I'm going to be re-building my server in the next few months. I now have two PERC5/i's and a PERC6/i that I'll be using.
Before I was using a AMD 780 based system as the Intel boards at the time didn't play well with the RAID cards without a pin mod, which I wasn't happy doing. I know the X58 motherboards work with these cards, but I'm not into spending £150 on a board and a minimum of £200 on a CPU, after all, I'll need to get some DDR3 memory as well.
It doesn't have to be a killer system, this is just being used as bulk file storage for the time being. I'll be going for a low end CPU in whatever socket I end up with. The motherboard will need either three PCIe 16x slots and on board graphics, of four PCIe 16x.
It looks like a AMD 990 motherboard will work just fine, and I can get that, CPU and memory for under £200, which is fine by me!
Anyone got any input?


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