Teron PX ATX PowerPC motherboard

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I always wondered what was the sound a thousand pre-orders being cancelled would make.

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I don't understand the fourth PCi slot either. I mean who in their right minds would prefer four PCI cards and no AGP instead of three PCI cards and an AGP?

Are people planning on running a machine without a video card? Makes no sense.

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I'm not a fan of either of these boards. However I will say that built-in firewire has consistently been shown in real world tests to be faster than PCI adaptor cards by a significant margin.

I don't know why that is the case, but it has been.

Anyway hopefully better boards will be on the horizon.

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Regarding the availability of USB versus Firewire devices, they're really not in the same market since USB 2.0 is so damned slow.

USB is a misnomer anyway, it ought to be called USP. You can daisy chain firewire devices even if the devices have differing speeds provided the slower devices are at the end of the chain. You can't do the same with USB without a hub, unless you want the USB 2.0 devices even slower than before.

USB is more of a replacement for the parallel port than say SCSI.

Most high-end peripherals have a firewire version or are only available as firewire. Most drives have both ports.