Can anyone recommend some motherboards that have dual PCI Bus Segments and will work with the Mojo?

Thanks.

I am using a SuperMicro Superworikstation 7045A-T which incorporates a SuperMicro X7DAE motherboard. Best PC I have ever used.

To save a lot of testing and hair pulling, disable onboard sound first thing and install a SoundBlaster card for $30-$40.

Installed two WD  74GB Raptor's for C:\ and two 140GB for D:\ as well as a WD 1TB hard drive to back up stuff. These are striped and are pretty fast.

The six Seagate 147GB SCSI hard drives installed in a stand-alone cabinet are controlled by an Adaptec 39160 card.

Installed a PYRO firewire card for MOJO.

All working just fine.

UPS is to deliver a Fujitsu scanner Monday that will connect through the USB connector.

For printing DVD labels I have an Epson R800 connected through another USB port and the Media Composer key and Sapphire key are installed in the seven-slot USB hub.

"Knock on wood," all is working very smoothly.

Don R.

erik, see my system specs, the thing works well, as a freelance editor I happen to work on all sort of systems and I know how this box does compared with the approved ones; the onboard firewire is not TI and I only use it for external disks; I've installed a Pyro PCI 64 for Mojo; I have a FW800 PCI card that drives a few external HDs with no conflicts with Mojo, and my best guess is that it could be replaced with a SCSI or eSata card at will. I recently installed two internal Sata II 1TB disks striped for HD mediafiles (that need room and also faster drives than SD). Also note that I've installed ECC memory chips. I understand that this hardware will not drive the new Avid DX DNAs however. If I was to buy today I would go for a Quad core cpu and a bigger Quadro card. I'll test this box with MC3 as soon as I can, please feel free to ask if You need additional info.

 I would also Look into the Tyan motherboards. The Tyan S2696 which can be found on newegg for abbout 380.00  There are two versions of it one has a SATA controler and the other one has a SAS controller.

This motherboard is pretty much what HP uses in there systems. If you tear one open its really the same board with some custom things HP like to add.

Wonderful board I am running it with a Quad core Xeon right now and will soon pop in another. I has two Frontside busses that peak at 1.3Ghz

erik, sorry I did not pop in for a while, the Pyro is in the PCI slot located at the top of the board (the one closest to the processor).

ok, thanks.

DonR,

I'm looking to buy SuperMicro X7DAE motherboard. Any compatibility issue between this main board and the new MojoDX?

Fred

creativethinker:

 ... I would also Look into the Tyan motherboards. The Tyan S2696 which can be found on newegg for abbout 380.00  There are two versions of it one has a SATA controler and the other one has a SAS controller...

I've seen the specs (and those for the SuperMicro); while the Tyan mobo is oversized for an old style Mojo it seems to be fit for the Mojo DX. I understand that SAS is compatible with SATA drives, is there any benefit running SATA II disks on a SAS controller instead of running the very same HDs on a SATA controller?

Since I had bad luck with Tyan motherboard, I called supermicro to ask few question about compatible motherboard with Avid as well as same feature as Tyan motherboards. The S2696.

They told me that this coming July or August they will have few new board compatible with Avid and similar to Tyan Tempest i5000XT.

They also told me they have a compatible board for Avid MC with Mojo. (Supermicro X7DWA-N)

Anyone here with the good lock on this particular board?

Fred

My apologies: I've misinterpreted Wikipedia and perhaps SATA HDs cannot be run off a SAS controller. Regarding a mobo for Mojo, as by the approved systems list, it appears that the analog Mojo/Mojo SDI and Mojo DX run on the HP xw4600, a single processor Intel X38 chipset based workstation (like my Maximus formula box), while the Nitris DX needs a twin processor Intel 5000 chipset based system (like the SuperMicro/Tyan above, but there are offerings from Intel and Asus too (the Asus being the more iffy of the lot)). If building a system for old Mojos/Mojo DX one could bet on an X38 setup (and regarding old fashion Mojo I can verify that), while if going for Nitris DX the Intel 5000 seems to be a safer bet (and the Tyan motherboard is the closest match to an approved HP xw8600 AFAICT). Given that the analog Mojo is being discontinued, Mojo SDI lacks HD capabilities, and Mojo DX lacks analog video, the Nitris DX seems the way to go, and therefore an Intel 5000 motherboard is a must (unless Mojo DX is improved and/or its price goes down). As of today the certified HP xw8600 is cheaper than a DIY box, at least with how the pricing goes here in Italy (I know: it sounds like a paradox, doesn't it?), but an approved Mac Pro is even more affordable than the HP; again: I understand pricing may be different from country to country. As for me, I'll try to borrow a Mojo DX from a reseller to take a test drive on my box, but do not hold Your breath waiting for my experiments: I know this is going to take some time as the Avid resellers here in Roma apparently do not have the new hardware on their shelfs right now (the new stuff is going to be demoed sometimes in the next few days at an Avid event in Milano) and I'll also have to be in between jobs to play around with the new Avid toys; also I'm not in a hurry to buy DX hardware: as an offline solution I'm quite happy with my current setup, while I may try a MacFly solution for HD monitoring.

To clear some things up: The mobo in the HP xw8600 is supposedly based on the Tyan Tempest i5400XT a.k.a the S5396.

http://www.tyan.com/product_board_detail.aspx?pid=562

http://www.aja.com/html/support_xena_rec_sys.htm

This uses the Intel 5400 chipset (as does the new Mac Pro) not the older 5000, this is what you should be looking for on boards for DIY systems. The HP mobo is superior for Avid purposes though as it has seven slots rather than the six you get on pratically all Xeon server boards.

I've been agonising myself about whether to self build or go legit. Bizarrely, as Luca says, Mac Pros come out cheapest at the moment, probably for the first time in history! Recently installed XP Pro on a new 8 core Mac and it ran like a dream, as it should, being very similar to an xw8600. What put me off slightly though is that XP would only see about 2.5 gig of the 6 gig of ram installed, rather than the 3.4ish you can get a normal pc to see.

fiendish:

To clear some things up: The mobo in the HP xw8600 is supposedly based on the Tyan Tempest i5400XT a.k.a the S5396...

Thank You for jumping in, and ops, correct, totally: perhaps the i5000 is the chipset of the HP xw8400, if memory serves.