My machine has had a number of gremlims over the last few years, mainly in the HDD department, but numerous HDD checking utilities show all drives are fine, and i have a large number of drives, so the problem can safely be said not to be the drives.
So i have for a long time suspected the SATA controller on my current mainboard is having some issues.
As i don't have USB3 on my current mainboard (i have it as a card in current rig) i don't mind switching out to a new mainboard and probably a new CPU.
My machine was put together many years ago.
So the questions are
A) Can i get a new in the box LGA1366 mainboard with USB 3 and 8 x Sata, that will support my Bloomfield i7 920? and supports triple channel ram x 6
B) What would be a good choice for a new MB + CPU combination that will give me about the same computational power, or slightly more (i don't play games, but i do like an i7), has 8 Sata, support my triple channel DDR3 ram AND has 6 or more RAM slots. The ram i need supported is
* Corsair Vengeance 24GB (6x4GB) DDR3 1600 MHz (PC3 12800)
Current setup is this
CPU
Intel Core i7 920 @ 2.67GHz 46 °C
Bloomfield 45nm Technology
RAM
24.0GB Triple-Channel DDR3 @ 534MHz (8-8-8-20)
Motherboard
ASUSTeK Computer INC. P6T SE (LGA1366) 54 °C
Graphics
LCD3090WQXi (2560x1600@60Hz)
896MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 (XFX Pine Group) 74 °C
Storage
447GB SanDisk SDSSDX480GG25 ATA Device (SSD) 31 °C
931GB Western Digital WDC WD1001FALS-00J7B1 ATA Device (SATA) 38 °C
447GB SanDisk SDSSDX480GG25 ATA Device (SSD) 31 °C
PSU
Cooler Master 1000W Silent Pro
CASE
Cooler Master HAF
So i have for a long time suspected the SATA controller on my current mainboard is having some issues.
As i don't have USB3 on my current mainboard (i have it as a card in current rig) i don't mind switching out to a new mainboard and probably a new CPU.
My machine was put together many years ago.
So the questions are
A) Can i get a new in the box LGA1366 mainboard with USB 3 and 8 x Sata, that will support my Bloomfield i7 920? and supports triple channel ram x 6
B) What would be a good choice for a new MB + CPU combination that will give me about the same computational power, or slightly more (i don't play games, but i do like an i7), has 8 Sata, support my triple channel DDR3 ram AND has 6 or more RAM slots. The ram i need supported is
* Corsair Vengeance 24GB (6x4GB) DDR3 1600 MHz (PC3 12800)
Current setup is this
CPU
Intel Core i7 920 @ 2.67GHz 46 °C
Bloomfield 45nm Technology
RAM
24.0GB Triple-Channel DDR3 @ 534MHz (8-8-8-20)
Motherboard
ASUSTeK Computer INC. P6T SE (LGA1366) 54 °C
Graphics
LCD3090WQXi (2560x1600@60Hz)
896MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 (XFX Pine Group) 74 °C
Storage
447GB SanDisk SDSSDX480GG25 ATA Device (SSD) 31 °C
931GB Western Digital WDC WD1001FALS-00J7B1 ATA Device (SATA) 38 °C
447GB SanDisk SDSSDX480GG25 ATA Device (SSD) 31 °C
PSU
Cooler Master 1000W Silent Pro
CASE
Cooler Master HAF