Unlike EP45C-DS3R, EP45-UD3L has only one PCI Express x16 2.0 slot, so it’s impossible to use SLI or CrossFireX setups. It also has two PCI slots and four PCI Express x1 slots.
Figure 3: Slots.
Pay attention in Figure 3 and you will see serial and parallel ports headers. These ports aren’t present on the motherboard rear panel, however you can buy I/O brackets and install them in order to use these ports.
Let’s take a look at this high-end socket 1155 motherboard from ASRock based on the Intel Z68 chipset.
We took a look at this new high-end socket 775 motherboard from EVGA, based on the new nForce 780i chipset, featuring three PCI Express x16 slots supporting 3-way SLI and other high-end features.
The ASRock N3150B-ITX is an inexpensive and small motherboard with an embedded Celeron N3150 quad-core CPU, bringing legacy serial and parallel ports. Check it out!
Let’s take a look at the most high-end motherboard from ASUS for the Intel socket 1155 platform based on the Intel P67 chipset.
Our review on the most high-end socket 939 motherboard from ECS (i.e. targeted to Athlon 64 and Athlon 64 X2 CPUs), which is based on nForce 4 SLI.
Our review of Foxconn’s WinFast 6100K8MB-RS motherboard, which is a socket 754 motherboard based on GeForce 6100 + nForce 410 chipset with on-board video.