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What i want is very simple.
Please make me an itx board that supports the new AMD Fusion Zacate cpu+gpu in one or APU.
And just like your asrock a330i atom ion board i want this in dual channel ddr3 desktop memory,
and must support overclocking because your a330i does overclock too.
I need every conceivable video out like vga, hdmi, dvi and rgb component.
There still a lot of monitors, tvs, projectors out there that need these video inputs.
It must have USB3 so i can play my HD video files speedily from an external drive.
Try to fit in as many sata ports as you can and give me esata also
Pls give the board 8.1 channel sound.
A pcie 16x slot just like the a330i. I might want hybrid crossfire someday.
If you can give it another pciex4 slot for wifi N cards.
You can do this and you can start now since AMD has the Fusion Zacate cpu+gpu in production already so might as well design it now.
It would be great if it has a cpu socket instead of being soldered on so we can upgrade to higher speed fusions in the future.
Im not very happy with the dualcore atom. It does save power but
its still slow.
Low power pcs are important now, becaue it would be foolish to use a full sized desktop just to download movies or programs when its stting there eeating up a hundred watts of power when you can do the same thing just using 30 to 40 watts.
Also for watching HD video it doenst make sense to use a quadcore eating up lots of electricity just doing that.
There are tasks like browsing the internet, watching videos and downloading that most people do nowadays. It doesn't have to take much power but shouldnt be slow either.
Its not meant to replace a fully equipped hi performance pc but as a complement to it.
In many countries electrical costs have gone up that its now eating as much as 30 percent of a person's income.
Ive already outgrown my fascination for 3dgames,so a low power yet speedy pc is perfect for my needs as long as it can play HD videos well since honestly
if you dont have the right optimized media players even a dualcore atom 330 overclocked to 2ghz and with a nvidia ion cant play 1080p hi bitrate content fluently, it drops frames.
Im betting the new AMD fusion chips wont be slow and they can be a much better replacement to the atom with only a slightly higher power draw when we compare system to system total power draw.
YEt it will perform much faster so please ready this board so i can buy it soon.
Hope you have it ready by year's end.






 
I would like to see a motherboard with interchangeable components. Need a new socket, just buy a socket. That would require some SERIOUSLY robust construction though, since it could be hard to anticipate new tech. It would need to be powerful enough to take in an input, convert it, and still not bottleneck.
 
Redo memory slots, put them at an angle (not perpendicular with the board) or space them so you can get around large heatsinks. I'm sick of cutting myself trying to get those things in and out. While you're at it, some sort of health light on each dimm would be awesome too so you can easily find bad sticks.
 
I want a mobo with self diagnostic lights or tools included in design.So that it would be easier for to see which parts giving trouble.Also a board with less old stuff.Put only those latest advancement usb 3 sata 3 and pci expres 2 or if you want you could make these thing backward compatible.
 
There seems to be a large amount of people who do not know the difference between a chip set manufacturer and a motherboard manufacturer.
 
I build a lot of computers, and my general complaints on motherboards are all the same.

Most boards have a lot of front panel headers (usb, HD audio, 1394, etc) at the bottom of the board, close to the backplate of the computer chasis. These need to be in a more convenient location that is not often blocked by expansion cards. I've seen a lot of Intel boards that put most of these connectors on the opposite side (close to the front of the chasis) which I like.

PATA. Seriously? Boards do not need this any more. Put something more useful in it's place, or alternatively hide that in the places that are hard to reach around the PCI and PCI-e slots.

SATA. Everyone uses SATA, put them up top, next to the RAM, this would make me very happy.

The 24-pin power connector is all in all placed at a rather good location by most companies, but if you could make sure it's near some standoffs so it doesn't feel like I'll break the board plugging the thing in that'd be great.

On boards intended for SLI/Crossfire, it's nice to have a space between two double slot cards so they can breathe a little. I've seen a lot of my configurations get rather hot.
 
It won't happen but...

I want a mobo that puts the PCI slots closer to the PSU and drive units so that I don't have to drap cables for additional drives/dvd over the mobo and memory chips.

I'd like to see
 
1. Return 2X PATA.

2. IO faceplate attached onto the motherboard so the KB, USB, sound, and other back connectors are bit harder to loosen and come out of the motherboard. At the top of the motherboard have the IO faceplate bend 90 degress to attach alone the top edge of the motherboard. Have it come to angle to end about at the CPU fan connector.

3. Made the RAM slots two piece and detachable from the motherboard. The top be a cradle to hold the RAM and the bottom have a lockdown and release. I really hate pushing RAM into current slots. Some require nearly breaking the motherboard before the RAM is seated.
 
I'd like to see real-time overclocking results that test my components and report whether or not they are working. I wouldn't look for "stability" questions to be answered. I just don't like resetting the cmos everytime I make in incorrect adjustment. Also, tell me via a small display system stats. Temperatures, memory recognized, cpu recognized, pci slots in-use, etc.

I'd like to see multiple cmos settings that I can select at boot time so that I can test out 4 or 5 settings for stability, and/or have one for gaming, one for 'idle time' (work).


 
I would like any motherboard connectors to be in such arrangement where there will no cables connection accross the borad,to make the board as clear as posible and to make our rig look very tidy and nice looking.The existing cable for HSF cooler is still acceptable.
Prefer all IDE,floppy,SATAs at the front.ATX power supply sockets and mobo auxillary supply and any other auxillary power socket to located at front side by side.
As a user I prefer a neat looking rig,performance so far is in far with others.

Performance wise,engineer can work on it.
 
My dream AMD motherboard would have.....

-no onboard audio, serial port, parallel port, floppy, IDE

-12 internal Sata ports. I've got a tonne of drives and I 6 internal is way to limiting and eSata, USB are a waste of deskspace when you have large cases like the Coolermaster Cosmos. I want those drives inside dammit where they belong as well as have extra ports for optical drives for Bluray drives.

-SLi and Crossfire capability WITHOUT looking at a Lucid abortion which doesn't work in linux

-all slots to be PCI-e x16 form factors, at least 2 of them x16 electrical.

-at least two Gbit nic ports

-EFI support, the BIOS is dead, long live EFI

-no proprietary crap that isn't supported in linux fully

 
Adjustable Card slots. Too many times have I been setting up a water cooled system only to find out that I just don't have enough room between my two cards.

It would be nice to be able to slide the slots to the desired spacing.


Not exactly possible, but that is my dream.
 
get all the sata plug out of the gpu's way or include lots of 90 degree sata calbe. and if only all the pci e slot can pointing toward top of the case, or get ram to the side where IDE use to be. or having a chip that can consume the heat from gpu and cpu and turn it into power to reduce energy consumption
 
How about a more segmented motherboard? Put all the power connectors together, all the headers together, move any parts that stick out of the board that users do not mess with (MOSFETs, capacitors, chips with heatsinks etc.) away from anything that users do have to mess with (RAM slots, CPU socket, headers, power connectors etc). Also, test the CPU socket with the largest coolers you can find, to make sure that there is enough room.
Apart from that, USB 3, properly spaced PCI-e slots, and a more user-friendly BIOS.
 
I'd like to see a motherboard with a small color screen like those on top of cell phones. During boot, it could display useful information (instead of cryptic codes) that could help isolate problems. After boot, it could be used as a Sideshow compatible device in Windows or as a monitoring display for temperature, fans, etc... These modes could be selected in the BIOS.

Ideally, this screen would be mountable on the exterior of the case, with a wire long enough to place it on the front. Or it could be placed inside, for those who have transparent panels. All is needed is a connector on the board. This setup would also have the advantage of allowing the manufacturer to propose the screen as an optionnal feature, reducing initial cost for the buyer.

If, possible, this screen could also be used to play music from the BIOS without booting to the system (like some laptop), using a flash drive as storage for example.
 
I'd like a motherboard designed to reduce workspace, while still providing adequate cooling. The Power supply can be external so to reduce internal heating issues. My opinion anyways

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One thing that I find very important in the motherboard is not solely due to the features on it when it works but how the company handles the problem when it stops working. From a poor experience I've had with ASUS for example, I've concluded that it doesn't matter all the features they advertise: if they don't have the customer service to back their products, it'll never be worth it.

As for what I like to see in the next generation of motherboard hardwares, I would like to see boards that allows you to disable certain PCI/RAM slots without taking out the hardware, very often do I have to go through tons of trouble to diagnose a certain problem by constantly removing and replugging the components in an attempt to diagnose a certain problem.

Another feature that's often missing from all motherboards in this generation is a temperature probe for the important chipsets like the northbridge/southbridge.
 
Like other have already said, PATA and FDD connectors should be gone even in the mid-tier motherboards. Also, a minimum requirement of 2 SATA ports for only optical disk drives, as seen in Maximus III formula. At least 6 SATA ports for HDD or SSDs. For the gamer/enthusiast level MB, all sata ports should be sata III, mid-tier, at least SATA port 1 should be the Sata III.

Leave the IDE interface alone as I like my SATA, and not RAID interface on BIOS, and it's much easier for a relative newb like me.
 
well it would be nice if there was a LED on top of all Slots, be it PCI or PCI-E,Sata ,the LED would light up whenever a card is properly insert.The reason i want this is so I can identify if i have inserted a hardware properly without booting up the machine, into windows...and wonder why its not detected, Now i would know its not plug in or I would know if there was a possible hardware failure.

I want Temperature Probe on 4 corners and center of the motherboard, I want to see how my air float goes within the case, is cool air coming from the bottom and going to the top? How does turning on or off a particular case fan affects the different temperature.Are all the hot air gathering in one place?

Intergrated Dual band Wifi would be nice....

Power Monitoring features, the molex from the PSU will first go into this pass-thru connector which is monitored by the motherboard, then goes into its intended peripherals , same for PCI-E power etc, the purpose is to monitor total system power usage AND warn us of any power drops outside of the10% ATX specs, most of the time we won't know of a system crash cause by a weak 12v link, common user simply don't have a way to find out. I want to know i'm not pulling 450watt out of my 400watt PSU when i'm playing games. The monitoring and logging features should be run on a Bios level with access within windows via software, windows wouldn't be able to log or resport if its crashed due to voltage dipping, the Bios can continue run on battery.
I'll just boot system back up,go into Bios, check my latest power report and see if last crash was power related.



 
Add a couple sets of power pins that can be connected to standard case LEDs and neon cathodes. Then have software controlling the power to these pins.

My idea comes from my brightly lit up case with all the LEDS inside but it sucks when u are trying to sleep and yur whole room is blue. The only way to turn them off is to take the side of the case off and unplug them. If a mother board had software controlled power pins you could easily turn your leds on and off with a click of the mouse or some shortcut key.
Maybe even do some fun stuff with getting the lights to react to whats playing on the audio channel so the LEDs go to the music.
 
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