Re: The long and short of it (quiz)

[John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com>]

At 07:43 PM 1/20/97 PST, Steve Deiss wrote:
>
>Forgot to ask.  Are card lengths between long and short,
>say 'medium,' a) forbidden, b) frowned upon but legal, 
>or c) perfectly acceptable?  The spec leads me to think
>it is either/or.  But my DS Video VRAM card is 6.8" long
>and that is not hurting their sales.

I'd have to say the longer they are, the more likely they are to run into
obstructions...

An earlier Diamond Stealth, the Stealth 64 Graphics VRAM (s3 964) card was
about an inch longer than your Video VRAM (s3 968) and in fact did not fit
in many PCI motherboards such as the Intel Advanced/ZP aka Zappa.

Newer motherboards are getting better about this, and ATX layout
motherboards just about  completely eliminate the obstructed slot problem.

I'm looking at an Intel Endeavor here (Advanced/EV) and noticing that the
COAST cache module would probably get into the way of a longish card in one
PCI slot, ditto, the 4th DRAM SIMM may block another.  These would probably
only effect cards around 9 or 10" long, but I've seen quite a few that length.

-jrp
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