I'm just posting this to hopefully save someone else the time and frustration that I went through...
I was building a new system based on an ASUS P5E3 Premium (which uses the ICH9R for RAID) and decided to use 4 750GB hard drives that I recently bought for about $100 each. I configured the...
"Again, I have found no motherboard yet that has 3 x16 slots at 3 x x16 electrically."
Not sure if you misunderstood or not. The 790i (and it sounds like possibly the 780 also) do this. 2 slots are PCIe 2.0 (which is like double the bandwith of PCEe 1.1 x16) and 1 slot is PCIe 1.1 x16...this...
790i does require DDR3 which is pricey and that kind of sucks.
But still, this chipset is the only one I know of that supports 3 PCI-e with electrical x16 so if that is a firm requirement, this is currently your best bet. I'm hoping that any day now we'll see some news about the supposed...
As far as I know, only a 790i-based motherboard has what you want...3 PCI-e slots running at 16x electrical. It actually supports 2 PCI-e 2.0 slots running at 16x and a 3rd PCI-e 1.1 slot running at 16x. Only problem is...last I had heard there were some possible corruption issues with these...
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