i was looking at this pic and i was wondering: Do you have to remove the vga first if you want to remove your memory?
Because the clip of the mem slot is awfully close to the pcb of the vga :stick:
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i was looking at this pic and i was wondering: Do you have to remove the vga first if you want to remove your memory?
Because the clip of the mem slot is awfully close to the pcb of the vga :stick:
It's a very tight fit but you can replace the memories without taking out the video card. I've done it many times.
get used to it. this is what happends when you get the next line of videocards....they are monsters. Enjoy removing your precious videocard everytime you want to change out memory! Quite frankly, theres nothing ati can do about it motherboard wise, unless they totally re-design the boards and have the memory going horizontal, which i think is a waste of time since this layout is great. As for graphics card wise, you all want power, and power means big :). you never see a dinky smally geo doing 200mph do you...Quote:
Originally Posted by Jack
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Originally Posted by Grayskull
Yea... on some motherboards you can just BARELY get the memory out. Its a tight fit, but it will get out. If you dont feel comfortable then you can always remove the video card from the slot, but still leave it in position so you dont have to fully remove it.
edit: what case is that??
ah thank god :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Grayskull
i know :) my 6800LE is about the same width as my mobo :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Kobalt
Just wondering, can you print an image over the entire board, sortof like printing a images over the PCB before you put on the components? I wanted to know, because I wouldn't mind having a mobo with a great big Canadian flag on it. :D
Kobalt, I believe that case is the Antec Super Lanboy. My brother got one for Christmas and it's awesome. :cool:
Yes it's an Antec case. Not the "prettiest" but it's very functional.
now that your activly posting, any plans on SATA II or better yet SAS?
imo :
the serial and parralel can be left away... maybe optionally available as pci card (if really necessary)
Onboard sound is also too much, especially since a lot of ppl are not really satisfied by it.
onboard VGA is really unnecessary, except for any oem
2 Pci-e 16x slots for the coming multi rendering if i remember correctly?
1 or 2 pci-e 1x slot(s)
3 pci slots (maybe 1 or 2 between the pci-16x slots which can be left away by the extreme overclockers with big cool ideas for the gpu's
2 x ide
2 x sata
4 memory banks which is very usual
a chipset with a good cooler on it, also with easy common mounting holes for zalman/water/other
a bios with upto 1.8v vcore and 3,0v vdimm settings, if the real diehard overclockers want more out of it,they'll mod it anyways ;)
maybe you could make sure that the ocz ddr booster works on the board... since it doesn't just work on any board... and it is a hot overclockers device ;)
and what i'd personally really LOVE is when they brought out a great s939 board with agp on it, since a lot of high end agp cards are still used ;)
And of course big thanks for asking for our ideas/opinions ! :)
Heh heh, I have an Antec P160, and love it even more than my old Lian-Li PC65B. :D Gotta love 120mm fans, front & back, without needing to hack up your case. :cool: Nice RAMsinks on that vid card. I'm in the process of making some with copper bases, with big aluminum fins similar to those. :D Hmm, no onboard LAN? :mad: ;) I don't think I even own a NIC card anymore. :( No prob, those are easy to get, just do what ya gotta do to make a killer board. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Grayskull
I haven't seen it mentioned that much but if it can be managed board layout.
Making the IDE connectors 'edge' style (90 degrees from the normal vertical and placed overhanging the edge) really help with getting everything plugged in. Also having the ATX and 4-pin power connectors on the edge help too.
MOSFET cooling is always a great plus, several companies (Giga, Chaintech and Abit) have done active MOSFET cooling and it seems that if done right its a huge boost for the system.
The RAM slots and making sure they don't interfere with the video cards or CPU coolers is also something that some boards have had issues with lately, out of the way ram locaction.
besides stuff already mentioned I tihnk that covers what I've got
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Originally Posted by Arkangyl
i agree the edge style connectors are very convenient and make ribbon cables much easier to manipulate.
Grayskull,
Will you make a chipset that uses AGP. I, like many other people, have just bought x800 xt (AGP) and I am not ready to buy a PCI-express when I don't need it.
Regarding the ide's, I have 7 HDDs only one of them is SATA, so if you can put 3 PATA ide's (1 for optical drives, 2 for HDD's) that would be very nice (even as an option).
Being able to mount the big fans is a plus because they make a lot less noise and move roughly the same amount of air.
On board lan is there if you look closely. :)
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Originally Posted by spaceman
Unfortunately AGP is becoming more and more obsolete and it doesn't make sense to develop an AGP product at this point in time.
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Originally Posted by SHiRaKaWa
if you want AGP... theres plenty of NF3's that are great AGP boards out right now to choose from.
I agree...
supporting AGP any further, isn't a good idea.
the markets definatly moving forward, and three different kinda videocard formats just isn't good for the market.
PCI videocards are fine, PCI-EX makes sense...
but AGP is obviously being phased out, and best it just be left out, cause then in a year, it won't be a issue to make PCI EX boards, and hearing people want AGP versions.
only the msi is good at overclocking as far as i have read... and i have te board...Quote:
Originally Posted by Kunaak
compared to all the others, its a great board...
but it can use a lot of improvement...
if there should be anyone who could make these improvements... it should be ati...
i think it'll cover a lot of ppl who are doubting about going amd 64 s939 but not wanting to buy a new vcard as well
why cant you just sell your current videocard??? Or even trade it with someone
I think someone said this already, but you should try to create some interesting dividers. I know most people might not use them, but I would try them. Try making like 1:2, 1:3, something big jumps, so ram becomes less of a problem of holding us back from high fsb's. Also, if you could, try to incorporate one PCI-X slot. Some people might not use them, but some could use them for a raid card.
already have 2:1 on A64 boards.
3:1 would be great :D
and i just had my x800xt for a few months... if i'd sell it now, i'd have thrown away 100-200 euro's just like that, because the x850 is coming ...
somebody needs to make an agp to pci express adapter of some sort :stick:
that's brilliant. solves everythingQuote:
Originally Posted by Kobalt
Good Idea, but I'm almost sure it's impossible... In anyway, can the chipset support three different, including SLi?
according to a recent article on the inquirer, ati does amr (ati word for sli, amr = ati multi rendering) without the bridge. it gets done all through the chipset.
Link: http://theinquirer.net/?article=20457