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Re: Efika Now Available at www.amigakit.com
« on: December 15, 2006, 10:26:41 AM »
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I'm not ditching my pc, peg1 and peg2 for EFIKA either. That'd be quite silly. EFIKA doesn't replace desktop or laptop system. However, I bet I can find some use for <10 W computer...


These boards are screaming for a simple 12V-in jack, instead of the ATX PSU connector.  
Some of the DC->ATX power adapter kits cost as much as the Mobo.


To get the +3.3/+5/+12/-5/-12 they would have to cram more stuff on the board. The stuff they would have to add to get those voltages from a 12v pulsed dc wallwart could add another 50 bucks to the price tag.
 

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Re: Efika Now Available at www.amigakit.com
« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2006, 11:08:50 AM »
I might be wrong about this but like 6 years ago I swear i had a riser board i pulled out of a machine that interfaced to a pci slot and provided 3 more slots. The board had no ic's on it, i think it only had some discrete components. I pulled it out of a wierd sony machine. The PC i had at the time had a limited ammount of pci slots, and if i remember correctly i used the riser board from that sony machine to give me an extra two pci slots on my pc, which i made use of even though they just hung there ( no case on that box ).

Anyway, the point i'm getting at is would it be possible to use such a device on the Efika to give me more pci slots? And would it be possible to say use such a board to give me two pci slots and use the third avaiable pci slot on the riser to interface with that pci->agp board and effictavly have two pci slots and an agp on the Efika?

From what ive seen on the Efika is a standard PCI slot with an optional pcb that plugs in there and gives an agp port. THat pcb, how does it work? I have not seen this on other hardware. PCI and AGP both have 32 bit bus, but agp uses lower voltages on it's signal pins.
 

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Re: Efika Now Available at www.amigakit.com
« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2006, 12:05:20 PM »
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I asked this on another forum and they said that The PCI controller, inside the CPU, can only handle one device.

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Anyway, the point i'm getting at is would it be possible to use such a device on the Efika to give me more pci slots? And would it be possible to say use such a board to give me two pci slots and use the third avaiable pci slot on the riser to interface with that pci->agp board and effictavly have two pci slots and an agp on the Efika?


I don't beleive it. To only handle one PCI device on that bus would be a software limitation. I just don't know how they do the AGP thing on it. ( I don't know much on AGP )