Geeky1 had this to say WTF do you need that many PCI slots for?
I'm building a 1.4GHz Pentium III Tualatin machine on an Asus P2B-B. That board is a 440BX slot1 board in the AT form factor, and the case I'm using is for an IBM Personal Computer AT, which used to have an AT 286 board in it. The board only has three PCI, and that goes down to two if I have an oversize AGP heatsink.
Right now, the loadout is:
AGP: nVidia GeForce 3 Ti500
PCI0: 3com 3c905C-TX-M managed Fast Ethernet
PCI1: Adaptec 2940U2W LVD SCSI-II, Ultra SCSI-II adapter
PCI2: Turtle Beach Santa Cruz 5.1 soundcard
ISA0: (shared with PCI2, vacant)
ISA1: USRobotics 56k V.90 controller-based modem
I could really use a 90 degree adapter for Slot1. It would eliminate me having to carve up part of the hard drive chassis with my Dremel. I've only been able to find one, but it seems to find it necessary to go up a full height before flipping over, and I need mine flipped right at the connector (like a 1U riser).
Oh... so that means I can't repeat myself now and tout the efficacy of oversized passive heatsinks for GPUs and northbridges.
for SLI'd voodoo 2's ofcourse...along with the fan blower...ahh the days when i almost ph34r3d that id run out of back slots...now with everything onboard...its all good to go
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Right now, the loadout is:
AGP: nVidia GeForce 3 Ti500
PCI0: 3com 3c905C-TX-M managed Fast Ethernet
PCI1: Adaptec 2940U2W LVD SCSI-II, Ultra SCSI-II adapter
PCI2: Turtle Beach Santa Cruz 5.1 soundcard
ISA0: (shared with PCI2, vacant)
ISA1: USRobotics 56k V.90 controller-based modem
I could really use a 90 degree adapter for Slot1. It would eliminate me having to carve up part of the hard drive chassis with my Dremel. I've only been able to find one, but it seems to find it necessary to go up a full height before flipping over, and I need mine flipped right at the connector (like a 1U riser).
-drasnor
for SLI'd voodoo 2's ofcourse...along with the fan blower...ahh the days when i almost ph34r3d that id run out of back slots...now with everything onboard...its all good to go
-drasnor