How to get buy with number lots new motherboards?

[JR]

I currently have an Asus P4C-800 E motherboard (3 Ghz) with the old
standard of full boat 7 or so PCI slots. I am looking at these new
Core Duo motherboards and they have like 2 PCI 2.2 slots (guessing
compatible with the old PCI slots) and 1 PCI Express x1 (whatever this
is) and 1 or 2 PCI Express x16 slots. Now let's look at my needs for
a computer that these motherboards that have everything under the sun
on them won't help:

1. Firewire 800 support (requires add on PCI card)
2. SCSI hard drives so associated card (Requires at least one PCI
card)
3. Prefer own sound card from Creative (requires on PCI card slot)
4. If I make this a media center computer, I have two Hauppauge 350
cards (2 PCI slots)

OK, so if I full boat this, we are talking at least 5 PCI slots I
need. From what I can tell, computers today only come with 2 so how
the heck do people get along with this? Am I missing something?

Thanks.

JR

 

[Rod Speed]

I currently have an Asus P4C-800 E motherboard (3 Ghz) with the old
standard of full boat 7 or so PCI slots. I am looking at these new
Core Duo motherboards and they have like 2 PCI 2.2 slots (guessing
compatible with the old PCI slots) and 1 PCI Express x1 (whatever this
is) and 1 or 2 PCI Express x16 slots. Now let's look at my needs for
a computer that these motherboards that have everything under the sun
on them won't help:

1. Firewire 800 support (requires add on PCI card)

Not necessarily, get a motherboard with that built in.

2. SCSI hard drives so associated card (Requires at least one PCI card)

Toss them in the bin, they are well past their useby date now.

3. Prefer own sound card from Creative (requires on PCI card slot)
4. If I make this a media center computer,
I have two Hauppauge 350cards (2 PCI slots)

That can be done using USB or PCI Express.

OK, so if I full boat this, we are talking at least 5 PCI slots I need.
Nope.

From what I can tell, computers today only come with 2 so how
the heck do people get along with this? Am I missing something?

Yes, that you dont have to do all that stuff using PCI cards.

 

[JR]

Not necessarily, get a motherboard with that built in.

I usually only purchases Asus and they do not seem to have one that
supports Firewire 800.

Toss them in the bin, they are well past their useby date now.

You are joking. I suppose you are using SATA drives right? Those are
no better than crappy IDE. Slow, cause system delays. I'll stick
with Ultra 320 10K SCSI drives anyday. Especially for video rendering
which I do a lot of.

That can be done using USB or PCI Express.

Not sure how the USB factors in here. My cards are PCI based.

 

[Rod Speed]

I usually only purchases Asus and they do not
seem to have one that supports Firewire 800.

Then you need to buy other than Asus if you actually need that.

You are joking.
Nope.

I suppose you are using SATA drives right? Those are
no better than crappy IDE. Slow, cause system delays.

Mindless pig ignorant silly stuff.

I'll stick with Ultra 320 10K SCSI drives anyday.

Then you get to wear the fact that few motherboard
designs cater for someone with such silly demands.

Few bother with SCSI ports anymore either for the same reason.

Especially for video rendering which I do a lot of.

You dont need those drives to do that effectively.

Not sure how the USB factors in here. My cards are PCI based.

Your cards are completely irrelevant, that capability is available
via USB so you dont have to have all those card slots.

The world's moved on. You prefer to keep dinosauring away ? Your problem.

 

[VanShania]

Nevermind Rod, I think he still using a 486. As for your problem I feel your
pain. There was a post on alt.comp.hardware.overclocking where a guy found
some older motherboards for core 2 duo with 4 PCI slots on Newegg(only used
533 or 667 mhz DDR2 ram instead of PC6400 800mhz ram).. And there were some
older ones yet with agp slots only with 5 pci slots. My motherboard has 5,
but I have to use an agp card. It would appear that those of us that like to
add extras will have to wait till PCI-Express X1 or X4 speed tuners etc
become plentyful which may take a while yet. From a write up in Maximim PC
mag or CPU, I know that Creative isn't planning on switching their
soundcards from PCI anytime soon.
You can do an advanced search on newegg and see what you come up with








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