rschultz101 Posted November 13, 2006 Share Posted November 13, 2006 currently looking at new motherboard,... ABIT AW9D-MAX , maybe,... have a load of sata drives, 6+ photo storage, on ext3 and ntfs,... tired of shuffling them around,.. want a desktop, with thedrives in it, and laptop access over gigabit, could not find any pci express sata controller info,.... so ASUS P5LD2-VM R2.0 might not be a good start,... and does not have firewire, what will use a slot,... sound, builtin graphics would be nice to, the cheapest dual core,... E6300, thought the AM2 amd X2 chips use less power, but don't know how well they run,... low heat a plus, or cheap combo + low heat a consideration, only have 10.4.5, torrent at 3kb/sec usenext at 300kbye/sec, of course no 10.4.8, please, - no NTFS read/write ??? - no ext3 mount/ read/write ??? notebook, compal hel80 on the list,... core duo + nvidia ? conversion stress, is killing me, yeah, mac notebook, looks like grandma is getting one for christmas, thanks, Robert Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/33045-server-core2-duo-7-sata-esata-motherboard/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
rschultz101 Posted November 13, 2006 Author Share Posted November 13, 2006 not really a hardcore overclocker, but reliability is nice, usually go for asus,... AI NOS sounds interesting, ABIT AW9D-MAX http://www.nordichardware.com/Reviews/?pag...p;skrivelse=489 of course -100c is not something for home, but shows, how stable the board can run layout wise, and the con, of the caps close to the socket, think it is a positive, asus is also there, but hitting astronomical prices,... p5wdg2-ws asus still like to hear from others in therms of 6+ sata support !!! any plain vanilla, server boards sata 6+ 8pref , gigabit lan, e-sata,firewire,sound, thanks, Rob Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/33045-server-core2-duo-7-sata-esata-motherboard/#findComment-233518 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rschultz101 Posted November 14, 2006 Author Share Posted November 14, 2006 boy , quiet around here,.... what cheap fanless graphics card you'd recommend, since those 6+ sata boards don't have one, ??? firewire 800, 1394b pci-express cards ?? motherboards , mobo with 6+ or 7+ 1 Esata wanted!!! thanks, Robert Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/33045-server-core2-duo-7-sata-esata-motherboard/#findComment-234330 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorosh Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 Both Asus P5B Deluxe (P965 chipset) and Asus P5W DH Deluxe are great boards, with eSATA and 6 SATA drives. They both have dual gigabit. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/33045-server-core2-duo-7-sata-esata-motherboard/#findComment-234477 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rschultz101 Posted November 15, 2006 Author Share Posted November 15, 2006 ok, the p5b has 5 sata, jmicron the p5w has 6 sata + esata the abit has 4 + 2 +2 4 of them on silicon image 3132 looks like on those board 4 sata are on intel, and others on some sort of raid chip, question is , if all sata ports are working without patching ? of course, at least one gigabit needs working on the abit it has pci, soundmax board ? last, these, don't have graphics, ? 7600gs or 7300gt anything else ? primary use, storage, photo editing, kids playing games just need a litle help, don't need raid, just disk access, and to convert everything to firewire is a mess, thanks, Rob still no 10.4.8 Jas, not on usenet,usenext Both Asus P5B Deluxe (P965 chipset) and Asus P5W DH Deluxe are great boards, with eSATA and 6 SATA drives. They both have dual gigabit. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/33045-server-core2-duo-7-sata-esata-motherboard/#findComment-234611 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rschultz101 Posted November 15, 2006 Author Share Posted November 15, 2006 one more, Asus P5B Deluxe (P965 chipset) has an GMA X3000 ? anybody have the p5b working, lan,sata,sound, graphics ? it's and 965x chip, suppose to be problematic for installs, don;t want to buy ide sata adapters, and loose 1-2 sata ports for dvd drives ,... so far could not find any pci express sata controller board for osx86 eather, thanks, Rob ok, the p5b has 5 sata, jmicron the p5w has 6 sata + esata the abit has 4 + 2 +2 4 of them on silicon image 3132 looks like on those board 4 sata are on intel, and others on some sort of raid chip, question is , if all sata ports are working without patching ? of course, at least one gigabit needs working on the abit it has pci, soundmax board ? last, these, don't have graphics, ? 7600gs or 7300gt anything else ? primary use, storage, photo editing, kids playing games just need a litle help, don't need raid, just disk access, and to convert everything to firewire is a mess, thanks, Rob still no 10.4.8 Jas, not on usenet,usenext Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/33045-server-core2-duo-7-sata-esata-motherboard/#findComment-234630 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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