My dream Motherboard.

cut and past from my post in the mobo section...

well here is the list of things required for the PERFECT overclockable motherboard.

Physical things:

1. Red or black in colour
2. ATX form
3. Clean socket area, free from capacitors. manditory 4 mobo holes and clean socket allows mounting of mcx-462 or alpha pal 8045 heatsinks.
3. Clean AGP slot, no capacitors or cables in the way of long AGP cards.
4. AGP pro + locking mechanism would be nice.
5. Triple phase power mofsets manditory
6. Power connector up the top of the mobo.
7. 6 PCI slots, no AMR or CNR
8. At least 3 DDR ram slots
9. ATA133
10. Onboard ATA133 RAID 0, 1, 0+1
11. All IDE connectors grouped at the top of the board.
12. As few jumpers as possible, and jumpers in easy to reach positions.
13. Dual bios
14. Boot error reporting LED
15. XP internal temp monitoring and bios emergency shutoff (as in the A7V333)
16. Northbridge with a DECENT cooler. i.e. 1 inch high HS with >40mm fan desired. (or just a large passive HS)
17. More than 3 monitored fan Headers (cpu fan, northbridge, and at least 1 casefan)

Bios Options:
1. go back to previous working settings should boot fail.
2. Full manipulation of all RAM timings, including extreemly hard settings i.e. 1.5T
3. FSB to 200mhz in 1mhz increments.
4. full range of multipliers
5. softFSB changing within windows (see leadtek winfast 7350KDA)
6. Full range of 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, and 1/6 PCI dividers, !OR! dividers selectable independent of the FSB OR completely FSB independent PCI/AGP speeds (as in some P4 mobo's).
7. CPU core voltage fully selectable to and BEYOND 1.85v. i..e up to 2.1 or 2.2.
8. AGP and DDR voltages bios selectable

Other things that would be nice but arnt strictly required:
1. Firewire
2. Blootooth
3. Onboard quality sound. i.e. NOT AC97
4. 4 x USB 2.0 onboard
5. Onboard LAN

anything ive forgotten?
and % chance someone will ever make a motherboard with half these options?

Toms Forums. Destroying my sanity
one braincell at a time.

cool cool

<font color=red><b>Don't take life too seriously.... You won't get out of it alive.</font color=red></b>

can you add some 66 mhz 64 bit pci busses to that please

<font color=red>Gasoline + Fire</font color=red><font color=green> Can be a lot of fun</font color=green>

It's spelled "Bluetooth" =)
at least in america, not sure in aus-land.

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PM me if you find one, it looks beatifull, only the colour doesn't matter for me

It's not a bug, it's a feature .

i say we get cusomize able colored motherbaords all they qould have to do would be to screen a diffrent color on before they put all the stuss on the top and bottom

<font color=red>Gasoline + Fire</font color=red><font color=green> Can be a lot of fun</font color=green>

Wow I feel so special because my motherboard is <font color=green>green</font color=green>.

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mine is a brown color.

<font color=red><b>Don't take life too seriously.... You won't get out of it alive.</font color=red></b>

that would be cool to have 2000000000000000 pci slots and get every single device ever made for PCI.

<font color=red><b>Don't take life too seriously.... You won't get out of it alive.</font color=red></b>

Is yours brown because your Athlon caught on fire?

Blah, Blah Blahh, Blahh, blahh blah blahh, blah blah.

not it wouldnt! if u used win2k then all the 2gazillion PCI devices will use IRQ 9!!!

Toms Forums. Destroying my sanity
one braincell at a time.

Max I've ever had:

Modem
Sound
2nd Videocard for dual monitor
NIC
DVD decoder card

I'm currently down to one:
Modem

<font color=red>If you were to have sex with your clone would that be considered incest or masturbation?</font color=red>

yeah... bell canada do have gread adsl.

when i was in canada i was payin 25 a month for completley unlimited 128kbytes down/16kbytes up.
and i was running it 24/7

shame that they couldnt fix my phone for crap *rolls eyes*

Toms Forums. Destroying my sanity
one braincell at a time.