Slot 1/tualatin mobo's that support large hd's?

[shabby]

Can someone name some slot1/tualatin mobo's that support large hard drives(180gig) out of the box, and are good for overclocking?
I know i can add a pci ide controller, but my tx2 controller seems to be corrupting a bunch of files so i'd like to stay away from it.

 

[tcsenter]

Good luck. I do not recall any Slot 1 motherboards having southbridge capable of 48bit addressing required to support 'big drives' larger than ~ 137GB.

There may have been some Slot 1 boards with integrated third-party RAID controllers (Promise, HPT, etc.) that support 48bit addressing and could be used as a regular IDE/ATA non-RAID configuration. Don't know of any, but they could exist.

On Edit: I just noticed you mention Tualatin. Finding 48bit ready Tualatin boards shouldn't be hard at all, but you do realize that Tualatin is not Slot 1, right?

 

[shabby]

Yup i do, i have a tualatin celeron with a slot-t adapter.
The only mobo i found so far is the ecs one with all the integrated crap.

 

[lycurgus]

If you're looking at getting a new mobo, why get a slot 1? The Tualatin chip itself is socket 370. Why don't you take it off the adapter card and put it on a new (relatively modern) socket 370 board. For example, TUSL2-C.

 

[shabby]

Well either one will do, but it looks like slot1's dont support 48bit addressing so i guess ill have to look at the tusl2-c or an st6 from abit and ditch the slot-t adapter.

 

[oldfart]

Those boards are VERY hard to find. You can still get a Soyo TISU. Last I looked, they were ~ $52 @ mwave.com.

 

[tcsenter]

Originally posted by: shabby
Well either one will do, but it looks like slot1's dont support 48bit addressing so i guess ill have to look at the tusl2-c or an st6 from abit and ditch the slot-t adapter.

Yeah, you might as well just get a Socket370 board that supports Tualatin and 48bit LBA directly.

There were a few 815E boards offered in the Slot1/SECC package which "may" have an ATA100 48bit LBA capable southbridge. The Abit SH6 was a Slot1 815E board, and although it does not "officially" support Tualatin, it does have a BIOS update for 137GB "and larger" HDDs. These will probably be far more difficult to find than suitable Socket370 boards, since they would be discontinued for some time now.

If you're using an Intel chipset supported by Intel's Application Accelerator (IAA) and either Windows XP or 2000, you don't "need" hardware capable of supporting 48bit LBA. It's certainly optimal, but 48bit support is not "needed" in the hardware in these cases.

IAA - Information on Hard Drives Larger than 137GB

IAA - 48bit BIOS Support

Large Hard Drive Installation Instructions with IAA

 

[lycurgus]

It still makes way more sense to me to get a socket 370 board. First, it's going to be a more modern board / chipset. It's interesting about the 815 chipset slot 1 boards mentioned, but still I don't see any advantage in trying to get some (incredibly?) rare board just in order to continue using the adapter. Second, running a socket 370 processor on a socket 370 board has to be better (more stable, efficient etc.) than running it on a slot 1 using an adapter card. Since you're currently looking for a new board, it will be easier / better to go for a socket 370 board. Plus, you have the added advantage of being able to sell the adapter card to offset the cost of the new board.

 

[tcsenter]

Originally posted by: shabby
Well either one will do, but it looks like slot1's dont support 48bit addressing so i guess ill have to look at the tusl2-c or an st6 from abit and ditch the slot-t adapter.

I would recommend a VIA Pro133T (VT82C694T) or even a VIA Pro266T (VT8653) based-board over i815.

i815 is limited to 512MB MAX of system RAM and the 694T is the better chipset overall. The Pro266T is a DDR chipset supporting DDR-RAM, and although the PIII cannot utilize DDR interface, many applications can benefit from the higher memory bandwidth/performance.

A few manufacturers still have 694T and Pro266T based boards shipping or in their current line-up. A search for "via 694T" or "pro266T" on Pricewatch pulled up a few pages of hits. I'm sure other hardware pricing websites will have some hits as well.