Advise on motherboard purchase

[Franz Waldmüller]

Hi r,

r wrote:
> On 01-Oct-10 16:51:06 Franz Waldmüller wrote:
>> Hi,
> 
>> I am about to assemble a new PC as my really old ones are dying. I don't 
>> like to buy a new machine every two years that is why I am looking for 
>> some "future proof" components.
> 
> I built a PC about a year ago, and one problem I found out after 
> 
> assembling was that the motherboard had a huge amount of USB on
> 
> the motherboard, but the tower only had a few sockets.
> 
> Most of the USB couldnt be utilized, these are the sockets which
> 
> connect to the ones at the front of the tower.
> 
> Unless someone knows how to utilize these.
> 
I will take care of this topic when selecting the tower.
At the moment I am considering these cases:
http://www.antec.com/Believe_it/product.php?id=MjEyMw==
http://www.antec.com/Believe_it/product.php?id=MTgyNg==
or something more elegant:
http://www.lian-li.com/v2/en/product/product06.php?pr_index=289&cl_index=1&sc_index=25&ss_index=63&g=q

> 
> USB3 is the main reason I need to upgrade also, as it seems to need
> 
> a PCIexpress card, but the current motherboard has just 1 PCI express
> 
> slot used by the graphics card.
> 
There are multiple PCIe-slots on the selected motherboard. Unfortunately 
when using a big video card some of these slots will be blocked.

> 
> I like the transparent tower cases, as there is more light for making
> 
> changes, less need for a torch. Also they look cool with neon light
> components.
> 
> 

Case wise I am looking for a case with a hot-swap harddisk bay. Or at 
least a case in which I can easily change hard disk. (I had some problem 
with 1,5 TB seagate drives and spend a lot of hours under the table 
exchanging harddisk.)

Franz