Advise on MOBO choice

[ccc29249]

Can anyone advise me on the following. Im looking for a motherboard with the following basic features.

Agp slot x8
PCI 2.2 compliant with 32bit/66mhz support

I have been unable to find a board which supports 32bit/66Mhz PCI, but i really do need one to fully utilize my raid controller + Raptors (sigh).
It does not matter which CPU the board is for, although socket A is preferable.

 

[TheRod]

Humm... I don't understand your point! Today's motherboards are all AGP 8x and PCI 2.2 compliant.

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[Crashman]

You could use an onboard RAID controller, Intel and nVidia both offer on-chipset RAID with the additional bandwidth you need.

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[ccc29249]

Sorry but i've totally forgot to mention my systems specs.
I already have an onboard controller, which i have replaced with a 4 ch. sata raid controller. This controller is however only running at half speed since the PCI bus on my mobo is locked at 33Mhz. PCI spec 2.2 allows for 32bit/66Mhz speeds on the bus, which is exactly what im looking for, but i cant seem to find a motherboard which supports this.

System specs.

ASUS A7N8X-E deluxe
Radeon 9800Pro
4 x WD Raptor connected to a Promise Fasttrak S150 SX4 4 ch. sata raid controller.
Watercooled AMP XP2600 Barton at 2400Mhz.

 

[Crashman]

You'd be looking at server boards to make good use of that card. Of course nVidia offers an on-chipset SATA RAID controller with 4 SATA channes (and 2 IDE channels that can be mixed in the RAID array).

You could wait a few weeks for PCI-Express, since x1 is around 2x the speed of standard PCI, but then you'd need a new card.

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[Obtuse]

Are you looking to do raid 5? Is that why you need the card. Because otherwise, grab a board that already has 4x sata raid. Of course, some of the add-on sata controllers are just patched into the pci bus anyway, so make sure you get one that's not.

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[ccc29249]

No im not going for raid-5. I own a Promise Fasttrak S150 SX4 4-channel sata raid controller and 4 WD Raptors (Raid-0), and i want to make sure that i get the right board for these babies. This requires that the board supports 32bit/66Mhz PCI (included in then PCI specs since rev. 2.1).
However no mobo manufacturer lists this as a "feature".
They all claim their boards to be PCI 2.2 compliant, although most of them arent capable of running the PCI bus at 66Mhz. I currenly have a Nforce2 Ultra 400 mobo, and it does not support this for sure as i only get approx. 107 mb/sec (burst read) and approx. 62mb/sec when doing sequencial reads. This is well below what should be possible with my "drive kit".

The bottom line is:

Im looking for a board which has an AGP slot (rules out any server boards) and are certified to be able to run the PCI bus at 66Mhz.