Keith E. Whisman

September 02, 2010 at 8:44am

I'm not building another rig or purchasing another computer until all of the SATA ports and 6Gbps and all of the USB ports are USB3 with USB3 headers for the case front IO. And I'm not purchasing a case unitil they have a proper USB3 fully equipped front IO with USB3 wires that utilize a mobo header.

Also I want the ESATA to use the new SATA6Gbps standard as well. And damn it no more PS2 ports, comm ports, and LPT ports. Some manufactures still offer some of these ports on their IO and still some offer cables the run from the mobo and block a PCI slot. Who actually uses those comm ports and actually block PCI slots so you can have it?

Motherboard manufactures can really cut costs and simplify motherboard designs by getting rid of all legacy port support. Just imagine the chips and all of the accompanying traces that just clutter up modern mother boards would be gone, the mother boards would be free to use up more space for other things such as isolating an Audio circuit for bed noise reduction and higher fidelity play back and better over all system performance. With fewer chips and traces on a motherboard, the motherboard can be better designed to produce less heat and noise.

So legacy support in motherboards is really taking away from true innovation and what could be.