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delon
Journeyman III
‎06-19-2018 03:01 AM

Older AMD HW with reliable AMD-Vi support

Hi,

I would like to know if someone has found an older (AM3 maybe) but reliable mobo/CPU combo that supports AMD-Vi and has at least 2 legacy PCI ports. I would like to use PCI passthrough in VirtualBox or VMWare for a PCI card that has no drivers for newer OS'es. I have a friend with heaps of used hardware but - according to many - finding a working combo is quite a time-consuming task and specs are untrue most of the time.

Thanks in advance!

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elstaci
MVP
‎06-19-2018 02:49 PM

What type of Legacy PCI cards are you referring too?  Are using Linux or Windows OS?

This Wiki page list all the CPU and Motherboards that support IOMMU for AMD vi or Intel VT-d : List of IOMMU-supporting hardware - Wikipedia .

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delon
In response to elstaci
Journeyman III
‎06-20-2018 01:45 AM

Thanks for the replay! It's a custom-made, proprietary HW (basically a signal tester device), not a massmarket one. Its drivers work only on Win98 and Win2K.

I know that list but I just cannot believe that only this few, out of the combinations of the hundreds of CPU and motherboard models, are working. I already checked that list and I have access to many mobos but these are, unfortunately, not among them. Sure, I can find them second-hand if they are really the only ones but I still hope someone had success with other model that I might have...

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