Well I have to say I was impressed, up until I saw the dual slot cooling solution. I mean who has space to waste a slot, for instance I have a ASUS A7V266-d MB with 5 PCI and 1 AGP slot, not that unusual, I also have the following which is more than many people, but still reasonable:
AGP: TI4600
PCI1: 3COM NIC
PCI2: Adaptec 29160
PCI3: SB Live 5.1
PCI4: USB2
PCI5: Adaptec 2940UW
Space left over none, now I understand that not everyone needs a second SCSI card slot, but still even without it I could not use this card, as there are only 2 64bit PCI slots, you guessed it PCI1 and PCI2, and I have yep 2 64bit PCI cards, again slot free 0. This makes this card worthless to me and I'm sure to many others for while they may not have the number of cards I do, many cheaper MB's have less available slots to start with.
A previous enthusiastic customer, seeing him self forced to ATI by a poor decision.
ERIC
AGP: TI4600
PCI1: 3COM NIC
PCI2: Adaptec 29160
PCI3: SB Live 5.1
PCI4: USB2
PCI5: Adaptec 2940UW
Space left over none, now I understand that not everyone needs a second SCSI card slot, but still even without it I could not use this card, as there are only 2 64bit PCI slots, you guessed it PCI1 and PCI2, and I have yep 2 64bit PCI cards, again slot free 0. This makes this card worthless to me and I'm sure to many others for while they may not have the number of cards I do, many cheaper MB's have less available slots to start with.
A previous enthusiastic customer, seeing him self forced to ATI by a poor decision.
ERIC