I have seen pictures of the bottom of the T1 680i motherboards and I was wondering if you found a pci slot and screwed it into the T1 motherboard could you achieve 3 pci slots. I have pics of the bottom of the T1 and A1 boards. T1 http://www.newegg.com/Product/ShowI...ion=EVGA+122-CK-NF67-T1+ATX+Intel+Motherboard A1 http://www.newegg.com/Product/ShowI...ion=EVGA+122-CK-NF63-TR+ATX+Intel+Motherboard
It's a nice idea but I would pretty much stay away doing it for the reasons outlined below. 1) These are multi-layered PCB's (Printed Circuit Board's) and extremely difficult to solder without the right equipment. Simply screwing a PCI slot onto the board would not help. And the PCI slots are fixed by the soldering of the pins not by a screw fixing. 2) The BIOS of the system would probably need updating to reflect there is an additional PCI slot so the rest of the system could use it, however I wouldnt want to flash a modified BIOS to my own PC as the chances of it being rendered useless are too high. 3) In theory it could work if you managed to accomplish the above two points, and if anyone could do it, they would probably be working for MSI, Gigabyte, Intel etc in their product design & development teams lol! Nice idea though ;o)
Besides that empty port is just an 8x PCI Express, Ie: Standard, (up until recently) PCI ecpress was 16X, until SLI then both ports dropped to 8X, but they share the load, and somehow performance is made. But now with those 2 BLUE PCI express PORTs SLI can be achieved at 16X for both Cards. In my personal opinion, I wouldnt bother with a 3 PCI Express board, Graphic card technology is being produced at in an expontiental fashion. So to have 3 OK cards in SLI, rather than 2 Top of the line cards @ 16X.
that boards are the same boards i got t1 ,t1 is for pc builders with 2 year warranty and a1 is the same board just with lifetime limited warranty and some more usb and firewire slots edit: that t1 is light not the same as a1 below
