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A motherboard should be a flexible sheet to which all the components can be applied modularly, easily adjust to cut or expand to fill any form factor or shape.
 
1.i like my system to turn on remotely....with something like a car security remote control.
2.you have 2 USB 3.0 in front panel,please design a bracket for those who want these 2 extra ports on the back(i know there are 2 usb 3.0 on the back panel,but i want more!)
3.it might be a fiction,but it would be nice to have a motherboard that has integrated RAM and HDD beside integrated VGA,so you could start using system with a small OS to do some web browsing or listening to music.
 
i want a motherboard that can let me work "remotely" from my bed.(watching HD or reading books using wireless display and input device) e.g.

note that now days we relay on NET and browser more than our OS!

I had a computer running 24/7. running quad core cpu(possibly build in GPU) and 4GB+ RAM.
The computer will be at my room.

usually i will use the computer on the desk. but i also con work with my PC from my bed (read books / surf web / watch HD) using a wired or wireless display with input device(like touch screen/mini trackball/slide keyboard) which are very light.

I also wish for a M/b which are very small and cool and with lots of sata slot. for my home NAS which i can just set it up and leave it there for a long time until i need to replace the HDD. (note: ATOM D525 + ICH9?)
 
[citation][nom]andrazz90[/nom]1st A light that lights up/changes colour when something is not making a complete connection (like a badly slotted video card/cable)2nd Pci slot securing notches that are above the vga cooler and not directly underneath the vga cooler (ie a place where you can actually reach!!)3rd Better labelling when it comes to the location of front panel connections.[/citation]

Selected P35 series from Asus already has that feature as if you did not plugged in a card completely, a red LED will light up and the system won't turn on. It's called AI slot detector.
I know cause I used to have that board.
 
This would be my ultimate Motherboard:

1. Most high end cases now have the PSU in the bottom, you need to flip the old board design so cables not have to streach the whole way across every thing. (IE CPU at the bottom, expansion slots on top.)

2. Dual Bios is a must! This has saved me from having to re-flash my motherboard from viruses at least 3 times this past year.

3. Good heat sinks. they dont have to be large and elaborate, but some dont have heat sinks on like the VRM and other high heat areas.. When I'm looking for a motherboard, I look at this for reliablity.

4. High Quality Componets! I will pay more for something you would give a 4 year warrenty for. I hate building coputers and haveing the South bridge fail after a year or two.

5. Put a type of brace on the verticle sides. my CPU cooler weighs almost a KG... add a video card and every thing else and new PC's are getting heavy. but an aluminam or some type of steel along the two verticle sides... This would make me worry a lot less about stresses.

6. Color, it would look amazing to have a motherboard Fire Engine red or some other color that would be attention getting. that "wow" factor.

7. Some motherboards charge or things we dont EVER use. my x58 mobo has a flopy connector on it! IN 2010! FLOPPY? Really?

8. 8 USB ports is plenty, give me more sata ports, there are so many SATA componets now... like 12 would be perfect.

9. A BIOS reset button on the I/O pannel!

10. I have never had a motherboard with enough 3-pin fan ports on it... and even then some are under the dual slot video card...

11. Expansion slots... if its a high end motherboard... dont even bother putting things right under at least the first PCI 16x connector... we will never see that with dual slot video cards... and even $100 cards are now dual slot..

12. if your going to do SLI or Cross Fire X, you will be using dual slot cards... so why do boards put like three right under each other? spread them out so I can use all three or four!

13. I also have never had a motherboard with enough usb plugs in it... if your board has one and u give us a bracket that plugs in it... then obviously there is no room for the case USB hookups... and what case dosnt have any?

14. Power switch on board its self... This is very useful if your computer dosnt turn on one day... as it tells you if its simply your case's power button.

15. my motherboard's PIC 16x connectors have locks in them, which i like.. but if you wana take your bottom card out, you have to take all the others out with it.. if you could find a way to keep the locks but make it so they can go up and in-between the cards so i dont have to take my whole computer apart just to upgrade my PhysicsX card... I would love you!

16. Either Built in Wifi or a way to put a laptop wierless card in a desktop... my laptop gets way better signal and is way more reliable than desktop adapter I have ever bought... and I have bought a lot looking for a good one....

17. Include a speaker! Why is it so over looked? XFX has been doing it for like 6 years... they are the only ones I ever seen with a built in speaker... and its awsome!

18. meet or exceed military Specs... the difference in crappy and good capacitors is like $1/ Cap... PLEASE give me good stuff for my money! If you make a good product, you wont loose customers, you will get more.. people will recomend you because your product lasted so long, and when they go to upgrade, you are more out to get re-peat buyers.

19. I have seen motherboards that come with Norton, but thats exspensive and i dont belive a lot of people use it any more.. Use Panda cloud, its free for you to put on the CD, and wont charge people in 6 months or w/e

20. A program with an Easy back up or a small SSD like the box brands have to help the resore process.

21. Fine voltage adjustments. my current motherboard wont go to what my ram says in the specs, I either have to over or under volt it.

Well this is about all I can think of, take the old crap off, update the layout for a new decade, and you will have a lot of happy customers.
 
Oh I forgot one thing, put the RAM dims in such a place that I can use all 6 ram slots if need be with my Noctua 120mm cooler installed
 
[citation][nom]jbakholt[/nom]How about :- Entirely passiv cooled chipset etc.- Dual DVB-T/C/S tuner with common interface slot- USB 3.0- eSata- Built-in IR- Dual SDHC Card readerInstall 2 x 64GB SDHC's, a small SSD system sata-drive, blu-ray drive, RAM and you've got the basic components for a powerfull HTPC with this all-in-one mobo. And no moving parts if a ATOM/ION version of this mobo could be done with passive cooling too.[/citation]
I love this idea.
 
Ok, so a lot of people are saying wifi connectivity and other extra add-ons... and some are saying they want the most basic board possible so they can add their own things without having clutter from unused integrated devices. I can see where both ideas come from.

I also think that the idea for one sata connector to be at the top of the board is a good idea, but given the workings of motherboards, that doesn't make sense from an engineering standpoint (I've also never had that many issues managing that ONE cable that comes down to connect a whole 8-10" from where the dvd drive mounts).


First and foremost, having the power usage of each device built into the BIOS would be awesome. that would make it very easy to see how much power your system is consuming on startup, and would allow users to extrapolate their load powers from there.

Second, and this may seem far-fetched, but you asked, I would like to see configurable PCE 2.0/ PCI / PCIe slots, meaning that you could rearrange the order of the slots on the motherboard so that you wouldn't have, say, 2 double-slot graphics cards (i.e. ATI 5850, 5870) in directly adjacent slots, which leads to both cards running hot since they can't get adequate cooling. Also, this would prevent other add-on cards such as tv-tuners or wifi cards from being in contact with a graphics card, which will also decrease the cooling to said card. Granted some people use all of their slots anyway, and this probably won't help those people, but for people like myself who have 2 add-on cards and a large graphics card (with plans to add another), configurable slots would be a great advantage. Again, this probably would be a challenge to engineer, but I think that you guys have some pretty smart people working for you.

Also, I've noticed that my ATI (or AMD now, i guess...) 5850 puts a lot of stress on the PCI 2.0 slot when my computer is standing. I haven't had anything fail, but it is disconcerting to see the slot bend slightly with that much weight on it. Somehow reinforcing that slot with an additional backplate that distributes the weight across the rest of the motherboard, or better yet, redistributes it to the case, would put my mind at ease.

Finally, an integrated SSD (that's ideally user-replaceable) would be AWESOME for installing the O/S. You could just dedicate SATA 1 to that SSD by default, and have SATA 0 available for the dvd drive.

That SSD would only really be useful in the ultra-high end boards, so it's not much of a reality for the mainstream boards. However, i think the other ideas, especially the configurable PCI slots would be VERY useful to the mainstream market.
 
I'd love to see both options a high end offering without legacy support meant for overclocking and voltage tweeks for the high end.

on the other hand I'd love to see an ultra legacy board with such things as game ports and serial ports to use some old game controlers for low end builds.

I'd also like to see an onboard OS with basic functionality such as basic web browsing , likely based on a linux build that woudl allow instead of actually loading your main OS be it windows linux or hackintosh
that way we have a push button to on option if we wanna look up somethign fast online or maybe just run my pc in a lower power mode keeping most everythign at idle jsut being able to use a manifacturer light os would be nice
 
Please bring back dip switches so users can manually adjust their CPU clock rather than relying on the BIOS. Users who doesn't know how to manually set their CPU can also have the option set it from the BIOS.

Having dip switches let users get a better understanding as how the essential components are interlink to each other.
 
1. Move the exposed PCB components to the bottom and the connectors for components on the top to free up room and prevent accidents. This would give more space for those us with larger hands to install components with more room for moving around and putting components into place. This would also make it easier to eliminate dust.
2. SATA Connections should have slots that drives can slide and click into with a lock so installing and removing drives would be easier and require less screws. Consolidating the power and SATA connectors would also eliminate clutter and improve airflow with the chassis.
3. A small internal display to change BIOS/EFI settings as well as other functions. This should/could be connected to a separate (mobile based?) chipset that allows you too boot into a linux (android?) based OS to troubleshoot issues with the motherboard, as well as other functions. This would also allow the user to run 2 (two) concurrent operating systems simultaneously.
4. USB 3.0, Bluetooth 3, internal wireless keyboard/mouse transceiver, and other technologies that are cheap and simple to integrate but are options that are almost always extra ad-dons at a premium price. Most of these small cheap ad-dons would cost almost nothing to add.
5. A stretch would be a board with 2 CPU sockets next to active cooling systems with a switch that would allow testing of different chips on the same system or allow you to run both concurrently if the are compatible.
 
A great idea would be a new am3+ motherboard with all modern features (sata 3,usb 3,pci e 3.0),a hydra chip to combine cross platform gpus and spacing between the pci e slots to allow cf and sli cards to breathe.Also,nice touches would be:ram slots way from the cpu so there is no interference with large coolers,new standoffs that let you lift the motherboard upwards to install cooler backplates(a bit crazy I know),compact heatsinks which cool well but let enough space for any expansion,a red-black colour which looks really cool and finally instead of screws to secure the motherboard so it can be done toolless but not something like the intel push pins.
 
break out panel/header/cable for the jumpers, because i dislike having to open my case just to clear a bios or check my jumper settings (might as well go and plonk the bios battery here too)

one specific USB port (colored or labeled) that if occupied during post will be used as the preferred boot device

rear access RAM slots cause they are the most often failed/upgraded item, or at least somewhere i can get to them without needing to open the whole case (maybe a break out panel...)
 
1. Move the exposed PCB components to the bottom and the connectors for components on the top to free up room and prevent accidents. This would give more space for those us with larger hands to install components with more room for moving around and putting components into place. This would also make it easier to eliminate dust.
2. SATA Connections should have slots that drives can slide and click into with a lock so installing and removing drives would be easier and require less screws. Consolidating the power and SATA connectors would also eliminate clutter and improve airflow with the chassis.
3. A small internal display to change BIOS/EFI settings as well as other functions. This should/could be connected to a separate (mobile based?) chipset that allows you too boot into a linux (android?) based OS to troubleshoot issues with the motherboard, as well as other functions. This would also allow the user to run 2 (two) concurrent operating systems simultaneously. This would include a built in SSD, MicroSD, or SD card (and slots) to run the OS. The extra storage coulld be used to install more mobile apps (as well as for ready boost or as a boot disk etc for windows based systems).
4. USB 3.0, Bluetooth 3, internal wireless keyboard/mouse transceiver, and other technologies that are cheap and simple to integrate but are options that are almost always extra ad-dons at a premium price. Most of these small cheap ad-dons would cost almost nothing to add.5. A stretch would be a board with 2 CPU sockets next to active cooling systems with a switch that would allow testing of different chips on the same system or allow you to run both concurrently if the are compatible.[/citation]
And also built in IR, TV Tuner, surround sound card, and at least a mid level graphics card integrated that doesn't share memory with the system. Make them like the old ones that allow you to add your own memory to the graphics card. With OpenCL this memory would become available the the system when needed, not the other way around.
With this setup most of the slots would still be open as most components would be integrated, and would allow extensive upgrades later when the become necessary with room for all of them.
 
Things I would like to see in my next motherboard:

1. Quad Gigabit ethernet (two for iSCSI and two for LAN access)
2. Power connectors grouped together, just to help clean up cableing case
3. quality capcitors (I've had motherboards that died on me due to poor capcitors)
4. Easier method to install jumpers for case power button and LEDs
5. To help cut down on e-waste, a trade up program with motherboard manufactures
6. Ability to change connectors to suit needs (example sometimes we don't need to have analog audio, but would benefit with extra USB ports or even an eSATA port, so to be able to swap the analog audio out and install the extra ports would be a benefit)
7. onboard 64GB SSD drive
 



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how about attaching your SSD directly to the mobo? That way you arent limited to what the mobo comes with.
 
I would like to see a mobo with internal usb ports for my usb wireless mouse/ keyboard, so they dont have to be sticking out of the back. I have an all plastic casing so signals aren’t a problem.
 
I like a mini-itx mobo designed for HTPC for Intel 1156 (or future 1155, Bobcat, Llano - APU/SoC design only).

Rear Panel Ports
2 USB 3.0
1 HDMI
1 S/PDIF Out optical audio
1 gigabit ethernet port

Onboard
2 USB 2.0
2 sata 3Gps
1 built-in SSD with around 30GB for OS only
2 DDR3 1600 slots
1 PCIe 2.0 x16
2 fan
 
all i need is the pci slots space apart enough that i wont loose couple pci slots when install graphic cards. i pay for all the slot and i should be able to use them all.
 
Easy.. Clean, lean, and cool

1.) Already mentioned... plastic/thermal cover for eveything preferably with ribs for heat transfer. ( Like I need to keep dusting my chips )

2.) Legacy Support and Sound ... wasted space and BIOS functions your high end guys are buying cards.... Plan on it ( Oh no... what if I need a floppy for bios flash)

3.) Decent Fan Controller. Integrated thermal couples and front panel control. ( Liquid is nice.. but can be a mess)

Thanks

 
I would like a more rugged mobo, to withstand salt better, as in yachting salt corrosion, or literally 'at sea' computing (steps have been made: solid capacitors, but they come so slowly: ie. encapsulated mobo battery and perpendicularly mounted), while handle higher temperatures, and significant temperature differences in shorter time, on low entry-level pricing policies, ie. common features. thank you, marimax.
 
[citation][nom]DrClaw[/nom]A motherboard that has a utility built into the Bios to stress test your components. This would enable OCers to test their settings without having to constantly boot in their full OS. The UI for this stress test could also display pertinent information like voltages and temperatures.[/citation]

Give this man a motherboard!
 
Most of what i would like is already been expressed by others except, maybe what i'm about to suggest (hoever i haven't checked). Maybe open ended pcie slots (for those lower than x16). I would suggest not to put additional sata/esata/ide controllers if all you could license at the time would be crap like JMicron JMB363 was back in the day (there are a few crappy storage controllers still left). And i would also suggest a decent description of what kind of power can the onboard USB (2.0) ports have. Maybe add more power to existing USB 2.0 ports 'till 3.0 will be the only option. And maybe allow some of your mobos to still charge some external devices while the computer is off. this might prove a challenge with hungry devices like the iPad or DroidX but ight suffice for other peripherials.
 
a board that supports overclocking w\o voiding the warranty.four instead of two USB 3.0 ports.Wireless LAN.User defined fan speeds instead of PWM control.A good RAID controller (instead of relying on software solutions or an external RAID card).Four x16 slots with proper slot spacing.Increase space between the Ram slots and the CPU socket to allow the use of tall rams w/o interfering with the aftermarket CPU heatsink.The debug LED of course.Try using a daughter board that can be sold separately to support new CPU sockets.SATA 6 doen't matter to me.at least for now.The reason for this is that there's no HDD that is really bottlenecked by the current SATA 3Gbps.
 
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