Forget about onboard sata, which board has the most 4X pci express slots?

[chrisq]

Hi,

 

 

Now that there is support for at least 1 pci express card that fits in a 4X slot and supports 8 sata ports, can someone recommend a well supported board with at least 3 4X pci express ports? What's the best board with lots of these ports? Something with dual GB ethernet on board, onboard video would be great too. Something server grade like supermicro or intel would be ideal...

 

 

Thanks,

 

Chris

[BRiT]

There are some Asus motherboards that have 4 8x PCI-Express slots (ASUS Crosshair IV, Asus Rampage III Extreme) that will be released soon. They also seem to feature at least 6 onboard SATA ports.

[terrastrife]

775

Asus P5Q Premium

Gigabyte EP45-DQ6 (not sure if all slots can be active at once)

 

1156/1366

there are a crap load, too many to mention but they arent cheap to the point it may be better to buy a 16-24 port card instead

[sosdk]

Supermicro X8DTG-QF

 

6 * x16 full speed

2 * x16 - x8 speed

1 * x8

[WeeboTech]

Supermicro X8DTG-QF

 

6 * x16 full speed

2 * x16 - x8 speed

1 * x8

 

Sweet board, takes gobs of ram too!!!!

Only thing is the mount is Proprietary.

 

http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/QPI/5500/X8DTG-QF.cfm

[terrastrife]

itll probably fit in any case that fits teh evga 4way... which has 7 pcie16x slots (although at 16 or 8 speed)

[sosdk]

Yep 192GB of RAM supported

 

Only problem - unRaid only supports 4GB......

[Joe L.]

Only problem - unRaid only supports 4GB......

Incorrect since unRAID 4.4final

 

From the release notes:

- Experimental PAE support (support memory up to 64GB).

 

[sosdk]

Wow - hadnt noticed that !

 

But still a long way to 192GB...

[purko]

...But still a long way to 192GB...

Some people here reported successfully building unRAID on top of 64-bit Slackware. So you could have 16 exabytes of RAM.

Are you seriously considering running unRAID with 192GB of RAM?

Would 64GB of RAM be too limiting for your purpose?

 

[smino]

Unless you have a Ram Drive for your Cache drive, and the power never goes out, then cool.

[sosdk]

I dont think I'd ever spend the $ to get 192GB RAM in my home server, in near future anyway.....but the idea of a RAM cache drive might be usefull for some business.