RusH said:
modem ? are you even serious ?
You bet. Not for internet access, but for things like
phone dialing, message taking, caller-ID, logging,
etc. And I'm searching for an app I can afford that
will give features like auto-answer/reply based on
caller-ID. (Eg., automatically tell 1-800 numbers
to shove their telemarketing, surveys, etc where the
sun doesn't shine. With a white-list for exceptions,
of course.)
This board goes for ~$800.
A ridiculous price considering how cripped it is
compared to what you get on most motherboards.
For $800 people should be getting board+cpu+cooling,
with a more PCI slots, DIMM slots, and SATA ports.
I'm sure most people would also be expecting either
AGP 3.0 or PCI-E at that price.
When it costs six times as much as a full-featured
P4 or Athlon64 ATX board, you expect it to have more
features, not less.
As far as PCI slot are concerned you can always snap in PCI riser card
and have as many PCI slots as you like.
Yup. And now you have to hack away at the back of the
case because the cards are perpendicular to the slots
in the case instead of lining up nicely with them.
Still, its something I'll consider with the AOpen board
(priced at a more reasonable but still expensive $260).
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and P-M has huge potential, beating A64 4000 few