The modular power supply - YES. Thinking about converting mine just out of stubbornness.
Why are we still using big molex plugs anyway? We've had those tiny ones which, personally, I've never been able to use other than on my floppy drive. Surely it's not a power draw issue? If nothing else have the 4 wires molded together.
Ditch serial and parallel ports. If someone wants them let them buy the card, we're past the majority still using point, or should be. If they must have a floppy, same deal, or get a USB floppy or something.
Here's one - new socket design for attachment of heatsinks. Seen too many posts about people having the lugs break off lately. Bigger lugs please.
Leave the built in audio, but have the ports detachable from MB - with a standard part. Not a big deal, more of a clutter thing. Heck, maybe do that with the serial/pp. Everyone happy, I'm mostly just tired of looking at them.
All soundcards should have an accessory plug for attachment to front panel controls.
All videocards with TV in out/S-video should have same.
Motherboards - what is a motherboard anyway? Place to plug stuff in. So why can't we have socketed chipsets? Yeah, I realize you couldn't plug a BX into a KT133, but you could upgrade your KT133 to a KT133A, yes? And that's just an example with what's here...iNTEL and AMD shared a CPU socket for years, why not chipsets? If they had been socketed then maybe you could have swapped an LX for a BX for a...
Sure wish the ram on videocards was socketed
Built in video - Anyone like the Voodoo2 days? Keep your favorite 2D card, get your 3D too. Well, there was some upside to that. Kinda wish 3D cards were seperate, but not tied together through an external adapter of course.
Ok, how about this, a socketed 3D chip. Nvidea/ATI/whoever has to make their card work with a standard AGP port, why not a standard socket? There we go, a standard socket on your video card, want a Radeon2, but don't want to give up your TIVO features? Get a new chip. And replace the socketed ram. Well no manufacturer will go for that one!
What's the downside of AMD/iNTEL putting a nice copper slug over the flipchip so we have a bigger contact area and safer core? Ok, mostly AMD. Other than the 2bux it'd drive up prices?
"CPU throttle" Not just the CPU, but it and the video, whatever else produces heat with speed. Along with temp controlled fans, nice..clock down to 100mhz while you're downloading overnight or reading this, go half throttle while watching a DVD, time for a game, crank it. Could have the chip do it itself based on load, but I like manual adjustments - via front panel knob or software adjustment. A manual override in bios to set it full throttle all the time would suffice for those worried about losing performance.
The whole X86 platform, well...
But most importantly....
Get rid of that damn case badge indent on cases! If you want a badge, fine, it will just sit a mm higher.
--Mc