Doug, This may answer your question: http://forums.amd.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=203&threadid=117391 On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sep 15, 2009, at 9:45 PM, Majed B. wrote: >> >> Regarding payloads, I've recently bought an EVGA motherboard off >> newegg for $120 and it supports upping the payload to 4096 bytes. >> >> Newegg link: >> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188035 >> Manual guide: http://www.evga.com/support/manuals/files/113-YW-E115.pdf >> >> The motherboard above has 8 SATA ports, built-in VGA (256MB, if you >> care), 1x Gbit LAN, 4x RAM DIMMs and a few more options. I use it for >> my primary array: 8x1TB disks. >> >> ASUS gaming motherboards allow changing the payload as well. > > > So far I've not found a single motherboard that supports this *and* uses AMD > CPUs. This appears to be an Intel feature only. I'm sure my manager would > prefer if I can get this performance upgrade with only a motherboard swap > instead of a motherboard, CPU, and possibly RAM swap. > > -- > > Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx> > > GPG KeyID: CFBFF194 > http://people.redhat.com/dledford > > InfiniBand Specific RPMS > http://people.redhat.com/dledford/Infiniband > > > > > -- Majed B. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
