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Alex Watson
Issue 52 is back from the printers now, and should be with subscribers this week, and it’ll be at the newsagents on Thursday. The main cover feature is a big motherboards labs test, and that’s partnered by a feature I wrote which traces the way mobos and their BIOSes are developed. It’s a topic I’ve wanted to investigate for ages - while we run a lot of coverage of how boards are laid out, how they perform and how they overclock, we’ve never really gone behind the scenes and looked at the process and people which produce them. One of the interesting facts I uncovered while researching the feature and talking to the engineers in Taiwan was the cumulative length of all the circuit traces on a modern motherboard, and I thought this would make a good quiz question. Up for grabs to the lucky entrant who gets the answer right and is picked from the virtual hat my inbox is a World in Conflict hoody and CPC t-shirt…
So, what’s the combined length of all the circuit traces on the average modern motherboard (full size ATX)?
A) Just over 200 yards, the length of two football fields.
B) Just under a mile
C) Just over 50 metres, the length of an Olympic swimming pool
Drop me an e-mail with your answer - alex [–at–] custompc [dot] co [dot] uk. Good luck!
Too late to e-mail on this, I’ll bet… esp. as I just did…