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Finally, a way for i5 to make it to the masses.
That backplane looks *really* sparse. Would it have killed them to have a couple more USB ports to fill it out? Especially for a consumer-orientated board where they have little or no need for more than a 1 or 2 internal ports, but like to plug everything (including the kitchen sink) to their PC?
Does anyone know what LAN controller this uses?
Did a bit of a google, but no luck :<
Just, this might make a lovely white box ESXi machine.
At £75 I wouldn't complain!
Not bad at all although I wonder how long a warranty there would be on this EVGA part?
The chances of the on-board LAN being ESX compatible would be slim to FA!Quote:
Originally Posted by abaxas
You can buy Intel PCI or PCI-E cards cheap though that work well with ESX.
They could of moved the 4pin power socket up a bit, instead of in the middle of the board.
Is that an empty space for an ide socket next to the 24pin power socket?
It's not a board I'd even consider overclocking on and with out a budget cpu I don't think this motherboard is that good.
However great colour scheme and mATX
Nice try, good idea, flawed execution.
This is a basic board - but with dual graphic card slots (and no PCI slot) ? That does not make sense
Drop the second graphic card slot make the first one full x16 and drop in a PCI slot and you have a more useful board for low end market (ie where people recycle cards from existing builds)
I am more tempted by the AMD 785G boards
I think its a bit too bare really (even for uATX), when you compare it too the ASRock and Gigabyte offerings at a similar price. I like colour scheme also :)
hang on - no PCI x16 slot? just two x 8? :angst:
SLi on such a tiny board!?! - lol - u gotta be kidding moi!
It looks like you'd struggle with just one graphics card let alone two - nice and inconveniently placed SATA ports would probably hamper getting in a decent sized card.....
Isn't that mark-out for one of those super-cache type boards Intel we're talking about a few months ago? Can't remember what they called it now, but it was basically 16GB / 32GB of volatile but slow memory that would be used as a cache between your HD and the system memory - basically a huge dedicated swap file...Quote:
Originally Posted by Pob255
I'm more interested in the big empty space in the backplane that looks just about right for a selection of video outputs... ;)
Braidwood ?Quote:
Originally Posted by scaryjim
Thanks, I knew there'd be someone here with a better memory than me ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Terbinator
No PCI slot?