Motherboard with the max number of PCI slots

[gamikuala]

Hi all, 

I have to build a computer for my lab at work. we need as many PCIe slots as we can get.

The motherboard should fit in a 19 inch rack mount pc case. 

Also we would like to have two hard-drives to run it in a RAID configuration for data collection and an SSD drive for booting.

And if you can suggest a case for the new computer too that will be great.

For the CPU we need it to be fast, preferable not less than 4-cores, and what kind of RAM will be compatible with it.

for now we don't require a GPU

money is not a problem, go wild

 

Thanks a lot.

[WereCatf]

14 minutes ago, gamikuala said:

we need as many PCIe slots as we can get

What size do they need to be?

[Damascus]

Are we talking about 4u or 5u cases here, or something smaller?  ATX will max out at 7 16x PCIe slots while standard E-ATX hits, at most, 8 slots.  If you're willing to take a hit on bandwidth, mining motherboards can have up to 19 pcie x1 slots

[gamikuala]

16 hours ago, WereCatf said:

What size do they need to be?

good qustion, but before I answer that I would like to point that I would like to get 7 PCIe, if I get 7 I will be so happy.

Of course the easiest answer would be "all of them should be x16" but as I don't think that will be possible here what cards we need to run:

One PCI 

two  PCLe x1

One PCLe x8

two PCIe x16

and an additional two PCIe x4 would be great

17 hours ago, Damascus said:

Are we talking about 4u or 5u cases

we are talking about a 3u case, I think 7.

 

We were using H97-PRO, but I could not find anything like it.