Suggestions for P55 Socket 1156

[saaya]

blue tooth, ill check it out

One thing a couple of gamers mentioned to me yesterday is that would love something like a Killer nic card included like some boards have xonar or x-fi sound cards.

welllll i looked into that actually but im rather sceptical... i found one review where several people were invited to play on a test machine, first with and then without the killer nic, and they either didnt notice a difference or thought the second time the nic was installed, when it was actually installed the first time. that was probably their imagination cause thats what you expect, first without and then with...

and another thing is, the reviews that DID say the card helped, all said that it only helped on systems with a slow cpu, so the nic card takes care of all the traffic requests and its faster cause the cpu doesnt have to do it anymore...

idk... it might all have to do with what game you use and what internet connection you have as well... but all in all im rather sceptical... its a cool innovative thing, but its quite expensive and i find it weird that there is no scientific review that really shows lower pings or faster fps... at least nothing above a 2% improvement or therabouts...
and even if it would work better, then it would probably cost at least 50$ to integrate with the licensing fees and all, and it would take quite some pcb space, need a lot of r&d time etc...

Hello

Well, this great for asking.
Well, here in Portugal, one thing that i see is that many of my costumers buy and specially since the crysis in all the world because of money and all sort of things, the cheapest motherboards but with quality.

One thing that i would like to see in an motherboard, in an motherbaord with
not so many extras like sas that here nobody uses and lose the second pci-e
slot for example.

So in this i think, good price / cost motherboard is :

-> 1x pci-e Slot 16x
-> 1x pci-e Slot 1x ( above the pci-e 16x )
-> 1/2x pci-e slot 4x
-> 2x pci slot ( the normals ) for tv tuner and older pci device.
( forgive me if i dont do the math´s for the lanes ).

-> Bios with ZIF socket ( of exchange in case of corruption )
-> SPI connector for recording and reading bios with apropriate device
-> Display led ( if i not expansive ).

-- Connections on the backside :
-> ps2 conector for mouse and keyboard
-> plenty of usb connectors
-> no firewire
-> 2 esata connectors
-> audio onboard good quality with optical/rca output


-- In the motherboard
-> 6 sata connectors -> lay down in motherboard as in dfi p45jr
-> passive cooling for the SB but in place that dont interfere
with dual cards like gtx 295 , that kills the airflow of the SB.



Things that personally i would like to see because of the "dumb" ones :

Really big stick in cpu socket about damage pins.
and some protection in the SB chip because of the replacement of the
heatsink.

if foxconn has an good motherboard and simples, meaning users dont have
to pay for what they dont use, that is commercially ok, than it´s sales ( that
is the purpose in the end, proffit ).

Thanks

well, its better to add a second 16x slot even if its not used by most people
do you really think 2 pci are necessary or is one ok?
FlamingBlade, our sub 200$ X58 has 2
bios socket, yepp
spi connector? nobody uses that anymore here, they all use adapters hooked to the bios sockets, they are cheap, try it
asus copied us and is using the same sockets now and i think some other board makers also followed
what do you mean with display led?
what do you mean with sb protection?

Suggestions? release the board not 4 months too late.....and after the release it should be available....not like the bloodrage......

ill forward that
but this is not really helpful, its like telling foxconn to have the first board on the market, have it perfect and everything 100% working and compatible on day1 of the release, have all features, the best ocing results and the lowest price

Keep the "frilly" features to a minimum so the price is decent. That's my only request.

well its hard to tell whats filly and what not, whats frilly for me might not be filly for others thats why i created all the polls here, so get a better feel for what people want and dont want, after all we build these boards for YOU

1... 256k raid stripe adavible in raid & sas
2... extra pcie slot at least X8 for hardware raid
3... at least ability to water n/b
4... sata 6gb
5... picture of nude redhead midget in center of board
thats all nutten much

1. thats something we cant add, gotta ask intel or marvell about that, im sure its possible to change in their firmware
2. ok
3. ok, FlamingBlade comes without the waterblock but the same heatsink array so you can use a waterblock or other cooling on there.
4. not ready yet... :/
5. nude redhead ok, but midget? why midget? ^^