I did a quick search for motherboards/mobo on the forum and didn't return hardly any info. Maybe im looking in the wrong area. Sorry if i am.

Either way I was wondering whats everyone using for motherboards? Which ones seem more reliable for 24/7 work? better for multiple video cards?

Thanks in advanced,
Rolo

Motherboards you should NOT buy.

Can't tell you more than that, my ECS K7S5A is reliable for sure, it's about 10 years old now, but you're searching for sure for more recent stuff.

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Mine is discontinued. But here's the link anyway

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Both mine are Asus, but I can't recall which models

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Thanks everyone. Any info is great for me and for others that are wondering the same.

All quite old but 2 of

These

And one of

These

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The kitties are Asus all the way.
Many different models, but all Asus.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

Hey Rob, there might be other ways to find out but I use a program called Speccy. If gives you a ton of info of your system. Heres a link http://www.piriform.com/speccy Hope its ok I add this link.

That would only work on one of my crunchers, the other one runs Linux. The truth is they are both working, are probably obsolete, and while they going I have little concern. When they stop the cruncher will be rebuilt using a new processor, motherboard and RAM, but retaining the data drives. Cruel I know, but they do 24/7 (unlike some of their predecessors which wouldn't do the 24 bit never mind the 7 bit)

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Bob Smith
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Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Been using Asus P6T V2 Deluxe socket 1366 with I7-920 cpu for years.
Supports 2 graphics cards only (Overclocking reliable)

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Asus P6T. Have been running 5 for a number of years. Just upgraded 2 of them to Asus P8Z77.

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Had to make an emergency purchase in local computer store recently (hard to shop the net with a MB that won't try to boot!) Bought an ASUS M4N68T-M V2. It's okay, but the documentation for the BIOS settings is lousy. Unusual options I haven't seen before, and the documentation just says "enabled turns it on, disabled turns it off". No clue as to what impact it has. Hard to believe someone gets paid to write that!

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Another Fred
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I've got an Asrock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 motherboard. Very stable.

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Although my rig is still under construction, due to a previous motherboard failure, I just got a Rampage 3 Black Edition. I should be ready to give it a try this coming weekend.

Steve

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Warning, addicted to SETI crunching!
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For many, many, many years I was an ASUS fan, but I've gone with GigaByte for the past 3 or 4 years.

Depending on your purposes differing manufacture have advantages. Those advantages can also be per product. If your plan is to overclock everything within a micron of it's life a manufacture may have a good board for that. However that robustness may not carry over into all of their products.

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An additional question to this, does the configuration of the PCIe slots on a certain mobo have a huge affect on crunching data? Like if the slots are running x8 or x4 or x16 will it have a huge affect?? Will I/we get the maximum out of these expensive graphics cards?

An additional question to this, does the configuration of the PCIe slots on a certain mobo have a huge affect on crunching data? Like if the slots are running x8 or x4 or x16 will it have a huge affect?? Will I/we get the maximum out of these expensive graphics cards?

Basically: Yes, it does, but not sure if "hughe" apply always...

Some apps/projects will be more afected than others, but even those apps that do little comunications between the main CPU/memory and the GPU will be marginally faster on a PCIe 3.0 16x.
Here in SETI, the kind of PCIe will have more effect on performance over the GPU Astropulse apps. S@H Enhanced GPU tasks should also be affected but will be less noticeable.

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An additional question to this, does the configuration of the PCIe slots on a certain mobo have a huge affect on crunching data? Like if the slots are running x8 or x4 or x16 will it have a huge affect?? Will I/we get the maximum out of these expensive graphics cards?

In the past some users have done tests where they ran their cards at various slot speeds. Comparing x16 to x8 to x4. There is a measurable difference at x4, but not a great amount. I don't recall the numbers at the moment but something like 4% slowdown at x4 and little to none at x8.

Really the only time the PCIe bus is used is the transferring of work to and form the card. With faster cards cranking though work faster that slow down would probably increase. As more tasks are being loaded and unloaded in a given amount of time.

In any case if you want to run a 2nd or 3rd card in a PCIe x4 slot it isn't going to greatly effect its processing. Other things like gameplay or 3D rendering could be a totally different story.

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Both of my systems are 1st gen i7 (930 & 950) using Intel's DX58SO mobos. The oldest one started acting up several months ago and was replaced by the vendor (Tiger Direct) at no charge. Both boards are up 24/7 and are supporting multiple GPUs and I couldn't be more happy with them. When and if I upgrade to a newer generation of CPU, I hope to find a board that will serve me as well.

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I don't buy computers, I build them!!

From a little research looks like you can also use different graphics cards on the same mobo and it should work. But the preferred is to have the same cards.

Is anyone using different graphics cards on the same box??

This is great info. It has helped me with possible decisions and i hope it will help others.