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Does this mobo work well with SATA II?

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Hello all!

I've finally had enough of polishing my VIA-chipset turd motherboard, and am considering buying this motherboard... one thing though - does the physical distance between the PCI slot at the end, and the other two slots, make S/TDM connections with a standard cable difficult? Or not? See, I plan on using three CW cards in it.

Cheers!

Chris

Can't answer that question, but the mobo has worked great for me. I had an ASUS before and it was troublesome, when I switched to the DP35DP everything worked smoothly for audio.

Are there different types? I see there is a Dragontailpeak version. What's that?

It is the DP35DP. They just left out the " T " for tail.
It supports 3.0GB SATA II HDD's.
Personally I will use what I have untill they die, and SSD's are bigger and cheaper.
But right now HDD manufacturers are hurting, except the 300GB SATA II Raptors.
It isn't necessary to have one of those, but I would buy a SATA II Seagate 32MB cache 7,200rpm drive, if I were to stay mechanical.

You guys will love the zero hassle DP35. It's a perfect Scope board, but the USB only is it's only downside. It appears as many manufacturers have gone back to PS2 on the newer 48's & 58's. I had to use a powered USB Hub as a workaround.

Buying a P35 and DDRII RAM is a sound/mature purchase, and cheap as hell right now.

Funny thing I can't find a single review on the iP35 Express Chipset.
Perhaps it's an ABIT IP35 mobo trick.
I am thinking it's an updated P35 with nothing new other than compatabilty w/ DDR-III and DDRII that is 2.0v instead of the 1.8v RAM.
That is good for using with OCZ Flex and other manufacturers that have SPD's for 2.0v which allows high speed and low latency.
Flex DDRII from OCZ is excellent and at 2.0v can run at PC6400 ( DDRII-800 ) at CL4 which is really fast.
I changed my latency on the DP35DP to run at CL5 and see no difference whatsoever in MVPro instances, or VST FX counts.
The DP35DP is so stable I forget that I am using a computer as it has had zero trouble, has been upgraded w/ RAM & CPU twice, and I beat these DAW's every night and day for months on end. Sure Scope runs great once set up right, but all of my apps never crash or cause grief. Same w/ the old 865/965's too.
With a record like that using " slow " Intel boards, it's hard to switch horses.