[geeks] Socket A mobo with > 3 DIMM slots?

[Nathan Raymond]

On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Phil Stracchino wrote:

> Nathan Raymond wrote:
>> While those last three motheroards are interesting, I've been eyeing the
>> Tyan K8WE (dual Opteron, dual nForce 4 chipset, dual PCI-E x16, three
>> PCI-X slots,
>
> Um ... did you mean PCI-X there, or PCI-E?  I have not yet seen PCI-E
> and PCI-X in the same machine at the same time (which the exception of
> some Prosignias which permit either a PCI-E or PCI-X expansion cages to
> be installed, and therefore have support on the motherboard for both).

I meant both.  Check it out, it's quite the motherboard:

http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8we.html

It's also the only motherboard that runs both PCI-E x16 slots at the full 
x16 lanes simultaneously.

- Nate