Dell PERC 5/i card

[altezza2k2]

I just picked up my Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3P and a Q6600 but am having some problems getting my RAID card working. Im wondering if anyone here has the Dell PERC 5/i card working in a 4x electrical PCI-Express slot even though it is an 8x card? Preferably 16x physical, 4x electrical. Thanks.

 

[thetoad]

Both the Asus and the Gigabyte boards seems to give errors when using non graphics card in the x16/x4 slot. There seems to be indications that it works w/ Abit's IP35-Pro (heard one off cases of people having it working w/ 9650SE and another w/ an Areca). I'm probably going to try w/ a Perc 5/i soon in an Abit.

 

[masteraleph]

Originally posted by: thetoad
Both the Asus and the Gigabyte boards seems to give errors when using non graphics card in the x16/x4 slot. There seems to be indications that it works w/ Abit's IP35-Pro (heard one off cases of people having it working w/ 9650SE and another w/ an Areca). I'm probably going to try w/ a Perc 5/i soon in an Abit.

Funny, you seem to be reading our posts on this over at . Just to confirm: the IP35 Pro does seem to work with both Areca 12*0 cards and the 9650SE, but no one has confirmed a PERC 5/i yet. There are definite issues with GB and it seems with Asus as well.