What's a cnr slot?

i have only known CNR to be used for 56k modems. my boss has a few CNRs and some other kind of modems lying around the shop. aside from modems, i have no idea what else theyre for.
 
TSS Modder said:
i have only known CNR to be used for 56k modems. my boss has a few CNRs and some other kind of modems lying around the shop. aside from modems, i have no idea what else theyre for.
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yea thats what I was going to say pretty much. They are used for some kind of network card or something I think. I think they are mainly found on server boards. Maybe you should try asking the same question in the multiprocessing forum or do a quick google on it
 
Sorry, i thought they had to do with video cards because... well....... simply put: im a noob :p

I just assumed because they were with agp+pci that it was possibly a really old model or something(it is a REALLY bad mobo ;))
 
it's just like an AMR slot, used for modems and sound card risers, most of which come bundled with the motherboard
 
if your looking for a mobo wih a CNR slot ill sell you my MSI K7N2 Delta-L (much better than that) for $50 shipped.

but i know your not so yea....


modems are all its used for really....and you have PCI slots for that so...whats the point of still using CNR slots?
 
lol, i encountered an amr modem once...and being a more modern computer guy, didnt recognize it at all....it was really fun to try to find the drivers for a modem that didnt have a name, and a computer brand that i never even heard of...very..interesting.
 
AMR and CNR are slots which are found on many mainboards, and used by pretty much nobody.

In essence, they were an attempt to allow for 'software' modems, soundcards, NICs, etc. to be added to a system, in a manner akin to onboard devices, in the sense that they would be inexpensive, because most of the processing would be done by the system's CPU.

Suffice it to say that soundcards and (win)modems don't come much cheaper than $5 for a PCI one, and most mainboards already have onboard NICs.
 
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