and sometimes add an OTA HDTV card for a total requirement of two or three PCI slots (or combination of PCI and PCI-Express). This pretty much pushes these builders into larger cases, where motherboards supporting more PCI slots can be accomodated. The products...

Passively cooled Northbridge I was pleased to see that the Northbridge was passively cooled. There's nothing like a noisy Northbridge fan to ruin a perfectly good PC. PCI slots The m7580n has three PCI expansion slots. Two of the slots are already filled by...

first time in years, I had to factor expansion slots into my motherboard selection to make sure that all my peripherals would fit. I needed enough PCI slots to accommodate at least three TV tuners, a sound card and a video card. Beyond the expansion slots,...

plenty of ports (10 USB, 7.1 high definition audio), 3 PCI slots, plus an additional PCI x1 and PCI x8 slot above and beyond the two PCI x16 slots for SLI graphics. Quite an awesome combination of capabilities, in fact. Alas, you'll have to dig deep...

for the configuration options you wish to assign. TIP: In practice on standard PCs, you will probably find that PCI network interfaces will be presented in the same order as the PCI slots they are installed in. Normally PCI slots are numbered with slot 1 being...

to its size, the MEGA 180 had only two expansion slots: one AGP and one PCI. Since it contained only one PCI slot I decided to purchase another ATI All in Wonder series AGP card to use as my primary TV tuner so that I could use the PCI slot for expansion. The...

slot, it is unusable due to the case’s form factor. The PCI slots are a different story, though. Thanks to a so-called riser card, one of the PCI slots can be used for add-in cards such as a TV tuner. However, some limitations regarding the card’s size...

good enough for your living room? Better ask your spouse first, since you don't want to spend big bucks on a great looking case that will be hidden away in a cupboard. One PCI slot, an AGP slot, Firewire, USB 2.0, 5.1 channel audio with SPDIF in/ out and 100Mbit...

Gigabyte motherboard for this story, the GA-MA69G-S3H. It's a full-size ATX board that features an AMD 690G chipset, along with an intelligent layout that places both of its PCI slots far enough away from the PCI x16 slot to keep them accessible even with a...

forward with two new Standards for Mobile Computing, which are 'MiniPCI' for internal PCI cards and 'MDC' (Mobile Audio/Modem Daughter Card). PCI slots are too big for a notebook, but there is a need for optional features like Ethernet LAN, token ring LAN or...