Joined: 3-Feb-2004 Posts: 584
From: Lincoln, England
@Chunder
1) Simply because the reference board is ATX, once that is out of the way we can shed the 2 of the 32bit PCI slots and 2 of the DIMM slots and rejig the board, possibly loose some of the legacy features to save sapce to get a micro-ATX board (Still Dual G5's) then a single G5 mini-itx with some seriou sapce saving, a single PCI-X slot, a single DIMM slot and (possibly) a single AGP slot. 2)Certainly possible, what's everyone elses view on this? I think we still need to have some ports on a backplae, though if they come off headers then the backplane can be moved to anywhere in the case, giving more options for motherboard mounting 3)Sorry, we (I) chose AmgiaFive, it's simialr enough to AmigaOne which is what the motherboard will be but still reminds people of the G5 aspect. Also it shows it is something more tahn the current AmigaOne's. 4)PayPal business accounts and all of Nochex accounts allow credit and debit card transfer thought I would certainly accept a personal cheque which i can transfer in myself, what I will ask all of you to take intoa ccount is taht if we are allowing credit and debit card transfers is that all transfers will be chardeg a small fee so please take taht into account when deciding how much to donate. Sorry amte, I don't drink, esspeically when doing electronic design! (Although I have come very close!) 5)Yep that's what Mac did, the question is can we afford to alianate people? I'm actaully in favour of Serial and Parallel via headers but probably not PS/2 6)We need AGP, this system would have PCI-X not PCI-Express. PCI-X is just faster clock speed 64bit PCI (In this case 133mhz instead of 66mhz - i.e. twice the clock) so still not fast enough to compete with AGP 8x. Also there are no PCI-X capable graphics cards to my knowledge, I don't even know if PCI Radeons/GeForce's can do 64bit PCI, I would guess so, anyone know?
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