LGA1366 i7 socket motherboard for HD3 system

[glennyb]

Hello!

I've got a HD3 Accel system that i acquired for shockingly cheap along with a G5 and 2 screens. However the G5 is as much use as a chocolate teapot.

I've decided that instead of buying an intel mac and a magma chassis for a ridiculous sum of money i'd rather just move back to PC.

I have a friend who is selling an Intel i7 920, motherboard and 24gb of ram. Sounds great, except the motherboard has only 1 pci slot.

Now there are loads of motherboards that fit an LGA1155 i7 and have 3+ pci slots, but i'm really struggling to find any that fit an LGA1366 i7 and have 3 or more pci slots (and the few that do seem to have the pci slots all over the place so they would be out of range of eachother when connecting with the flex cables).

The simple option would be just buy the stuff new and get a jetway motherboard. But im not particularly flush at the moment and would much rather get the processor + ram on the cheap and just get a new motherboard.


TL;DR - does anyone know of a motherboard that would fit an LGA1366 socket Intel i7 AND a PTHD3 Accel system that will actually work?

Cheers!

[Raoul23]

I would buy a magma P7R4R chassis they are cheap and are just plug and play this is what I did. Filled the chassis with cards and now I have a monster HD rig. I'm using a supermicro board i7 1366 X8 SAX I think that's what its called it wasn't cheap and I used this before I got my magma chassis

[glennyb]

i've had my eye out for them, i guess they do pop up on ebay but all the new magma chassis that i've seen are 1k+ - i could build a monster pc for that.

but if i can find a cheapo one its definitely an option i guess!

[abc1mce2]

2 things. I have an older PCI to PCI expansion chassis (cream colored) that Avid said was not qualified to work with PT 9 or 10 but it does work and it works perfectly. I bought that chassis around 2010 or 11 for $200 as a "just try and see" type deal cause it was cheap and everything worked out. I've used that chassis with several PC builds along side with the old UAD1 pci cards installed in it. The only time it didn't work was with an Asus mobo (more on that below).


The one thing you have to watch out for when choosing your mobo is with the PCI bus. If the PCI slot is connected to your chipset via the PCI-E bus then the PCI slot is of no use to you. For some reason the HD PCI cards don't like to see the chipset via a PCI-E bus. Your HD PCI cards or PCI expansion chassis has to connect to your mobo PCI slot that is connected via a PCI bus to your mobo chipset. The reason I mention this is because is sounds like your trying to go the cheapest route which is with a PCi to PCI expansion chassis. If you went the PCI to PCI-E expansion chassis route, all of the above is a none issue and that's why the Asus mobo I first had didn't work.


I've used Gigabyte mobo since (after I checked for the PCI slot connection) and they have all worked. I can recommend a mobo that will work. but some reason or because of feature and just the very good operation of the mobo to alot of users, it's more expensive on the used market then I remember paying for it brand new. The board is the Gigabtye X58a-ud3r_v2.0. You can find it on ebay but if it's a little to rich for your blood than just look online and check the mobo manual and find the diagram where it shows PCI slots and how it's connected to the mobo chipset.


I hope this helps, drop me a line if you have anymore questions

[zavid]

Originally Posted by abc1mce2

2 things. I have an older PCI to PCI expansion chassis (cream colored) that Avid said was not qualified to work with PT 9 or 10 but it does work and it works perfectly.....

it is the so old beige-cream expansion chassis?
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[Emcha_audio]

The LGA1366 is going the way of the DoDo, so if I were you I'd check for an alternative.

[guitardom]

Originally Posted by Emcha_audio

The LGA1366 is going the way of the DoDo, so if I were you I'd check for an alternative.

1366 has been out of production for quite a few years now.

[Emcha_audio]

Originally Posted by guitardom

1366 has been out of production for quite a few years now.

Yep but you can still find them and still find pieces for them rather easily, but it will become increasingly difficult.