[lug] Motherboard recommendations?

[Chip Atkinson]

For me it makes it difficult to swap parts around.  When the mb dies,
you can't chuck it and put in another one.  That's my main gripe.

Chip

On 25 Oct 2002, Zan Lynx wrote:

> 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?
>