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I am looking for help in pin-pointing the best motherboard (standard or server) style that will give me the most options for testing PCI cards. My job requires me to test PCI cards (PCI-Express, PCI-X and standard PCI 32Bit/64Bit Host Adapters). Testing 32/64Bit cards in PCI-X slots would be OK because the PCI-X slots are backwards compatible.
The PCI-Express cards I mostly test are 1lane or 8lane cards but having a 16Lane slot would be great but none of the cards I test are graphic cards but I/O cards (Firewire, SATA, USB, Network) so the PCI-Express slot has to be one that allows these types of cards. I have seen some that say - Graphic Card Only and that is a bummer.
Anyway, any help is appreciated and I need a PCI-Express slot that allows I/O cards as well as Graphic Cards or not a graphic card PCI-E and only I/O cards as I will put a cheap graphic card on one of the other slots if needed to drive a standard monitor if the motherboard does not have a standard VGA on-board.
I found this ASUS motherboard so far but worried the the PCI-Express slot is for Graphics Only. Let me know your thoughts.
www.asus.com (K8N-LR)
also SuperMicro has a boards but speed is not important just the flexibility to test PCI cards, so not looking for speed just a test bench solution:
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/matrix/
Thanks for your help, input and suggestions.
All the Best
I am looking for help in pin-pointing the best motherboard (standard or server) style that will give me the most options for testing PCI cards. My job requires me to test PCI cards (PCI-Express, PCI-X and standard PCI 32Bit/64Bit Host Adapters). Testing 32/64Bit cards in PCI-X slots would be OK because the PCI-X slots are backwards compatible.
The PCI-Express cards I mostly test are 1lane or 8lane cards but having a 16Lane slot would be great but none of the cards I test are graphic cards but I/O cards (Firewire, SATA, USB, Network) so the PCI-Express slot has to be one that allows these types of cards. I have seen some that say - Graphic Card Only and that is a bummer.
Anyway, any help is appreciated and I need a PCI-Express slot that allows I/O cards as well as Graphic Cards or not a graphic card PCI-E and only I/O cards as I will put a cheap graphic card on one of the other slots if needed to drive a standard monitor if the motherboard does not have a standard VGA on-board.
I found this ASUS motherboard so far but worried the the PCI-Express slot is for Graphics Only. Let me know your thoughts.
www.asus.com (K8N-LR)
also SuperMicro has a boards but speed is not important just the flexibility to test PCI cards, so not looking for speed just a test bench solution:
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/matrix/
Thanks for your help, input and suggestions.
All the Best
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