Will a PCI64 bit card work on my Asus A8N-SLI Premium ?

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I've been given a Dell CERC Sata Raid controller and I want to know if it will work on my Asus A8N-SLI Premium MoBo - I believe the 64 and 32 bit cards are cross-compatible but I would like confirmation !

Questions:

Q1 - Are the 32bit A8N PCI slots 33MHz or 66MHz ?

Q2 - Will a PCI64bit x 66MHz work in the PCI slots on my MoBo ?

Q3 - At the moment I am using the Nforce raid in a mirror config. Will the Dell CERC controller (64bit card in a 32bit slot assuming it will work) be much faster ?

Cheers !
 
Hi I had an X2 4400 on that motherboard and tried a Adaptec 2410SA SATA raid card, which is also a 64bit card. The card worked fine but would not allow the onboard SATA controllers to be bootable, tried various configurations for a whole day but gave up in the end. Worked fine on other Asus A8N-E based machine, not sure why. Anyways I have it set up running a RAID 5 array and it is plenty quick enough, left the onboard silicon image 3114 for dead.
 
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