Problem using 3 card system in a mixture of PCI-x and PCI slots

As people on this board will know, there is still no i7 motherboard available in the world with 3 contiguous PCI-x slots, while at least one has 2 PCI-x slots and one PCI slot which are right next to each other (i.e., the Supermicro X8SAX board used by at least myself and Third Eye Studios who, together with at least undergroundcubby and DigitalMetal all have the same need for an i7 PC to stably run an HD3 system).

hello kirkgale try finding a mobo with 5 slots like my q6600 loaded gigaabyte, which is not made anymore :-). was wondering if you were in communications with someone at supermicro maybe you could ask them to build as a 5 slot mobo for an I7. good luck to you

Umm.. this has 4 PCI slots which work with PCIx cards.. This has 3 As does this They should all work fine. I use a 33mhz slot motherboard and never had any problems. Personally I am planning to get the ASUS one as a replacement for my current board so I can use an i7 cpu.

Keep in mind the PCI HD cards are the 64bit form PCI slot factor they are NOT actually PCI-X. Later Revisions of the PCI-X spec made the slots backwards capable with 64bit cards so running the cards at 33MHz should be just fine.

Ive just found this which is quite interesting: In the description is says: "System Requirements The System Requirements for the MAGMA 64-bit/33MHz 7 Slot PCI-to-PCI Expansion System is simple: Any PCI-based host computer or server with at least one the following slots: * 32-bit/33MHz PCI slot * 64-bit/33MHz PCI slot * 64-bit/66MHz PCI slot * PCI-X PCI slot The PCI expansion system can perform as fast as the host slot up to 64-bit/33MHz PCI Bus speed (264MB/sec)." and this here on the magma website Interconnect Bandwidth 132 MB/sec (Theoretical Max of PCI 32/33) or 264MB/sec (Theoretical Max. of PCI 64/33)

hey guys will be giving this thread a little more attention later on tonight. yes digi metal we have spoke about this in the past. hope all is well with you :-) . i was asking brandon the other day about his chassis he had nothing but good to say about it. my main question would be, when tracking a live band does using the chassis create any added latency????? this is really the big issue in my workflow.