@sotech Thanks .
? "idem" ? Latin words , 2000 years old ,that is why , nowadays not much people use them , ; - ) , it means "the same".
-According to this thread and some other, the raid cards work on P8B ws ,
but sometime , Asus sells some stranges motherboards...
There is no NForce 200 on P8B WS and most C20x so it may be ok, but one must test first.
-I have seen that NF200, it is an old chip ,It was at first a Northbridge, NV580 , I believe
( an old Nvidia socket 775 motherboard from 2005 ) , Nvidia resell it now , as a bridge for PCI-Express Lanes.
It is warmer than a CPU (over 90C°) ,because it is overclocked by Nvidia
(hence the heat ) otherwise it would be too slow for PCI-Express 2.0 ,and in fact , it barely reach the PCI-Express 2.0 standard.
See the "Supercomputer" with NF200:
http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1366/P6T7_WS_SuperComputer/
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As for the ECC ,a guy from that Asus Website (Jamon , USA )asked for and did flash his P8B WS to the "704" Bios ,
Asus added his Kingston unbuffered ECC to the QVL list (memory tested and supported), but Memtest86+ does not read his memory as ECC , before and after :
http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20110905135723039&board_id=1&model=P8B+WS&page=1&SLanguage=en-us
I am not a pro , I don't know all the softwares involved in the ECC memory testing , but i am willing to test and learn
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I will probably buy a P8B WS plus two C204 Server motherboards : a Supemicro and a Tyan .I will learn a lot , but i need
some software for testing things...and ECC first , for sure !