66Mhz PCI Card support

So very few motherboard manufacturers say anything more that X amount of PCI slots in the specification of their boards. I'm assuming this is because most are simply 32bit, 33Mhz slots. So, what kind of boards offer support for 32bit, 66Mhz PCI slots? I know 66Mhz PCI cards are fully backwards compatible, but what ...

Windows Hardware 9627 This topic was started by BladeRunner, 2002-01-23 17:08

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BladeRunner

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2002-01-23 18:08

So very few motherboard manufacturers say anything more that "X amount of PCI slots" in the specification of their boards.
I'm assuming this is because most are simply 32bit, 33Mhz slots.
So, what kind of boards offer support for 32bit, 66Mhz PCI slots?
I know 66Mhz PCI cards are fully backwards compatible, but what kind of board/chipset would offer the faster PCI slots?

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sapiens74

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2002-01-23 18:48

Mostly just dual CPU boards. I've seen soem from ASUS and TYAN for the AMD and INTEL platforms

Palos

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2002-01-24 11:42

Are you talking about x86 architectures here?
If not, pick any SUN mainboard, including the hot-swappable babies with 4 UltraSPARC III CPUs support on the E10000

CUViper

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2002-01-24 12:43

Mmmm SUN..... and people complain about Intel being expensive....

BladeRunner

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2002-01-24 15:47

Cheers.
It just I've got a Promise TX4 IDE RAID controller now.
Nice piece of kit really with 4 independent IDE channels on, so I can run my 4 HD's in RAID 0+1 with each drive on it's own IDE channel.
Anyway, this card is a 32bit 66Mhz card, of course it quite happily fits into a standard 32bit/33Mhz slot, but was thinking what kind of improvements there would be by plugging it into a 32bit/66Mhz slot.
Just wondered how common they are really, I'm guessing they will become more popular and will become common on future chipsets.