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3-Way Motherboard Shootout
Steve writes "Hexus.net has put three high-end i955X-based motherboards through their paces, to see which is the best LGA775 platform motherboard. Intel's own offering falls a little short, but Gigabyte and ABIT both make compelling boards, with ABIT taking the top-spot by a small margin."
Yes, we get it. You guys can build big motherboards with gobs of features, including legacy stuff I'll never use.
... everybody, which means "nobody in particular". This is a market ripe for picking. If somebody had the brains and balls, they could really make a killing. How about a Mac mini-like motherboard?
For once, I'd like to see somebody build a small motherboard with modern connectors, quiet (or no) fans, and no legacy crap that just takes up space. Right now, about the only way to get that is out of a Mac mini.
I'm still using a 5-year-old computer that I've only upgraded once (bought a new 80 GB disk to replace the old 9 GB one). It's still fast enough for everything I do -- if/when I upgrade, I hope to get something smaller and quieter. I don't care about faster, because the slowest new computer available is faster than this sub-GHz Athlon.
It's kind of sad that, over the past 10 years, the only thing that's really changed about motherboards is that they've gotten faster. They've gone to all the work to come up with new and faster and smaller busses (Firewire, USB2, S-ATA, etc.), but it doesn't make the boards any smaller if they're still including all the big old legacy ports, still, too!
(Yay, floppy, IDE, and PCI slots! What, no ISA?)
ISTM that all motherboard manufacturers today build pretty much the same product, which is aimed at