Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought..

[Wilko Bulte]

On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 11:38:54AM -0700, Mike Smith wrote:
> > 
> > Ugh. I was suprised that I couldn't find an Asus K7V without a stupid AMR
> > slot, especially since I only heard good things about the board
> > itself. I made an honest attempt but just ended up ordering it
> > anyway. I've tried to figure out what that slot does but I've only come
> > across market-speak.
> > 
> > What does it do?
> 
> It conects to the AC97 modem codec in the VIA chipset; you put the modem 
> line interface on a card and stick it in there.  ie. it's a neat way to 
> again reduce the cost of a WinModem.

And a horrible way to loose valuable PCB real estate that could have housed a
PCI/ISA slot. A modem line interface on an L-shaped 'blech' with a cable 
to the mom board would be better IMHO. Would allow the owner to throw 
it away and put PCI/ISA expansion on the machine ;)

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Wilko Bulte     FreeBSD, the power to serve     http://www.freebsd.org
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