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Pheasant Plucker®
My TH7-II RAID has served me well being quick & robust over the last 3 years
and has coped with everything I have ever thrown at it - (the same applied
to my previous mobo, the Asus P2B-LS which also had a 3 year life-cycle).
I am however looking for a replacement for the TH7 because I am being held
back by the CPU speed - currently 2.2GHz - but limited I believe to 2.4GHz
even if you can still find those 400MHz CPU's
Were it not for the fact that I need to use a faster processor I would most
definitely keep it as it gives me everything else I need in a mobo - apart
maybe from those hard to find RAMBUS RIMMS of which I have 1GB but would
have liked to doubled to 2GB!
I also still have a need for ATA RAID - not SATA - and SCSI on an Intel
chipset.
The lack of PCI slots on the latest crop of motherboards also restricts me
as all 5 PCI slots on the Abit are all currently full;
Yamaha SW1000XG
Creamware PowerPulsar
Canopus DVStorm2
Adaptec 29160
3Com 3C200
I guess I could live without the 3COM NIC if the new motherboard has GB LAN
onboard (and possibly SCSI also) which would bring the required PCI slot
count down from 5 to 3
Does anyone have any recommendation(s) on what motherboard(s) I should look
at as a replacement?
Apologies for the crosspost - methinks I need to broaden my horizons and in
any case I need to hedge my bets! ;^)
and has coped with everything I have ever thrown at it - (the same applied
to my previous mobo, the Asus P2B-LS which also had a 3 year life-cycle).
I am however looking for a replacement for the TH7 because I am being held
back by the CPU speed - currently 2.2GHz - but limited I believe to 2.4GHz
even if you can still find those 400MHz CPU's
Were it not for the fact that I need to use a faster processor I would most
definitely keep it as it gives me everything else I need in a mobo - apart
maybe from those hard to find RAMBUS RIMMS of which I have 1GB but would
have liked to doubled to 2GB!
I also still have a need for ATA RAID - not SATA - and SCSI on an Intel
chipset.
The lack of PCI slots on the latest crop of motherboards also restricts me
as all 5 PCI slots on the Abit are all currently full;
Yamaha SW1000XG
Creamware PowerPulsar
Canopus DVStorm2
Adaptec 29160
3Com 3C200
I guess I could live without the 3COM NIC if the new motherboard has GB LAN
onboard (and possibly SCSI also) which would bring the required PCI slot
count down from 5 to 3
Does anyone have any recommendation(s) on what motherboard(s) I should look
at as a replacement?
Apologies for the crosspost - methinks I need to broaden my horizons and in
any case I need to hedge my bets! ;^)