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| 608875 | 2007-11-06 19:37:00 | What do modern motherboards use in place of the old PCI Slot? Why the shortage on new boards of PCI? I have an old board (ASUS P4C800 Deluxe, Socket 478) 5x PCI Expansion Slots all currently full. If I move to a modern board I can do away with two of them but not all of them. |
Bantu (52) | ||
| 608876 | 2007-11-06 19:53:00 | A full size ATX board should still have at least 3 PCI slots. mATX usually have two. PCI-Express 1x slots are slowly taking over the old PCI slots but there still aren't a lot of cards available for PCIE 1x slots so PCI is hanging in there. Of cause if you get an SLI board then the second PCI-Express 8x/16x slot takes up another space. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 608877 | 2007-11-06 19:59:00 | Because PCI is becoming obsolete. So is 478 / 754 pin. And a few mobos coming out now, dont have parallel ports either. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 608878 | 2007-11-06 20:13:00 | Or serial ports or PS2 ports | CYaBro (73) | ||
| 608879 | 2007-11-06 20:27:00 | I would only get ASUS or maybe a Gigabyte. Just looking at the Asus P5E3 Deluxe/WiFi-AP@n which I have not checked to see if I can get it in NZ, not that is a problem. It has 2 PCI's which will at least hold my 2 Hauppage cards. Just need to add ram, cpu and a graphic card I guess. My Thermaltake Armour case is more than sufficient to hold a new board. I have no need for serial, parallel, PS2 or floppy drive anymore. My HDD's are a mix of SATA and IDE but the IDE's can go on one of the other PC's. What ever I get it will be old technology the day after I get it:-) |
Bantu (52) | ||
| 608880 | 2007-11-06 22:41:00 | You well find that MB here. www.ascent.co.nz :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 608881 | 2007-11-06 22:48:00 | You well find that MB here. www.ascent.co.nz :) Thanks Trev, but i should be able to get it from my supplier. I am a dealer. |
Bantu (52) | ||
| 608882 | 2007-11-07 19:59:00 | Modern motherboards have most things you would have previously plugged into PCI slots onboard, so there is no need for a lot of PCI slots. What do you have plugged in that requires 5 PCI slots?? |
autechre (266) | ||
| 608883 | 2007-11-07 21:16:00 | Modern motherboards have most things you would have previously plugged into PCI slots onboard, so there is no need for a lot of PCI slots. What do you have plugged in that requires 5 PCI slots?? Currently 2 Promise cards, one additional 3 port firewire card and 2 Hauppage cards. The promise cards allow me to run an extra 4 ATA133 Hard drives/devices off one card and 4 SATA drives/devices off the other. Currently have 7 Hard Drives, a CD Drive and DVD-DL burner hooked up. Plus a couple of external Firewire HDD's for backup. New motherboard would have extra SATA, USB and Firewire ports so probably three cards could go. |
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