Sun PCI-X I/O-Boat

Advantages: Solid, good features, reliable,
Disadvantages: Price

...Express Chipset - Intel 915P / Intel ICH6R Express Chipset - Supports Hi-Speed Universal Serial Bus (USB 2.0) Flexible Memory - Four 184-pin DIMM sockets (Un-buffered Non-ECC DIMM) - Supports Dual channel DDR 400/333 (Max. 4GB) PCI Express x16 graphics - PCI Express x16 graphics delivers up to 8GB/s per direction for 3.5 times more bandwidth than AGP8X at 2.1GB/s PCI Express x1 I/O - PCI Express x1 I/O offers 500MB/s concurrently, over 3.5 times more bandwidth than PCI at 133MB/s SATA Matrix RAID - Four ports SATA 150 RAID 0/1, deliver higher performance and data protection - Supports SATA AHCI, providing native command queuing and native hot plug 6 Channel Audio - On board Theater-class 6 Channels Audio - Professional digital audio interface supports auto jack sensing and optical S/PDIF In/Out IEEE 1394 - Supports 3 Ports IEEE... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful

Advantages: Lots
Disadvantages: Few

...Wow. I love this board. It includes all the standard features you would expect from a board this price, such as duel IDE, 2x pci-e x16, 1x pci-e x4, 3x pci 2.2, with 6 x SATA, RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5 & JBOD, decent chipset (590SLI), good Award bios (which has countless options for manual overclocking, and some preset options for this too), HD soundcard (which i find better than my previous ZS Audigy 2 to produce music), dual Gigabit LAN (can be linked by nVidia ntworking options), 4x DIMM (max. 8Gb DDR2-800), 2x e-STAT connectors on I/O, LCD poster on I/O (to show errors/time )2x IEEE 1394, onboard LEDs for working on when powered down....but its got more.....the temps kept low (im running only 1 BIG case fan!) because of the large heatpipe that runs around the CPU and chipset, 3x heat sensors, there is a handy block to attach case connectors... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: easy instal, x16 bandwidth on both slots, 2x gigabit lan, easy overclock
Disadvantages: fan loud on nb

...Memory 4 x 240-pin DIMM sockets Dual Channel DDR2 Maximum of 8GB of DDR2 533/667/800/1200MHz SLI-Ready memory Expansion Slot 2 x PCIe x16, 1 x PCIe Graphics expansion slot, 2 x PCIe x1, 2 x PCI 2 x 32-bit PCI, support for PCI 2.1 Storage I/O 1 x UltraDMA133 6 x Serial ATA 300MB/sec with support for RAID 0, RAID1, RAID 0+1 1 x Floppy disk drive connector Integrated Peripherals 7.1 Channel, Azalia (HDA) 2 x 10/100/1000 Multi I/O 1 x PS2 Keyboard 1 x PS2 Mouse 1 x Serial Ports 10 x USB2.0 ports (6 external + 4 internal headers) Audio connector (Line-in, Line-out, MIC) Form Factor ATX Form Factor Length: 12.0in - 304.8mm Width: 9.6in - 243.6mm Pros: This board will do SLI for Nvidia cards at x16 bandwidth on both Pci-e slots (also has a third pci-e for a physics card 2x gigabit lan ports are really... Read review

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