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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (92318)1/15/2003 6:36:34 PM
From: Joe NYCRead Replies (1) of 275872
 
Jim,

- SCSI controller
- Extra IDE controller...nice to run things like Zip drives off of.
- RAID


Ok, suppose one would apply (for one slot), I can't imagine more than one, on top of 4 IDE and however many SATA devices.

-Audiophile sound card.
Ok, 2.

High end video card...onboard gForce won't be cutting edge. (AGP slot)

You said it, AGP slot. So we are up to 2 PCI slots and 1 AGP slot. With MicroATX, you would still have one available. Suppose you need a Gigabit Ethernet card.

Basically extremely high 90s percentage of users would have to go out f their way to fill in the 3 PCI plus 1 AGP slots MicroATX offers. But what is on the market is high 90s percentage of motherboards are 5 or 6 PCI ATX motherboards. And these are for desktops. That's a serious mismatch, IMO.

Joe
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