Troika Website Launch

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@ Matt-H

My real concern is the mini ITX design.
What I want is an expandable cheap system.

Sure get rid of legacy stuff, but more PCI slots for expandability. Plug in USB, nic, sound etc. Also the lack of AGP is nasty. I will want to add a good graphics card that can do fast 3d etc for games I may want to play. Sorry, doesn't need to be PCI, was just an example as a cheap expandable bus design. I want the ability to plug in functionality if I need it or top up the speed in a CPU replacemet/upgrade.
so
1. Expandable system
2. good performance on the expansion (pci or express or something else)

I'll add the cards to my system to add functionality as I need them.

I'd love to see a cheap yet expandable mother board for a new AMIGA platform. This is just my desires however.

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@billt

Yeah I see that, but I want the perfomance out of my system. The limitation in this would be flooding the PCI bus with data esp if it's video data. That's why the AGP design came into effect.
If I have firewire, fast graphics and a fast ethernet solution plugged in, the system would crawl because of the lack of system bandwith.

Just won't suit my needs.

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@Dr_Righteous

How expensive could an expandable system be!!

If you ripped out the USB, Ethernet, Sound, IDE Raid
On board graphics etc etc and just put on more PCI slots or PCI express slots, maybe a cpu riser. AGP slot? C'mon, Video badwith is a major factor on boards, that's why AGP was developed in the first place, an AGP slot has got to be cheaper than adding in a AGP complient graphics chip and technology. Mind you I don't think this board even will have that from reading of the article, it's PCI only so it's going to choke when graphics gets heavy. Why not just go PCI express!

A simple bus slot is cheaper than a graphics chip or firewire controller!! it's just a plastic connector! Sure there logic and design around it to impliment, but hey, you already have done some of that with adding a PCI bus, scrap all the technology features for extra bandwith and let the user plug in the cards if they want it.

Being expandable, I have heaps of connector slots. I can pop in a card with firwire, USB, RAID or whatever I want. At least this way I choose what I need and will use. Cost is kept to a minimum, and with the CPU connector, I can upgrade!