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Supported motherboards/chipsets for Decklink
Good day everybody,
Is there any way to know which new chipsets/motherboards are supported by BMD, because their sertified list is a little bit old. For example is the P35 chipset supported, X38 chipset, S5000 chipset ? For example we assambled station based on S5000XVN and Decklink SP PCIe and having problem with booting. So what is more reliable maybe you have some information.
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Check this thread out
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/124/867601#867603
X38 will not have problems. Chipset problems were apparent mostly in the plain PCI era where latency etc. issues plagued VIA and nVIDIA chipsets.
Going with desktop motherboards is, I should say always a Hit or Miss situation. There’s always “something” that may go wrong for instance, bad bioses, blue screens, memory incompatibilities, bad eSATA controllers (JMicron – stay away!)The lot…
I managed to have a stable system (Quad Intel) which is very quick in renders, editing, Photoshop etc. But the next one will be a MAC pro. I’ve had it.
Additionally I would suggest going with a newer 3 slot PCIe desktop motherboards(1 that’s 16 lanes and 2 that are 8 lane) So you’re able to put another card in i.e Fiber Channel.
You could always go for maybe a MAC Pro, or Server motherboard.
I hope this helps.
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Thank you for your responde. And what about server motherboards it’s 100% supermicro ? 😉 I explain. We sell decklink cards to our customers for automation software, cg software, I0 card for Macs, sometime for PC’s. So i need a PC that will be working 24 hours a day in a rack, so it’s gonna be servermotherboard, Decklink will be used as output card for Infocaster that will perform as standalone Info channel. So i’m just looking for reliable chipset or serverboards that i can purchase from intel or from supermicro. This 2 vendorers are most popular in our country, so there are no problems with deivery. Any suggestions for Server MB ?
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The only one I think is a quite a good deal is this one:
https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon1333/5100/X7DCA-L.cfm
Because of the 3 PCIe (1 x16 & 2 & x8)slots. and the ATX (Standard PC Case) form factor
Other than that I find Supermicro’s products to have a rather limited range, I mean why isn’t there a 3 PCIe x16 motherboard? They only have a 5 x8 which means you cannot even install a standard Graphics card.
I would suggest looking again at MAC Pro’s they have AMAZING expandability and server class motherboards plus they support PCIe 2.0 and the latest 1600 FSB Xeons. You can always buy a Quad and upgrade later to 8 core or more memory.
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