www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/products.php?categories=1&model=326

Finally... One gripe - I wish they made room for the ONE PCI slot - if you have a CF setup, you have no legacy PCI slots to work with... at least it appears that way.

omg that board looks sweet

hmm well atleast there put one pci slot otherwise no sound card

the lack of pci slots maybe their own demise

I wish they would make up their damn minds. Personally I don't care one way or the other about PCI vs. PCI-e x1. I just wish they would pick one. It seems like the motherboard manufacturers want to go PCI-e but the add-on card makers seem to want to stick with PCI. If the motherboard manufacturers want PCI-e then I say get together and just decide that there will be no more PCI on boards, or maybe one port at the most. Force the add-on card makers, such as Creative and the like, to get over the PCI thing and just start making PCI-e cards, then people won't bitch that there isn't enough PCI slots on the new motherboards.

...Dude Why does ABIT's board layouts suck so much!? Can't they learn to put all the SATA and PATA ports on 1 side of the damned motherboard!

Leon2ky...Dude Why does ABIT's board layouts suck so much!? Can't they learn to put all the SATA and PATA ports on 1 side of the damned motherboard!

you mean the floppy connector at the bottom?

W1zzardyou mean the floppy connector at the bottom?

That and the Sata ports there. Wonder if they are installing SATA connectors that don't pop out when you look at them funny. This is coming from a tried and true Abit person.

The floppy connect does suck at the bottom of the board like that, simply because it would be a pain to run a ribbon cable all the way down there, but the SATA right above it shouldn't be a problem since the cables are easier to work with.

floppy connector??? Whats that!!!

..... I recollect some talk of those, but that was some years ago!! :D

As already mentioned a few times! WHY Cant ABIT learn how to have smart layouts on their boards. If i would have CF which i would if i bought the mobo, then i would have sacrifice my x-fi for it!? How and what are Abit thinking?? This is why I still stay with my beloved Asus brand!

Yeah, only 1 PCI isn't a smart choice now if you have a sound card, but in the future, I'm sure a lot of things, including sound will be PCI-E x1. But the Floppy I don't really care about. I only use it to install RAID, which doesn't take too long.

are the ports on the board sata or sata2?

jocksteelukare the ports on the board sata or sata2?

SATA II according to the specs on the Abit site linked on page 1, but they have disguised it by referign to it as SATA 3Gb/s (which is perfectly valid, but why is there 3 names for the same thing, SATA II, SATA 3GB/s and SATA3000 ?)

Internal I/O Connectors
- 1 x Floppy port, 1 x UDMA 100/66/33 connector
- 7 x SATA 3Gb/s connectors
- 2 x USB 2.0 headers, 2 x IEEE1394 headers
- 1 x FP-Audio header, 1 x CD-IN

just installed one, didnt post. just installed the asus delux mobo, didnt post. installed gigabytes quad and it posted....

so far the g/b is my fav.

ktrjust installed one, didnt post. just installed the asus delux mobo, didnt post. installed gigabytes quad and it posted.... so far the g/b is my fav.

Just installed an ASUS PN532 SE SLI with an E6800. Didn't post. Did a hard CMOS reset, battery out. Posted fine after that. Couldn't get the SI 3132 RAID to work with XP. Went to sleep :rolleyes:

today was pretty bad for the customer i was building this for. we went thru so many mobos. seems like a bad batch of 965s'. the asus board got some dma issue, the abit got some floppy issue and a c1 error, but the g/b board posted with out a hitch. personally (building over 100 units using the finest board the market had to offer) gigabyte is my fav manafacture. then comes dfi, and a fight between abit and asus for third.