Hi

I am planning to change my C2SBX workstation board for intel775 and i want to move to AMD

I would like a cpu such as a 65w TDP llano, but i need a mobo with the following specs:

2 PCI-X 64 slots
2 PCI slots
3 pci-e slots

(it is ok if it has 1 PCI and 4 pci-e, but i still need the 2 PCI-X 64 )

at least 4 SATA ports, but 6 or more is better

and since llano has integrated video, it would be nice if it has also video output in order to use it

any suggestion?

Sorry, but that combination just doesn't exist.

1. PCI-X is a server expansion slot and AM3+ is a consumer socket. You will NOT find any AM3+ boards with a PCI-X slot.

2. PCI-X is a legacy expansion slot and has decidedly been replaced by PCI Express due to greater bandwidth and compatibility of parts in different-sized slots. No current chipset has native PCI-X support and any PCI-X slots you see are fed through a PCIe-to-PCI-X switch.

3. No current AMD motherboards I know of have any PCI-X slots and only a small handful of current Intel motherboards do. The closest thing to what you want is the Supermicro H8SSL-i2, which is a apparently a single-plane Socket AM2 motherboard that has limited capability to take dual/triple/quad-core AM3 CPUs (NO six-cores.) It also only has one PCI-X/133 MHz slot, not two.

I did some looking and probably the best way for you to go would be to get the C2SBX's successor, the LAG1366 X8SAX. It has two PCI-X/133 MHz slots, two PCIe 2.0 x16, one PCIe 1.1 x8, and one 32-bit/33 MHz conventional PCI slot. Either that or you can shell out for PCIe-to-PCI-X active riser cards at roughly $150 a pop or replace your legacy PCI-X cards with PCIe ones.

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