what is wrong with motherboard companies?

Question

I've been spending some time looking on newegg, thinking about building a new system. I picked myself out a nice processor, and some ram. but when i looked for a motherboard i ran across a problem common to nearly every company. Now, at this stage of technology, any decent gaming rig will require a graphics card that takes up 2 slots, so why do the high end motherboard manufacturers put the PCI slots right next to the PCIe slots!!! yeah, the mobo has 3 PCI, but 2 of them are covered by the HS on the GPU.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ShowImage.aspx?Image=13-131-071-03.jpg%2c13-131-071-04.jpg%2c13-131-071-05.jpg%2c13-131-071-06.jpg%2c13-131-071-07.jpg%2c13-131-071-08.jpg%2c13-131-071-09.jpg%2c13-131-071-10.jpg%2c13-131-071-11.jpg%2c13-131-071-12.jpg%2c13-131-071-13.jpg&CurImage=13-131-071-07.jpg&Depa=0&Description=ASUS+P5N32-SLI+Premium%2fWiFi-AP+LGA+775+NVIDIA+nForce+590+SLI+ATX+Intel+Motherboard+-+Retail

I don;t really expedct an answer to this rant, i just had to say it.

Answer 1

I think that they believe that a really high-end system with dual video cards (and especially double slot video cards) will be a dedicated gaming rig and will not be using the standard PCI slots.

Of course this is not true and we are now left with one or two empty slots for our TV Tuners and PCI Sound cards. I thought about upgrading to a PCI-Express 1x sound card or tuner - just try and find one!! Maybe next year.

That is always the cost of progress - things are not always backward compatible and new technologies force us to upgrade.

Answer 2

Well actually that board has 3 PCI-E x16, two PCI, and two PCI-E x1. Anyway, to answer your question, there are only seven slots available down there, so simply put some type of slot is going to get blocked by the heatsink.

Answer 3

Companies cater to the larger market segments, where the big bucks can be made.

Gaming computers are a tiny percentage of the total market. .