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-a post code LED display is always nice and can help with overclocking if your trying to dial it in just right.
-possibly a turbo button, or the pinout for a button that could give a slight increase to the bus speed on demand.
-a fan with plastic shroud over northbridge that could also direct air to the memory. Southbridge could benefit from a heatpipe in this config.
-side facing LED lights around ASRock/motherboard logo/name printed on board. this would show off the board make and model in a window case and look fairly cool similar to the way military ships spotlight their name sometimes in port. with the light pointing sideways you also wont get it being annoying for anyone sitting next to it as long as the light faces the backplate.
-a small linux kernel preOS option that could be used to auto recover a windows partition (system recovery) would be great, but just file access and possibly internet would be fine as well.
or
-have an option where it could create a recovery partition for you on the hard drive from a windows or other OS's disk before it boots to the disk for installation. should be doable by a simple file name/size scan and batch scripts disignating the parameters. A preOS may still be necessary
 
There are 2 options I would like, although one would be quite pricey. How about a 2 cpu mobo for home use. This way you can have 32 lanes of pci-e via the processor for 2 video cards and then 32 more lanes from the other chip for sata/usb3/additional video cards. Another thing I would like is arranging the slots so that pci-e 1x slots are not under the video cards. most of the time the socket under the pci-e 16x slot is completely unusable with todays cards. Making a larger full size mobo should easily fix this issue.
 
Dear ASRock,

Here is what I would like to see in a motherboard: more space for expansion cards. I know that there are standards that are generally conformed to for board sizes, but they're really not big enough for double-height graphics cards. Rather than sticking the PCI-e x1 and x4 slots and the PCI slots between the PCI-e x16 slots, where they're covered up by graphics card coolers, I'd rather have a taller board with the slots spread out more. This also allows you to separate the graphics cards for better cooling without compromising the total number of cards you can have in the system. Here is a sample configuration that would be good:

PCI-e x1
PCI-e x1
PCI-e x16 (or x16/x8)
no slot
PCI
PCI-e x16 (or x8)
no slot
PCI-e x4
PCI-e x16 (or x16/x8)
no slot
PCI
PCI-e x16 (or x8)
with enough space below to support a 2- or 3-slot cooler.

Yes, I know we're talking about 12-13 slots here, and I know most cases don't support that, so it'd be great to see some good-quality matching cases as well. It's just a shame that on standard-sized motherboards, you have to make choices between graphics cards and discrete sound/network/SATA expansion cards.

Thanks. :)
 
I currently own an ASROCK X58 Extreme3, only a couple of points with this board. 1)The manual had no instructions into settting up the SATA 3 for O/S. 2)Some BIOS items were missing "TURBO" just wasn't there but turbo was definately working.
3)Not enough powered USB ports. 4)Energy saving software utility conflicts with Norton IS.

These are only small issues for a board that works well at a good price but it did take a little time to work through that last issue.

The features that are required are: (I won't talk about features in alread released boards).
1)Good quality build with good components.
2)END all legacy componentry in high end boards X58 and P55 type boards that means PCI slots, IDE, Floppy, TPM, PS2, Firewire
2)Card Slots 1😛Cie x1
2😛Cie x16
3:vacant (most people with thse types of boards use 2 slot cards.
4😛Cie x1
5😛Cie x16
6:vacant Same as 3
7😛cie x1
Tri-Sli is not a usefull application any more and only needs to be on 1 Uber-High end board not on every one.

Get rid of on-board audio and the plugs outback Realtek, Creative and others can fill the low end user demand with some cheaper PCie x1 audio cards, no one uses on board video any more.

Push INTEL to produce next gen SATA 3x8 chipset 6 0nboard and 2 external(powered slots) and full support for USB 3 and all slots to be fully powered and all to be high speed no wonky unpowerd and slow ports any more.

Get rid of case fan plugs, what is needed is a next gen ATX Standard CASE rules which specifies a Molex powered fan controller to control all case fans by PWM and a USB header for fan controller on motherboard to allow for software control of fans.

Mandatory DEBUG LED in all ATX boards and board manufacturers to provide a bootable diagnostic disc for on-board hardware.Panel headers all to be located in the same place on the board not all over the place and preferably on the topside of the board.

Manufacturers to answer support emails within 3 days an no leave people in the lurch.

Getting rid of all the useless gizmo's, slots, headers will make the board a lot cheaper to assemble!
 
Digital displays of current going to CPU and GPU for overclocking. Temps as well. They just need to be little led digit displays.

Hot-Swappable SATA Ports

Use of UEFI instead of BIOS. Where else do you use technology thats 20+ years old.
 
What id like to see is:
For Cable management:
The screws that screw the mother board down, give us a few that have small/medium/large hooks instead of the screw top, so that we can run our cables that sometimes have to (fan cables) cross the board under these hooks.
Move as many sata/internal usb/cpu power ports to the edges of the board, maybe the cpu power port to the top of the board, sata to the lower right hand corner, and usb very close below them.

For Cooling:
I recall seeing a cpu cooler that had a bracket u attach to your rear fan to concentrate that fans whole pull on the cpu. What about having the option of a similar bracket that could be attached to all the electrics by the cpu that would attach to a third/half of the rear fan. this would ensure that it is getting airflow. You could also tie it all inn (as you have above) with the heatpipe and just have all heat from the mother board being effectively removed from the chassis itself.

General other stuff:
ditch IDE, ditch the floppy connector, the cost of a sata dvd rom is negligible at best and there is no real reason for these ports to be on modern motherboards.
Lights around the sata connectors, pci-e slots, ram slots, cpu slot are nice, as long as they are not permanently on. A button to turn them on/off would be great. If you happen to put that button on a panel that can display POST errors, or cpu/mb temp when in OS, then that would be amazing. Perhaps this panel could be the size of old floppy drives and fit in that slot for easy front side access/viewing.
Maybe a seperate button on the backpanel to light it up for when we are plugging in peripherals.

Jerome
 
I've always liked ASRock Motherboards. They are just fine the way they are but if I had to choose, I think a non-legacy board would be a good start. Maybe Dr. Dre's "beats' sound chip... bluetooth, wireless, ir sensor... etc..
 
I personally would like to take advantage of how cheap AMD's processors are by having a dual, tri and quad socket motherboard. But not in the way that motherboards use them, I would want an integrated processor that regulates and allows for Parallel Processing between x many processors, instead of more threads that most likely won't be utilized.

Another feature absent from motherboards is the ability to definitively choose chipsets, now I'm not saying have removable/upgradeable chipsets (although that would be awesome), I'm saying the ability to switch from a ATi chipset to a Nvidia Chipset, to allow for versatility.
 
How about making some cable ribbons that fit in the gpu slot(s). This would help if my tower suddenly becomes too small for the latest and greatest gpu that comes out, but is the size of a brick. Maybe even throw in some clear lexan mounting brackets that the gpu can be mounted on the mobo to create a floating look. add a few lights and the coolness factor should attract some buyers.

clear brackets for fans or water hose/cable management might not be a bad idea also.
 
It would be great to have access to media files on my computer while my computer is off/stand by. With all the new media playing devices (XBOX360, Blueray Players, etc.), that are lan based connected, that can play files from my computer. It would be nice not to have to turn on the computer.

i. For power consumption.
ii. For ease of use.
iii. Noise.
 
I want the Ultimate Gaming and HTPC Motherboard.

Matx or ATX, doesn't matter too much.

4 ram slots, SLI/Crossfire Capible.
2 Modes selectable by software keymap: Silent HTPC mode at stock speeds (maybe slightly underclocked)
Or
Gaming mode: Medium overclock, Fans at appropriate levels.

Blur the lines between discreet graphics and on board - Provide Optical In AND outputs. HDMI would be great, but in and outputs - But might be impossible. See if it can be done! you'd be the first.

I'd also like to see support for NIC Teaming out of the box (performance, not redundancy)

An internal video connector for LCD Touchscreens on cases would be nice as well.

Basically - Make the Ultimate HTPC Mobo, which is also a very good Gaming/overclocking rig.

 
Back in the 80's RAM disks used to be very useful to speed up a computer by just configuring the OS to use it as temporary space. Since flash drives are cheap and common, why not integrate a fast flash drive (4GB or 8GB) in the motherboard for this purpuose? Most people don't have enough resources to buy a SSD and most commercial USB flash drives have very slow read/write rates. An integrated flash drive that is available at boot could be helpful to store temporaty files, the internet explorer cache, the pagefile.sys or leave it to the user to store encrypted sensitive data.
 
A modualar system where you could phyically remove components you don't need or be able to power them down so the bios isn't aware of them using jumpers would be nice. This could also be a way to upgrade components within the same generation of hardware. for instance, lets say my motherboard currently only supports DDR3-1066, but I want to use DDR3-1600, I would simply pop off the memory controller module and replace it with the newer version and now it'll run at the 1600 that I need. Or lets say I don't need any of my PCI slots, I can simply switch a few jumpers and *poof*, all the PCI slots are gone leaving me only PCI-E. At this point if you look in the bios it would reflect that PCI slots are disabled by not listing these devices. I might have a DVI and HDMI port but need two DVIs. I'd remove the HDMI and replace the adapter modual with a second DVI and I'm done. Fewer resources to manage means less power consumption, and more CPU cycles for other processing.

A second idea I've been thinking about is the ability for the motherboard to clock itself down and not shut off if it begins to overheat. Lets say I have my processor overclocked from 2.8GHz to 3.4GHz and it starts to overheat. It will beep to notify me that it will begin to underclock the overclocked processor 100MHz at a time until it reaches a stable operating temperature. This will leave my system operational while I save and shutdown. You could set the threshholds on this on how far below the current speed you would like for it to drop before it completely shuts down the system.
 
I would love a motherboard that could handle firewall, and routing business. A fanless, dual nic card micro atx maybe, amd or intel. Almost forgot, a few slots for wireless adapter. Bottom line, a fast router that beats those very expensive routers. X86 forever !!!
 
I would love a motherboard that could handle firewall, and routing business. A fanless, dual nic card micro atx maybe, amd or intel. Almost forgot, a few slots for wireless adapter. Bottom line, a fast router that beats those very expensive routers. X86 forever !!!
 
id like to have a board with the ability to wire manage. move the onboard sound connectors to the right side of the board. have one pci slot at the bottom for older sound cards 3-way sli and crossfire capable all on the same board. fans on the north and south bridge heat tubes and power caps for additional cooling for over clocking. lights that indicate hardware failure on the cpu, pci, pci-e, main power connector for psu monitoring. A bios reset button on the back panel for bios reset. a power button onboard for pre build testing (meaning to test the system before installation into the case. id rather know before things get tight in the case.) easy bios updater, a program that lets you update the bios from windows with out the use of floppy or a flash drive. no IDE connectors their to old school. Must have USB-3 and sata-6. a bios light for bios issues. an extender for the case leds and power/reset switches for easy install of the connectors, they are small as is, no need for needle nose pliers to install them. onboard wireless internet, blue tooth. the ability to over volt the gpu/s for increased preformance. the ability to have 6 usb-3 connectors and 4 usb-2 connectors.

for a m-ATX the ability to run cross fire for ati/amd users or run 2-way sli for Nvidia users not necessarily on the same board.( have one board do sli and another do crossfire. this will allow for more gpu power in a portable gaming system.) must have USB-3 and sata-6 for the optimal speed for SSD's. fans on the north, south, and power caps for cooling. IDE connector for those that have IDE devices that just want to upgrade the processor, ram, and mother board.(Example some one bought a prebuilt system and doesn't want to buy a new case, HDD, CD-ROM ect. but wants the new tech.) good onboard graphics ati 5700 series or better, or Nvidias 450 series or better for those who dont want or need all the power multiple gpus give you.
 
like the name mainboard is the central board that connect parts, thus stability and reliability is top priority
top quality materials
also fail prove (this just pure my thought, but if BIOS have more fail prove protection & detection isnt it will be great?)

dual chipset ? maybe sound stupid, but i am thinking that now we having multi-core processor, multi-gpu, triple channel ram,
chipset while work like bridge (from my understanding) it still one chipset if
while i know what issue will arise, like conflict between chipset and much more,or maybe not needed, but again just my thought
 
I just want fricken SLI with an AMD processor. Best would be a decent integrated NVidia GPU for physics with 3xSLI PCIE 2.0 expansion or a mATX with decent integrated NVidea GPU for physics with 2xSLI PCIE 2.0 expansion.
I wouldn't mind SATA III RAID 0/1/10/5/6 support.
Its a given that USB 3.0 and SATA III should be standard on any new board.

Oh, and please quit with the legacy junk. Hardly anyone has any need for ps/2, pci, IDE or floppy connections. If you include that, you may as well stick AGP, ISA and EISA along with AT keyboard connectors. OH oh, don't forget Serial and Parallel too... NOT! Please leave firewire to the macs.
 
[citation][nom]ruili[/nom]Strip It! Simplify! I want a motherboard designed for those of us that embrace new technology. I want to see the first motherboard with no legacy crap on it. No IDE(pata), floppy, serial, VGA/D-sub, firewire(its dead jim), PCI, PS2 ports. I want 1 bloody video port standard! Somebody just pick one already! I won't buy another MB with 3 different video ports! I want USB 3. Work with AMD and get that crap stripped from the chipsets too. There has got to be some performance advantage to not have chipsets and motherboards designed around legacy junk tech. People who don't want to upgrade away from 10 year old CRTs, IDE CD burners and their massive collection of porn on 3.5" floppies have plenty of motherboards to choose from already.(A real sound chip would be nice too)[/citation]

Ding, ding, ding! Winner!
 
Make a 171x171 microATX M/B with the PCIe adaptor on it's side to one can make a thin gamming PC.

Team up with a case maker to provide a thin, wide and deep case that can fit serveral 3.5" and 2.5" HDD's and you'll have a unique product that can be sold as a HTCP, gamming console or a backpack work station.
 
I currently own an ASROCK X58 Extreme3, only a couple of points with this board.
1) The manual had no instructions into settting up the SATA 3 for O/S.
2) Some BIOS items were missing "TURBO" just wasn't there but turbo was definately working.
3) Not enough powered USB ports.
4) Energy saving software utility conflicts with Norton IS.

These are only small issues for a board that works well at a good price but it did take a little time to work through that last issue.

The features that are required are: (I won't talk about features in alread released boards).
1) Good quality build with good components.
2) END all legacy componentry in high end boards X58 and P55 type boards that means PCI slots, IDE, Floppy, TPM, PS2, Firewire
3 ) Card Slots 1😛Cie x1
2😛Cie x16
3:vacant (most people with thse types of boards use 2 slot cards).
4😛Cie x1
5😛Cie x16
6:vacant (Same as 3)
7😛cie x1
I t would also be a good idea for an 8th slot for cases to be mandated for ATX standard boards to allow for Pcie x16 slot at position 7.
Tri-Sli is not a usefull application any more and only needs to be on 1 Uber-High end board not on every one.
Get rid of on-board audio and the plugs outback. Realtek, Creative and others can fill the low end user demand with some cheaper PCie x 1 audio cards, no one uses on board video any more. Onboard Video and Sound are for low end and business type machines. This needs to be an enduser selection process.
Push INTEL to produce next gen SATA 3 x 8 chipset 6 0nboard and 2 external (powered slots) and full support for USB 3 and all slots to be fully powered and all to be high speed no wonky unpowered and slow ports any more. 6 USB3 and E-Sata at rear 2 USB3 and 1 E-Sata at top panel.
Get rid of case fan plugs, what is needed is a next gen ATX Standard CASE rules which specifies a Molex powered fan controller to control all case fans by PWM and a USB header for fan controller on motherboard to allow for software control of fans.
Mandatory DEBUG LED (with display change button to display othe data like CPU/MB temp. All ATX boards and board manufacturers to provide a bootable diagnostic disc for on-board hardware.
Headers not all over the place and preferably on the topside of the board.
Mandatory power, reset, clr cmos on board in an easy to reach place when full of cards poking with pencil ok.
Manufacturers to answer support emails within 3 days an not leave people in the lurch, the provision of mandatory DEBUG LEDS and a Diagnostic Disc could reduce the number of email support requests.
2 Year warranty.
Getting rid of all the useless gizmo's, slots, headers will make the board a lot cheaper to assemble and easier to install!
Asrocks boards are generally well laid out, the Gigabyte features of the useless PCie x 1 at the top of the board defy comprehension, ASUS' s "dozens of boards policy" is also bizzare.
 
ok ... everyone say this with me... U E F I ... on more time... U E F I
The BIOS is dead tech.

ok... UEFI... so i can have the choice of Running Windows or Mac OS X.....Sorry Apple, Your hardware designs still blow chunks. Just give me the OS and let ME design the Platform.

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On another note...

Modular expansion.
I have a personal pet pieve with heat, and space. There is always too much heat, and not enough space.

I would like to see optical data interconnects on the board that allow you to expand your computer peripheral entourage into multiple chassis. Hey, I want to be able to have as many monitors as I want, and I will need a larger bus to handle them all.
So its like this, I want 4 PCiEXx16 on the main chassis. Then in the expansion box with Optical data interconnect, I want 4 more, and at least 4 per expansion module.

Also it would be nice to have Intels 80 Core parallel processor controlling it. I don't see any reason why there shouldn't be at least 4 unique front side bus pipelines with that many Cores.

For the love of all that is Holy please look into holographic Memory.
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/09/holographic-storage-phase-change-memory-nearing-the-market.ars

Might as well make the entire system communicate via light. bye bye electron, hello photon!
 
I have three more ideas: First, can you make a well spaced out motherboard for inputs such as usb, optical out, and eSata? My computer is great and all but I have to use 2 hubs because I use large usb devices, such as magicjack and a usb Tv Tuner.

Second: How about a Tv tuner built into the motherboard, I'm sure with a little work it can be done. With something like that integrated, its value as a pc or HTPC goes way up. Currently most computer enthusiats have larger monitors than televisions, and by providing a built in TV tuner, you provide TV, over the air digital, and ways for people to connect their consoles to their monitor without having to buy extremly expensive converter boxes.

Third: I've had issues with drivers being reinstalled multiple times with the removal and reinsertion of usb devices, this has caused clutter amongst my drivers and is taking up (although minimal) space. What if the motherboard had an onboard chip to store driver device data. If you can do it, you could prevent repetitive driver installation. This can save precious time and remove clutter from the system.
 
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