need motherboard with no onboard components

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Dos-Man

Hi, I'm looking to get a motherboard with no on-board nonsense
on it. Of course I'm talking about built-in sound chips, modems,
usb ports, modems, etc.

I want to use cards and nothing but cards. I am really tired
of these on-board chips. I found them to be disruptive, not easily
disabled, and offering no real benefit.

dos-man
 
Hi, I'm looking to get a motherboard with no on-board nonsense
on it. Of course I'm talking about built-in sound chips, modems,
usb ports, modems, etc.

I want to use cards and nothing but cards. I am really tired
of these on-board chips. I found them to be disruptive, not easily
disabled, and offering no real benefit.

dos-man
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I think just about every motherboard you find will have an on board
ide/floppy controller and on board USB. The last board I can remember
seeing that didn't have an on board controller was a 486SX board. It
even had an I/O card with a parallel port and serial port on it.



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Hi, I'm looking to get a motherboard with no on-board nonsense
on it. Of course I'm talking about built-in sound chips, modems,
usb ports, modems, etc.

I want to use cards and nothing but cards. I am really tired
of these on-board chips. I found them to be disruptive, not easily
disabled, and offering no real benefit.

dos-man
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No USB? I think you're out of luck, those that don't have the
physical ports still have the pins, USB integrated into the
Southbridge whether you want it or not.. I doubt you'll find one with
two modems though. ;-)

Most "full-featured" motherboards allow disabling the onboard
features, if the boards you've had didn't then look for one geared
towards overclockers, which typically means more BIOS settings or
onboard jumpers.

The boards that usually have difficult to disable features are those
made for OEMs, or the retail version of same boards.

Narrow the field down and check out some user forums where you can ask
about specific issues.


Dave
 
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, (e-mail address removed) (Dos-Man)
wrote:
Hi, I'm looking to get a motherboard with no on-board nonsense
on it. Of course I'm talking about built-in sound chips, modems,
usb ports, modems, etc.

I want to use cards and nothing but cards. I am really tired
of these on-board chips. I found them to be disruptive, not easily
disabled, and offering no real benefit.
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No real benefit? How about price?


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-= Ratz O. Fratzo =- said:
I think just about every motherboard you find will have an on board
ide/floppy controller and on board USB.
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I'm ok with the IDE/floppy controllers. USB is not the worst thing
that could have, I guess.

I'm mainly concerned about audio, video, and modem chips built onto
the board.

dos-man
 
I'm ok with the IDE/floppy controllers. USB is not the worst thing
that could have, I guess.

I'm mainly concerned about audio, video, and modem chips built onto
the board.
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You don't see on board modems much. LAN is another story.



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-= Ratz O. Fratzo =-
 
Hi, I'm looking to get a motherboard with no on-board nonsense
on it. Of course I'm talking about built-in sound chips, modems,
usb ports, modems, etc.

I want to use cards and nothing but cards. I am really tired
of these on-board chips. I found them to be disruptive, not easily
disabled, and offering no real benefit.

dos-man
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Cheap Jetway or ECS boards are pretty bare.
http://www.ripnet-uk.com/RipNet_v2/reviews/motherboards/jetway/page1.shtml

HTH :)



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Dos-Man said:
Hi, I'm looking to get a motherboard with no on-board nonsense
on it. Of course I'm talking about built-in sound chips, modems,
usb ports, modems, etc.

I want to use cards and nothing but cards.
Click to expand...

You're out of luck except -maybe- some garbage cheapo boards. Might find an
OLD socket 7 board with no USB?

I believe you're worried about hassles that OEM boards with on board stuff
might have. "Performance" boards allow this stuff to be disabled easily and
all come with this stuff. Almost none have modems anymore, the on board
lans work fine and the sound is easily disabled...
 
Dos-Man said:
Hi, I'm looking to get a motherboard with no on-board nonsense
on it. Of course I'm talking about built-in sound chips, modems,
usb ports, modems, etc.

I want to use cards and nothing but cards. I am really tired
of these on-board chips. I found them to be disruptive, not easily
disabled, and offering no real benefit.

dos-man
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That's fine, but really, most modern day motherboards come with these
options - ie, my A7Nx Deluxe Asus mb - Nforce2, comes with onboard sound and
lan - however it is a very simple thing to disable thiese in the bios, so if
you prefer cards it is no big deal. I use the onboard lan with no problems,
however I use my new Audigy 2 ZS sound card, have the onboard sound
disabled, with one click in the bios, and it has no isssues.
 
Most "full-featured" motherboards allow disabling the onboard
features
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When onboard features are disabled, are the components still using power, or
are they electronically by passed? I.E. does overall system power supply
usage go down when these onboard components are disabled?
 
When onboard features are disabled, are the components still using power, or
are they electronically by passed? I.E. does overall system power supply
usage go down when these onboard components are disabled?
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There would not be an electrical bypass but these onboard features
typically use very little power to begin with, relative to the rest of
the system. Being able to electrically disable them wouldn't allow
use of the next-size down power supply, or reduced chassis cooling.
If the entire system were extremely energy-conservative it might be
the next thing to look at, but as far as energy usage goes they are
way down on the list. Consider a Via Epia system with all these
onbaord components, the entire system might run from a 60W PSU.


Dave
 
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