From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Apr 11 04:27:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA11840 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 11 Apr 1997 04:27:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bagpuss.visint.co.uk (bagpuss.visint.co.uk [194.207.134.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA11833 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 1997 04:27:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bagpuss.visint.co.uk (bagpuss.visint.co.uk [194.207.134.1]) by bagpuss.visint.co.uk (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA11782; Fri, 11 Apr 1997 12:32:14 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 12:32:14 +0100 (BST) From: Stephen Roome To: Vincent Poy cc: Kedar , hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pentuim or Pentuim Pro ? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 10 Apr 1997, Vincent Poy wrote: > On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Kedar wrote: > > > > I thought even the non-ATX, all slots were still full length? > > > > It is not the slots, but the cards that one refers to, I believe. > > In the AT style boards, the CPU fan tends to come in the way of full-length > > cards. We did manage to find a couple of AT boards that allowed us to do > > that. With the ATX boards, it's easier, and more versatile to use some of > > the huge sound or graphics cards and such. > > Even in the ATX boards, the connectors for the wires to the case > come in the way of half-length cards so I don't really know but who still > makes full legnth cards these days? I've got a full length real magic card and a full length modem (wonder how slow it is) I doubt either of which are made anymore but I expect buying an old full length real magic card is still a lot cheaper than a new pci spangly one and still does the job fine. How about all the old video capture cards, some of them were full length, at that price why buy a new one ? It'd be nice to use the real magic card (is it supported ?) -- Steve Roome Broom cupboard Stockist, Vision Interactive Ltd. E: steve@visint.co.uk M: +44 (0) 976 241 342 T: +44 (0) 117 973 0597 F: +44 (0) 117 923 8522