Hello
I am looking at using the Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 for some servers that we are setting up. I have one reservation with this board - the lack of any PCI-X slots,
Having PCI-X slots brings with it a lot of options such as ability to use existing SCSI RAID cards. Another possibiltiy is the Open Graphics card Project, which I believe will be initially in PCI-X format.
After some research I am led to believe that the only AM2 motherboard with PCI-X is the ASUS M2N32-WS Professional.
With the great work being done on the Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4, I am wondering how applicable this would be for the ASUS M2N32-WS board.
The motherboard is a nVIDIA nForce 590 A serial port header It has a socketed PLCC flash chip (Award BIOS). (It has ASUS CrashFree recovery from a USB flash disk - if this is any use? ) For the additional $100 you get an extra GigE port, +3 SATA ports, +1 IDE port & apparently with 590 you can use both PCIe slots at 16x.
Here are some websites: http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=3&l2=82&l3=0&model=1207&am... http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=2093
So in summary I am just wondering if it would be possible to support a consumer motherboard (AM2) with PCI-X slots.
Charles