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Any 680i boards with 3 PCI slots and/or 2 PATA ports?

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Slugbait

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There is an x6800 making its way to my house, and I'm planning a partial upgrade. I have two PATA hard drives and two PATA optical drives that I plan to continue using (no, the wife is already upset that I'm spending money, so new SATA hard drive(s) is not an option).

But all 680i boards I've found so far only support two PATA devices. I have my old IDE card that came with my WD 320 drive, which would occupy a PCI slot...but all 680i boards I've found so far only have 2 PCI slots, leaving me with one slot left to choose between my TV card and Soundblaster Platinum. I could settle for onboard audio, but don't really want to drop the Soundblaster.

Anybody know of a 680i board that has 3 PCI, and/or 2 PATA? Or know of any that will be released in the near future? Thanks
 
if you want to compromise, you can get a Gigabyte N680SLI-DQ6

It has 3x PCI slots, but it only supports 2 PATA drives.
For your harddrives, you can buy 2x Rosewill IDE to SATA adapters and hook your PATA Harddrives to SATA. They're available at Newegg and I use 2 of them and I can vouch they work.
 
"and/or" = "compromise "

I forgot abooot adapters (no, I'm not Canadian...)

And Tweaktown said nForce 680i done to perfection

I was hoping to get a board under $200 (or even under $300), but otherwise a very good suggestion. Thanks
 
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