[lug] Motherboard recommendations?

Zan Lynx zlynx at acm.org
Fri Oct 25 13:17:53 MDT 2002


On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 10:39, Chip Atkinson wrote:
> I agree on the weird compaq or hp stuff though.  The kind of right angle
> configuations where there is one big slot and a daughter board plugs into
> it with the real expansion slots sucks.

That is one of the standard motherboard types.  It's very useful for
saving space.  Not everyone wants a huge tower.
    
   v- PCI daughtercard

---|  <- PCI
---|  <- PCI
---|  <- PCI
----  <- Motherboard

What don't you like about it?  I suppose it makes it a pain to change
memory or CPU, but how often do you do that, really?
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