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[RPSE]

I don't know what to do :haha:
I've been searching for hardwares for months but I cannot find anything.
I have no time to search anymore and I hope someone can help. It's not
easy because I don't need SLI. But there's only SLI with passive cooling
and I need passive cooling! I'm not talking about ATI Crossfire because
I want Geforce. The problem is that I cannot find a single motherboard
with more PCI slots and there's no ordinary mb's with passive cooling!!
Have you noticed that you cannot use the PCI slot under the graphic
card on any board? And sometimes not even the next one...

I found this but... well it's just an example on the problem.
ABIT AN8-32X,nForce4 SLI X16 - Socket-939, ATX,
4xSATAII, GbLAN, Firewire, PCI-Ex16

It's hard to find a motherboard with a good layout. There's only 2 PCI slots
on the board above and only 1 PCI will be availble if you run 2 graphic cards.
I don't want to put my Creative Audigy 2 ZS PCI too close to the graphic
card and it's impossible (even without passive cooling on the card) to use
the PCI slot under the second PCI-E. There's more PCI's on some other
mboards but then something else use to be bad. It must be hard to
make it right with such little space

Also I need PCI slots for a video card (composit)
and for different controllers, like RAID or IDE.

 

[CrossFire851]

Well that motherboard you posted is a ATX board, wich will fit in a standered case. You will need something like a sever mobo, but they usally only make them for sever based mobos (and will not fit in an ATX FORM FACTOR CASE). So you are going to have to do more searching.

I will point you in the right dirction.
http://www.newegg.com/ProductSort/SubCategory.asp?SubCategory=302

 

[RPSE]

ty CrossFire851

[LEFT]Thanks CrossFire851

I see there's more PCI slots but I have to check some more later.
I've always had ATX but it seems I have to get something else.

I don't need SLI and I know nothing about servers. But
I think I'll have problem with my ISP because I've read
somewhere that they don't allow server apps...[/LEFT]

 

[CrossFire851]

A sever is a computer. Nothing really differnet other then it's use.

 

[JC_SE]

Isp

[LEFT]It's RPSE with new username.

I know but it's still different. I think I'll have problem with my ISP if I run a server.
So it seems I have to get SLI anyway because I want AMD 64 Nforce4 and support
from Athlon 64 3700+, 64 FX, 64 X2 4200+ at least (socket 939). There's a Asus
A8N32-SLI Deluxe with 3 PCI slots but 2 will be unusable when using two graphic
cards and one is too close with one graphic card only. I'm playing games online
and I need a quiet computer.
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[JC_SE]

PCI Extension

[LEFT]I haven't seen any but there should be an external box for PCI cards since
there's all too few slots on SLI mobos. I would have AMD 64 socket 939
but I'll check out AM2 socket, nforce 590 and DDR2 also. But I wonder if
can I use DDR1 on DDR2?
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[CrossFire851]

Nope, there is not a single differnce between a sever mobo and an atx mobo.