium 4 (dual would be way too much) with 64bit/66MHz slots. I don't want on-board SCSI. I want more cache on my chip. I also have a SCSI RAID card which will most likely perform better with more bandwidth. So far the only boards with these slots are the dual Xeon boards. Way too expensive plus features I will never use since this computer is not a server. What about Via's P4X266A since it has an option to have 64/66 slots as an add-on feature. Thanks for any help!

 

[Rand]

I think it highly unlikely you will see a 64bit/66MHz PCI bus on any P4 motherbards. Such PCI bus controllers are generally relegated to motherboards intended for the server market, and the P4 isnt intended to touch anything beyond the home desktop market... their alse rarely seen outside of dual processor motherboard, the P4 doesnt even support SMP.

If you want 64bit/66MHz PCI bus, your most likely going to have to look toward the Intel Xeon which naturally is considerably more expensive.

The VIA P4X266A supports 64/66 in theory, but so have many other past VIA chipsets and it's seldom been implemented.... and VIA boards are classically not intended toward the high end users that would make use of a 64bit/66MHz PCI bus.
Simply put, the market for a uniprocessor P4 motherboard with a 64bit//66MHz PCI bus controller would be quite minimal considering the cost overhead required to design and mass produce such a board.