Also will an X-Fi card fit the SupremeFX card slot?
I don't Think so, its a riser card slot , not a full PCI slot. They did that to remove some components off the motherboard because it so stuffed full of features. Many hardcore gamers would never dream of using that anyways so will just leave that riser card off the system.
Really? The Riser card slot looks like a small pci x1 slot, like the one below.
I really want an enthusiast board with these features but I also want 7 expansion slots.
I've been looking at various custom PC builders like Velocity Micro, Alienware and Dell, and I think it would be cheaper to build a system myself. From different configurations I've seen I think I'm leaning toward
• Processor Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme processor QX6700, quad 2.66GHz cores, 8MB L2 Cache
• ASUS Striker Extreme Socket T (LGA 775) NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI ATX Motherboard or similar board.
• ENERMAX GALAXY EGA1000EWL ATX/BTX 1000W Power Supply 100
• DDR2 Memory 4096MB Corsair Dominator DDR2-1066 Twin2X2048-8500C5D* Dual-path Heat Xchange
• 2 x BFG Tech GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB Water Cooled PCI Express graphics card in SLI DDR3 PCI-Express
• Multimedia TV Tuners ATI Theater™ 650 PRO or ATI TV Wonder 650
ATI Technologies TV Wonder 650 PCI NTSC [/b]
• Physics Processor 128mb Asus® AGEIA™ PhysX™ Processor Ghost Recon Edition
• Areca ARC-1210 4 ports 500 MHz PCI-Express to SATA-II RAID 6 Adapter, Areca Premium 256M SoDimm ECC-Raid Controller card.
• 4 x 150GB Western Digital Raptor 10,000rpm SATA/150, 16MB Cache, NCQ -RAID 0 Stripe (600GB Total)
• Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Professional Series sound card , 64MB X-RAM for high performance and superior digital audio
• Floppy Drive & Media Reader 8-in-1 Floppy Drive & Media Reader Combo
• Bigfoot Networks Killer NIC M1 10/100/1000Mbps PCI Network Adapter with a 400 MHz Network Processing Unit (NPU) 1 x RJ-45, 1 x USB2.0
• Microsoft® Windows® Vista Home Premium Edition