Flawed Motherboard?

Matt2889 · 17 Oct 2007 at 10:15

As the title suggests, i believe my GA-P35-DQ6 has a massive flaw. Right behind the slave PCI-E slot there are 4 SATA ports and just above there are another 2. If these ports are in use i cannot add a second card to go crossfire (well with the size of the card i have atm). Has anyone gone crossfire with this board or had such difficulties like this before?

Matt.

Matt2889 · 17 Oct 2007 at 22:40

Bump.

peetee · 18 Oct 2007 at 00:06

wouldnt suprise me, you'll find a lot of mobos these days suffer from stupid design flaws like this.
CMOS clear jumper underneath dual-slot graphic cards, various ports etc, or even chipset heatsinks

james.miller · 18 Oct 2007 at 00:10

right angled sata leads?

Matt2889 · 18 Oct 2007 at 13:00

james.miller said:
right angled sata leads?

I was thinking of that but as the four ports are so close together, the ones underneath the top ports will prevent the right angled sata cables from fitting in

Looks like a new mobo when i want crossfire

Matt.

peetee · 18 Oct 2007 at 13:32

probably just cheaper buying a more powerful card and selling current one than buying another, then a mobo ontop of that!

Matt2889 · 18 Oct 2007 at 17:12

Quite true. But tbh i dont think ill need to upgrade in a while, it was just for future reference tbh. Cheers guys.

Matt.

WJA96 · 18 Oct 2007 at 21:16

The ASUS P5N-E 650 i board is similar in that a long 2nd graphics card obscures the SATA ports. I bought 4 side-entry right-angle SATA cables from a place in California ($85/£40 for 4 delivered!) and that cured the problem. It is a poor design though.

Cob · 18 Oct 2007 at 21:19

WJA96 said:
I bought 4 side-entry right-angle SATA cables from a place in California ($85/£40 for 4 delivered!)

Duuuuuuuuuuuuuude :eek:

WJA96 · 19 Oct 2007 at 05:50

Yes, I know - but at the time I was Mr. P5N-E SLi and it was all that and I was going to run SLi with RAID etc. etc.

And actually, they were beautiful hand-made cables.