ASRock Wants the Best Mobo Ideas in the World
Tell us what you want from your next motherboard, and you could win a free motherboard from ASRock!
Get your ideas in, because it's the last day to enter!
Motherboard engineers try to make the hardware that they think will be most attractive to users – but despite their best efforts, they aren't telepathic.
For that reason, ASRock would like to hear from YOU about what you want in your next motherboard?
We'd like for you to tell us what sorts of board features/capabilities are currently important to you and what's on your wishlist for your next-generation build.
Even if some of the features you want don't exist yet, we're sure that ASRock's engineers would like to hear about what the best of you can dream up.
As a token of appreciation, ASRock will award the top four best answers with one of X58-Extreme6, P55-Extreme4, 890FX-Deluxe4, and 890GX-Extreme4 motherboards. (Read more about these motherboards here.)
All you have to do is register an account with our forums and post your ideas in the comments below. ASRock will review all the submissions and will be picking the best one in two weeks' time.
This contest will close on at the end of September 30, 2010, so make sure that you get your ideas in before then!
This contest is solely sponsored by ASRock Inc. Bestofmedia LLC USA has no responsibility for the contest, including judging the contest, providing the prizes, transmitting prizes to winners or reporting receipt of the prizes to appropriate governmental taxing agencies.

(A real sound chip would be nice too)
(A real sound chip would be nice too)
Then you could upgrade at a later time saving you money up front, and maybe give a little personalization to the specs that an individual would want.
I know its far fetched, but no sense in holding back one's desires.
If you don't know what customers want then go make something else.
It will NOT have: onboard sound, onboard video, onboard networking, or ps2/serial ports of any kind!
It will have:
3 full 16x pci-e slots
2 1x pci-e slots
1 pci slot
10 Sata ports
numerous usb/firewire ports
beefy raid controller
Strong overclocking components guaranteed to allow the cpu/ram to achieve its max potential on air cooling.
I hate low quality onboard devices that I dont want.
I want a board that is free of all clutter because I intend to add a high end sound device and either wireless networking or a killer nic.
Basically all expansion slots will be used with a board of this type.
If the consumer plans to do 3 way sli/crossfire and some slots are blocked then you can always use a usb type wireless card. Also, if you primarily use headphones then you can use usb headphones that has its own audio chip and a full sound card isn't needed. There are usb sound cards to. Less crap in the case = less heat = better for overclocking.
I'm hopeful that the exclusion of onboard devices will allow components to be spaced out a little more for more breathing room, increased system stability and lower cost.
Taking this general thought a bit further, it would be interesting to explore really leveraging both sides of the MB. For example, you could have the MB basically folded in half with the components (CPU, card slots, etc) on one side and the small connectors (LEDs, switches, USB, SATA, etc) on the other. Yes, I realize this would require new case designs, but it also could allow for much smaller surface area requirements for MBs, and possibly shorter interconnect distances between components.