mick wrote:
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:35:16 +0100 Anthony Anson tony.anson@girolle.co.uk allegedly wrote:
MSI board has:
1 * PCIE (filled with graphics card)
2 * PCI slots (one free)
2 * DIMM slots (filled with RAM)
ECS board has:
1 * AGP slot (filled with graphics card)
3 * PCI slots (two free)
2 * DDR 184 pin SDRAM slots (empty)
2 * DDR2 240 pin SDRAM slots (filled)
Oh, thanks for counting.
Neither has enough, probably, unless some of the functions I want (excluding sound and video) are onboard.
While faster than my old (and I mean old) AMD 900 and associated bits, I want to fit a good soundcard, a good graphics ditto, an UW SCSI, Firewire, network, modem and - er - I'm sure there was something else...
At a pinch, I have an external modem for a serial port.
Ah yes - the other card was a SATA for more spinningthings.
If either comes anywhere near permitting these functions (forgetting the extra SATA card), I'd be nibbling.