6 PCI??!?! How many more are we expecting?

[Eug]

Plus the fact that people block their first PCI slot with monster GPU fans.

My 4 slots are used up, because of this.

EDIT: freebee beat me to it.

 

[PlatinumGold]

hmmmm. my next board will be the N415. onboard sound, lan, agp. WTF am i gonna need a pci slot for?

 

[CocaCola5]

I could use more pci slots,

ATA100 controller
ATA100 controller
UW SCSI
PCI controller(parallel port, serial)
SB live Platinum
NIC

No more room for any Firewire or USB 2.0 card.

 

[Amused]

<< Instead of more PCI slots, how about a little more space between them so large heat sinks/fans have some room to operate. All too often the slot next to the agp card can't be used if you put a large heatsink on the vid card. Also with some devices, they are just about touching each other, which is probably not good from a heat perspective and air flow. >>



The problem with that is it wouldn't fit any cases out there. They have standard spacing for PCI slots. Though I agree with the idea.

 

[jlee]

Back when I had my PII, I had these PCI slots filled (in no particular order):

1) Voodoo2 (SLI)
2) Voodoo2 (SLI)
3) NIC
4) Soundblaster Live Value
5) ISA modem (shared a PCI slot..so it took one)

With my current system, all I'm using is two...NIC and sound card. (3 if you count the extra USB ports).

 

[Slawsk]

Too much is never enough! Besides it's not like the latency is that much. If they give you 6, take it, don't complain and just get 4.

 

[splice]

<< splice - read this.


<< It supports up to two Intel® Pentium® III Xeon ? processors with a 133 MHz system bus for higher performance and reliability. For increased I/O performance, the SBT2 has seven PCI slots. >>

>>



No, you missed part of the spec there... there are two independed I/O buses... I know for a fact that PCI2.2 specs upto 6 DMA devices.

Directly from the spec page: "Two Independent PCI buses"

 

[AA0]

This is something I want to get things changed. The amount of slots we have now is just way too much. Realisticly a new board should come with onboard NIC, USB, etc. The only thing you really should need is 1 AGP, 1 for sound, 1 for another NIC, and maybe one more for another card. ATX is way too big, imo.

 

[Eug]

<< This is something I want to get things changed. The amount of slots we have now is just way too much. Realisticly a new board should come with onboard NIC, USB, etc. The only thing you really should need is 1 AGP, 1 for sound, 1 for another NIC, and maybe one more for another card. ATX is way too big, imo. >>

Get a new iMac. Problem solved.

 

[RanDum72]

Lets see what I have here:

Santa Cruz
3COM NIC
Adaptec 2906 (for my scanner)
Iwill SIDE RAID controller
Supramax fax/modem (comes in handy when faxing docs stright from the PC)
Hauppage TV tuner

I need more PCI slots!

 

[SinNisTeR]

im using:

agp - video card

pci:

1 sound card
2 extra usb ports
3 nic
4 wintv
5 firewire
6 free for now, but soon a pci video card for dual monitors

there you have it folks..