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