So, I was looking at my wall of boxes for computer parts and tools and I see my old Foxconn box for a motherboard. It takes me a bit to get the box out from all the other boxes that surround it. It's for an old FM1 motherboard. I threw that thing out some time past. It was a POS. Always having problems with that. It was supposed to just be a cheap file server solution. Figured that I didn't need a lot of horsepower for that. I still haven't found the CPU, an AMD A4 3300. It had on-board video so I didn't need a dGPU. But the chip sucked. The CPU sucked and the mobo was flakey. I had gone to the dark side in 2009 when I went with an i7 920. So, my filer server normally got the hand-me-downs. My A64 X2 went to upgrade the file server from my single core Winchester. After a couple of failed motherboards, I retired the X2 and purchased the cheap A4 3300. I think it was something like $36.I was looking at the mobo box and wondering why I still kept it (I'm going to to throw it out). I'm looking at the paper foldout (not an actual manual) and trying to think why I ever bought this mobo. It was because it was cheap (to pair with the A4). It was a bridge model. It had PCIe x16 for video and a couple of PCIe x2 for expansion. But THIS mobo came with three PCI slots. I used those for my controller cards from my previous build. That way, I didn't have to buy them over. My current build is LGA 1511. I bought new PCIe controller cards for that.
