| I wouldn't worry too much about PCI-Express yet. Most full ATX motherboards from Abit, Asus, MSI and Gigabyte (Intel 915P and 925X chipset mobo's) still have 2-3 PCI slots and IMO they will continue to do so in much the same way ISA slots did when PCI was introduced.
Keep in mind also that Abit, Asus, and Gigabyte (probably others too) are making Pentium 4 LGA775 mobo's with the older Intel 865PE chipset which is identical to the Socket 478 counterparts except for the new LGA775 socket, meaning they support Dual DDR400, AGP 8X and have at least 5 PCI slots with obvious other options like Firewire and LAN ect ect.... |