Foxconn NF4UK8AA-8EKRS system board : Review

Quote: In the current flurry of nForce 4 motherboards on the market it is hard to make a decision on which board to go with. If you are a HTPC user looking to upgrade this decision is especially painful. Why the pain you ask? The majority of the socket 939 motherboard market is dominated with motherboards that have only two or three PCI slots. and as most HTPC users know, that just will not cut it! No thanks to the current lack of PCIe devices such as HDTV tuners and PVR cards HTPC users need as many PCI slots as possible. What is worse is that most of these boards are even designed with the PCIe graphics slot right next to a regular PCI slot! Once you put in a graphics card with a large silent cooler such as the HIS X850XT IceQ II, you are now down to 1 or 2 PCI slots. I know I myself use two tuners and a HDTV tuner, then a modem for caller ID and throw in a high end gaming sound card and you have easily eaten up 5 PCI slots.

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