Socket 939 w/PCI-X and PCI Express?

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infocalypse

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Hey peeps,

Do any of you know of a single processor AMD motherboard which includes the following features?

- Socket 939 support
- PCI Express support (at least 16x)
- PCI-X support (at least 100mhz)

Bonus points for:

- Integrated Firewire
- Integrated SCSI
- Works with X2 cpus

I've found some multi-processor socket 940 boards that meet the feature list, but I'm trying to avoid a socket 940 solution.

Thanks for any leads..
 
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Continuity28

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I really doubt that you'll find a socket 939 board with PCI-X in the first place.

What do you need PCI-X for?
 
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destrekor

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a board that features both pci-x and pci-e for s939 does not exist. i believe the s940 only supports it because its s940 is primarily for server-platforms.
 
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Continuity28

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Originally posted by: infocalypse
What do you need PCI-X for?
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For my LSI 320-2X and 4x147gb 10krpm drives. Duh! ;)

I guess I'm SOL. Gonna have to consider Intel dual core or maybe wait for socket F.

Jake
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What I was trying to get at was, maybe it would be better to work around the non-workstation/server sockets instead of your RAID card. For example, you can use an LSI 320-2E instead of LSI 320-2X, the former of which is PCI-Express. Point being, instead of changing motherboard, processor, memory, etc etc you can just change the SCSI RAID card.
 
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Vegito

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Originally posted by: Continuity28
What I was trying to get at was, maybe it would be better to work around the non-workstation/server sockets instead of your RAID card. For example, you can use an LSI 320-2E instead of LSI 320-2X, the former of which is PCI-Express. Point being, instead of changing motherboard, processor, memory, etc etc you can just change the SCSI RAID card.
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Bringing this back because i'm looking for the same thing..

Would socket am2 bring pcix & pcie together ? Since s939 is being kill off soon...
Right now i'm using A8N SLI with a LSI 320-2e & 2x (in pci slot). I have a lot of scsi drives so I do need both card together.
 
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gaidin123

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If the new socket is used for server CPUs then you will probably be able to find one with pcix and pcie. However PCIe really is designed to replace PCI, PCI-X, and AGP so my guess is that we'll be seeing less and less of the older busses over the next year.

Most/all of the RAID card manufacturers out there have at least announced plans for pcie cards if they haven't already released them. It will be nice not to have to worry aobut how many bits/Mhz each of your various PCI/PCIX slots are when matching boards and cards. Of course now we'll have to figure out how many pcie xX slots we need for fancy RAID and fibre channel cards...

Gaidin
 
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Peter

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Technically, one COULD design a socket-939 mainboard that does use AMD's 8132 PCI-X tunnel chip, combined with any random chipset, including PCIE chipsets. However, socket-939 offers only one HT link, so you'd have to daisy-chain these components. On socket-940 with its three to four available HT links (depending on how many CPUs you have), you can hook them up on separate HT links, for MUCH better throughput.

In other words, if you want to get serious about your I/O throughput, please leave the toys section and go to the Serious Stuff aisle. :)

You will find neat things like the Tyan K8WE there.

http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8we.html
 
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Vegito

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Originally posted by: Peter
In other words, if you want to get serious about your I/O throughput, please leave the toys section and go to the Serious Stuff aisle. :)

You will find neat things like the Tyan K8WE there.

http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8we.html
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I just want to reuse the 4 lsi-320-2x raid cards I own, instead of dumping them and getting pcie, which I already bought 2 off. I use to run server boards, they're too pricy and performance isn't that much better.. my last supermicro board expired 6 month out of warranty..

Performance of opteron isn't that much better than the end user x2 series.. but i just sold my dual xeon 3.2 for an opteron system..

 
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Peter

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CPU performance isn't ... but I/O performance (PCIE, PCI-X, PCI, chipset internal I/O) on socket-940 is massively better than on -939. See above for why.
 
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