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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

mother .... board!

The integrated SAS is a real nice touch. I don't understand the reasoning behind the SAS RAID-5 support being an optional configuration though.

Looks really good. I'd also like to see the same feature set with dual CPU sockets and more than one x16 PCIe. All in due course, I suppose. SuperO motherboards are awesome -- they have been solid and reliable for years.
 
Mark L. Pederson said:
yeah - pretty sure 8x gen 2 PCI-E slot has the same bandwidth as a 16x gen 1 PCI-E slot - Deanan?
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It is, however I don't know how well a particular pci-e gen2 gpu/mobo combination will be affected by the difference. It would be good to know since it looks like a great board.

One of the down sides though is that the spacing means you lose one slot with a double wide GPU card.

Im' really looking forward to the dual processor ones.
 
Tai Wah Lim said:
Mark, I am using a Supermicro Desktop with this board with the I7 extreme CPU and 12 GB (just 6 slots to take two sets of 6GB DDR3) and Vista64 to test the Adobe CS4 workflow. So far it is looking good. Lim
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Please start a thread or post a little update on this... I am wondering if I should consider Adobe, something I once never thought I'd think of doing.

I would like to see what this board can do with the i7 series!

Also, I take it you guys are exited about the mobo because of storage posibilities? Are you guys looking at RAID-5? I thought there were no southbridges able to keep up with R3D footage? Are you expecting to be able to use the MoBo for the footage drives and edit 2k?
 
Deanan said:
It is, however I don't know how well a particular pci-e gen2 gpu/mobo combination will be affected by the difference. It would be good to know since it looks like a great board.
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Exactly. And as of right now, there are no PCIe gen2 graphics cards out there. So for any consideration of dual cards, there's only one x16 slot on this board. And the spacing that you mentioned as well.

Im' really looking forward to the dual processor ones.
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Hellsyeah.
 
Yea, but will FC, Premiere and the other usual suspects take advantage of the cores? Where are we at with that? I am only considering Premiere and FC, btw, I think.

And could someone explain the RAID thing? Will you actually edit from an internal RAID5 setup on the MoBo?
 
Jeff Kilgroe said:
The integrated SAS is a real nice touch. I don't understand the reasoning behind the SAS RAID-5 support being an optional configuration though.
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NEVER use motherboard based RAID. NEVER NEVER NEVER. The BIOS configuration systems are always immature and I've never seen one that properly implements S.M.A.R.T. If a disk goes bad I'd put it at less than 50% that an average user could get a new drive in there and get the array rebuilt. Besides, they are not dedicated processors and actually depend on the computer's CPU to do work. Internal RAID cards with dedicated processors cost hundreds of dollars, so how could a $350 motherboard actually have a real RAID solution? Go with 3ware if you want to do internal RAID.

The real use for SAS on a motherboard like this would be for a tape drive and for fast working drives. So you could render from a large internal RAID array to a working disk. If the working disk fails you don't actually loose anything and being able to read from one subsystem and write to another will greatly speed up performance.

All this being stated, you guys think small:

http://www.tyan.com/product_board_detail.aspx?pid=631

Bob
 
All, in my experience, I've never seen an on-board RAID5 controller that was usable (fast enough) for our purposes. If you want to have fault-tolerant, direct-attached storage for editing and VFX work, you will need to :

1. add a RAID controller card, or
2. buy an external e-sata/SAS or FC array with built in hardware RAID controller.

*I would stay away from 3WARE. Consider using a card that makes use of the intel iop348 processor such as ATTO and Adaptec now use for their SAS/SATA controllers. They are much faster than the 3WARE stuff.


***Our next generation redBOXX will provide 6 (six) PCI-E 16X (gen 2) slots for maximum flexibility in configuring the system to integrate nicely into your existing plant/infrastructure.
 
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