ASRock Wants the Best Mobo Ideas in the World

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1.)Move the main power connector. I don't care where, but anywhere is better than where it is. Trying to move around hard drives or ROMs with that thing in the way is the biggest pain ever. It would be best above the CPU so its not stretched across the entire board, unless it was at the very bottom and you used a case that had the PSU in the bottom as well.
2.)Use DVI and not VGA for on board connectors.. You can convert DVI to VGA super easy but not the other way around.
3.)Put the connectors for SATA and IDE etc facing back up. Its much harder putting those things in blindly than when you can see them face on.
4.)Space out the SATA ports a little more, even if its a quarter inch.
5.)Bundle an adapter that sticks out an inch from the board to plug in all the case leds and power switches. Its a pain.
 
1. I'd like some fan-controller knobs next to each 3-pin fan connector.
2. I'd like the digital temp display to be detachable from the mobo, maybe stretching it with some wires so that I could place it anywhere on my case.
 
I want a real solid offer for a HTPC. In this motherboard I want:

-small form factor... mATX or something in that range.
-designed for fanless operation. Intel, AMD, VIA... doesn't matter. Low power and fanless... but with enough juice to encode on the fly.
-decent graphics card on board. I don't need gaming level graphics... but 3D acceleration is a must.
-integrated TV tuner with HDMI out. It's not an HTPC without it.
-good surround sound capable audio
-maximum connectivity... Ethernet, Wifi, Bluetooth, USB3, *Infrared receiver*
-most importantly, hardware with good Linux support. I want MythTV and XBMC on it.

The market really lacks a motherboard dedicated for life in a HTPC. Please fill this void!
 
i want a "closed" motherboard, witch i wouldnt see the PCB of it, neither the capacitors or any chip, just the SATAs/DIMMs/Processor Slot. like a new car engine. all clean.
 
Connection verification for all connections. Just a little tab that either pops in or out with a brightly colored top that lets you know your cable, card, ram, etc is fully seated. Having video card problems recently, I accidently partly unhooked the sata cable to my hard drive and it took awhile before I figured out why I couldn't POST.
 
sata near the top for optical drives, include a 90 degree adapter for the ATX power plug for cable management. include raid 0/1/5/10 on all boards. onboard wireless with an optional external antenna
 
1st of all, the motherboard should be less than 20 pounds

2nd, there should be 4 PCI E 3.0 slots (that may come out next year, just an idea without limitations and/or can implement normal pci or pci x1 slots without being covered by a graphics card, maybe re-arranging the normal pci slots somewhere else where we rarely use(I don't think most of us mind a normal pci slot or 2 somewhere in the motherboard as long as it doesn't interfere with our most import hardware and is it not a nuisance).,,,,,

3rd you should make a touch screen cpu that can lock on the cpu without the latch(I don't think that's possible)or make it have a lock and release button instead of the latch

4th make it possible to overclock your pc, ram, or graphics card on your motherboard with a connected controller screen attached to your usb(also detachable that is free....)

Last and most important thing, show us the power consumption of each item, Ram, Cpu, Graphics card, build a small screen showing the energy usage near them, that would be pretty sexy to me. Also if you didn't use strange colors like, pink and yellow, maybe darker and better looking colors would be cool...
 
I would like a reinforced bracket on the back of the CPU socket so I will not have to unscrew the whole motherboard when installing a third party CPU cooler.
 
I would love to see a Motherboard,.
With 6-10 SATA 6.0 ports with raid support.
So I can fully utilize my SSD's and not have to worry about data loss.
Running them thru SATA 3.0,.

I would also like to see it with its own memory buffer like you'd see in a raid card built right onto the motherboard.
With memory that for that would be upgradable as well just in case you need a bigger buffer later down the line.

As well as this motherboard having 4 SATA 3.0 ports, set aside for regular device's such as DVD burner and External SATA's.
But not controlled by the bio's raid function and having the SATA 3.0, and the SATA 6.0's with there each individual raid settings.


Then I would like to see a board with at least 2 PCI-E 1x slots.
And the rest PCI 16x slots, for great Crossfire and SLI support.
But also keep all the cards running at there max speeds, for example all 16x slots.
Running at 16x speeds, all the time getting every ounce of greatness out of them and.
Not letting them be slowed down by having multiple cards attached to them.
So no running 2 at 8x speeds, or 4 at 4x speeds, all the cards running at full 16x speeds, and the PCIE 1x never stunting the other cards as well.

But not to mention another on-board processor dedicated solely to processing the audio, and also the internet.
So it take's stress off the main CPU, to operate better at games and various other things.
This way someone doesn't have to go spend extra money on a audio card, or for that matter a netcard.

Another good support topic would be.
Massive memory support of up to 24+ Gigs of ram.
As well as Double processing power for Icore's or AMD 6 core processor's.

Unleashing massive processing power for high end gaming and also.
Have overclock support, for the super extreme gamers.
But also keep safety feature's installed that if a overclock would fail and cause damage to the motherboard, or components.
It resets the overclock automatically so they don't get damaged, but keep that as a user choice instead of forcing it upon them.


But moving onto the amazing specs of which I would love to see.
Let's also focus on the motherboard itself,.

I would love to see it with all copper heat sink's that can have fan attachments so the user doesn't have to go out.
And spends lots of money on getting it all set for a major overclock, as well as having easy accessibility to setting up any new hardware onto it.
placing of memory and built on heatsinks so that where the CPU is it can easily fit a Zalman heatsink on with no issues and no extra modding.

And make of all the capacitors from japan cause let's face it.
Japan has us beat basically on technology, so including there genius with a build like this would be a instant winner.
No to mention a 3-4 year warranty on this product would also set the stands cause hey.
If a company backs it up that much people are going to buy it.

Let's also give it all USB 3.0 ports, as well as at least 2 on-board USB ports.
For those people that really abusive the USB ports.

And you know what let's kick it up a notch.
Not only have the Network have its own processor, but lets give it dual Ethernet ports.
So it could be a relay with another computer, or get another net connection and feed it into it for increased network speeds.

Let's make the audio 7.2 compatible as well or higher for that matter.
As well as giving the motherboard a built in shock guard, to take the blunt off power surge's if they occur.
And let's not forget more special feature's.

if Gigabyte has a simple one touch overclock.
Why not a over clock for dummies?
Tell it what speed you want it at, and it will overclock it instantly for you to that speed.
As well as handling OC'ing for your graphics cards.


:3
That is what I'd like to see in a motherboard.
You asked my option and I gave it.

;D
Enjoy.
-Daniel Clatworthy-
😀
 
I would like a motherboard that eliminates the need of power cables! How?
Dunno exactly, but some kind of system, where the PSU is connected to the motherboard and nothing else from the former one; ie. hard drivers & Optical Drives, should be connected by a single cable from the motherboard :), and VGA cards should get all the needed power from the PCI-E slot (or by short cables from the motherboard to the card).
Oh! and add the idea from Sandisk (hehehe, the said it can be done, so, i'm just asking), add a little integrated SSD - 64 GBs is enough :)
 
Include interchangeable slot covers so that you can match your system to your tastes.
 
Drop all the Legacy crap , put in lots of USB 3.0 and ESATA for externals front and back no on-board audio, video or networking ( rather install My own options)more PMW Fan connectors PCI 3.0 with backward compatibly and at least 10 SATA connections.
 
I currently own an ASRock 890FX Deluxe3 and I can say that it is an excellent motherboard; from its great and solid feature set to future proof ability. Their is although always room for improvement. My number one problem is that we are still using a bios. I have seen articles about new IO systems but none have come to pass. I would love to see a simple GUI based bios for more than one reason. My main push for this is that I believe it would greatly aid over clocking. At the native level, the user can be read out speeds and voltages and then adjust his overclock to a desired level. Then, with the new BIOS technology, simple software programs can be pre-integrated for over clocking boards like Prime95 so it doesn't take as long or isnt as hard. Or ASRock could make an integrated OCer suite that would come with the board. Not only does this unlock that but software to repair corrupted MBRs automatically, software to check system HDD health extensively, and other programs could be added. The only thing that would need to be done is add another ROM chip to the motherboard and some extensive programming
 
i would like to motherboard to come with a great raid controler and with some ssd braquettes these are way to expansive for nothing
 
[citation][nom]1ni3shi[/nom]I'd like to see you take my idea and then charge me for it.If you don't know what customers want then go make something else.[/citation]
And how do you know what customers want without feedback form them? I doubt anyone there is telepathic.
 
Wire-management friendly motherboard, all the wires that plug into the motherboard placed on one edge of the motherboard ( including the ones that connect audio and usb that comes with cases, those tend to get placed in places that end up blocking air flow ).
 
UEFI and BIOS selectable at boot, But modable with the possibility for addons, an 256mb dram for the UEFI. not like the crippled HP notebooks. WiMax integrated, Bluetooth and TDT receiver onboard, MiniPCIe connector. Notebook type memory instead of those big sticks, with the same retention mechanism from the notebooks.RF system to power on pc with remote control from the living room, kitchen...
 
[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]

Agreed on the main point. A high end motherboard with no sata, usb, firewire, video, sound. Motherboard, card slots, ram slots, cpu socket. Enthusiasts aren't likely to want the low end onboard stuff anyway. Use the extra room from removing all that junk to add extra pci-e to accommodate the cards needed. It's not really THAT old school; good boards didn't have much of this stuff on them all the way up to around the p2 era.

I'd also like to see a board line that had optional water cooling for the whole thing right from the manufacturer instead of having to go aftermarket.

As others have said. UEFI is a must. 3TB drives are fairly cheap. Most enthusiasts run raid. I looked and looked for a board with uEFI during my last purchase decision and I could not find a single i7 generation board with uEFI (outside of mac oem). I had to partition my 6Tb array because of this.
 
I would like to see a modular motherboard. If you don't want legacy ports on it then remove them. If you want a chipset upgrade then just buy the upgrade kit. You could still make money on board modules while lowering the work involved in upgrades or even repairs (instead of removing the whole board you could remove parts of it).
 
The motherboard should support both CrossfireX and SLI, SATAII and SATAIII, USB 2 and USB 3, the Lucid chip to enable mixing of graphics card, RAM slots that are spaced appropriately from the CPU socket so that aftermarket HSF don't interfere as much. I also think that there should be a configurable motherboard that can be purchase (just like how computers can be configured online), that way people can get whatever they want for a reasonable price. There should be the 24 pin power that is at a 90 degree angle to asist in wire management. An upgradeable CPU socket (i.e LGA1156 to LGA1155, AM3 to AM3+), roll-back bios to assist in a failed overclock. But mainly, I want to see a configurable motherboard in the future 😀.
 
WIth the proliferation of graphics cards, and the usefulness of SLI/Crossfire, I think the ideal feature to have in a new board is the ability to have PCI-e 2.0 x16 slots that have enough space between them so that a double width card could draw in air with the fan and not be pressed against the next double width card. For 3 or 4 way SLI, or for folding farms, this would be a real boon, keeping the graphics cards cooler. Additionally, the ability to control how the PCI-E bandwidth is distributed would be great, so one could have 2 outer slots running at x16 and the middle one running at x8, for a less powerful graphics card (or PhysX, if anyone is still using that.)

When looking for a motherboard to make a CUDA supercomputer, it's hard to find one where 3 boards can fit on the mobo with breathing room, and impossible to find one where 4 boards aren't all crammed in against each other.

When you consider that someone building a CUDA box with the Tesla cards is spending $2500-$3500 per card for 4 cards, I'm sure they would drop an extra hundred or two on a mobo that allowed all those cards to get better circulation, stay cool, and last longer.

These aren't major redesign issues (except controlling PCI-e bandwidth,) but rather are things that simply require new geometry.
 
I like to see the PCI-E slots well spaced and still having a couple PCI slots, i like the slot layout of the one in the picture for the article, gives you a nice spread and even with two or three GPUs if you need a PCI and a PCI-E 1x slot you can still get to them, or have extra space for airflow for the GPUs.

I would like to see the ports for the front panel connectors put on the top edge or the top of the front edge of the board so you dont have the run the front audio cable all the way across the board like on my M4A79T, it would make routing the shorter cables from the case easier.
 
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