The EFA Discovery ZX
EFA

Design:

The design of the board is like most other AT boards, the memory slots at the top of the board and the socket positioned bottom right. Another thing that most AT boards has in common is that the COM, LPT and diskdrive cables sit so thight together that it's hard to put them in place, this board is no exeption.

As you can see the board has a 3/4/1 slot-setup (ie 3 ISA, 4 PCI and 1 AGP slots) which I find to be a pretty good setup. Even if ABITs solution might be a little bit better where they put an extra PCI slot for cards that doesn't need a bus master signal. But because this is a AT card I see it as an upgrade card for people that don't want to throw an extra 100$ for an ATX case. Then it might be good with 3 ISA slots instead of 2.

As you also can see the board only has 2 DIMM sockets which might not be a very good setup. But because the ZX chipset only supports 4 memory rows (2 double-sided DIMMs) and 256 MEG RAM you don't need more than 2 sockets. As I said before I see this card as an upgrade card and therefore 2 DIMM sockets is quite enough.

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