Im currently running an ASRock H77 Pro4M with an i7-3770 proc and it has run well for a good amount of time. I purchased 3 Dell H310's to replace my problematic SAS2LP-MV8 cards and for some reason i cannot get all 3 of the H310's to work on the ASRock board at the same time. Ive tried putting them into my desktop and they work fine so that tells me its a mobo issue. So, without having to replace my proc and whatnot can anyone recommend a 1155 board i could just swap with?

Asrock H77 Pro4-M:

 

- 1 x PCI Express 3.0 x16 slot (PCIE1: x16 mode)

- 2 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots (PCIE3: x1 mode; PCIE4: x4 mode)

 

One of the slots is only x1 electrically, no wonder the H310 doesn't work, I believe the minimum is x4, ideal is x8.

 

Because of the i7 you can't use a server board, like the Supermicro X9SCM/SCL, try to a get a Z77 board with SLI support, these usually have 2 x PCIe x8 + 1 x PCIe x4

 

e.g.:

 

Z77 Extreme3

 

- 2 x PCI Express 3.0 x16 slots (PCIE2/PCIE3: single at x16 (PCIE2) / x8 (PCIE3) or dual at x8/x8 mode)

- 1 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot (PCIE4 @ x4 mode)

Since I already have the Pro4-M and I cannot get the 3 H310's to work on it wouldn't i be at risk of the same thing happening here if i go with the Pro4?

I was pointing out why your current board doesn't work (though I wrote Pro4 instead of Pro4-M), I said to get something with SLI support like the Z77 Extreme3. did you read the complete post?

I apparently cannot read. Thanks!

Im currently running an ASRock H77 Pro4M with an i7-3770 proc and it has run well for a good amount of time. I purchased 3 Dell H310's to replace my problematic SAS2LP-MV8 cards and for some reason i cannot get all 3 of the H310's to work on the ASRock board at the same time. Ive tried putting them into my desktop and they work fine so that tells me its a mobo issue. So, without having to replace my proc and whatnot can anyone recommend a 1155 board i could just swap with?

 

I don´t know if it´s already been sold, but a have an Gigabyte GA-H77-DS3H (rev.­ 1.­1) and it works fine as the GA-Z77-DS3H as i´ve been told.

Passthrough my Radeons HD 5450 and 6450 and motherboard´s usb 3.0 controller with success.

Running one gpu with a Localized Windows VM and another with OpenElec. The IGFX stays with unraid itself.