Quote Originally Posted by Serra View Post

The compatibility issue is extremely well documented in DIY circles, both cause and fix. All boards should work with them now. It wasn't that the cards were only designed to work in Dell mobos - that's hogwash - the issue was with bad programming on the part of motherboard manufacturers.
They were made for Dell servers, so in their making, the engineers didn't care in what other mobos they might or might not work - ofc they weren't designed to ONLY work in Dell mobos. As opposed to other controllers such as Areca, Adaptec, 3ware etc who actually try to certify their cards for a s many mobos as they can.
You can always misinterpret other people's statements if you try really hard

Anyway, I wasn't aware that all board work with them now - at least according to the German hwluxx forums, where I followed the official thread on them closely for over a year now, there are still lots of people unable to run a Perc 5 (mainly older Gigabyte mobos but some others as well).

Would be interesting to know if they work in all x58 boards, gonna have to read up on that.

Hopefully I'll be able to go snag some drives today if my local store will price-match Newegg, otherwise it'll have to wait a bit. Either way I'd love to see your benches to compare against once they arrive. PM me with them if possible.
You can find them if you follow the link in my sig saying "Adaptec 5405"