Abit and the 850E

[SteelCityFan]

In a recent Tom's Hardware article, he mentioned that only 3 Motherboard makers are going to offer the 850E since they don't see it as being as profitable as the DDR solution... Abit is not one of the 3.

I have also heard that the initial 850E boards will not support PC1066 at first either... just the new FSB.

Is this true regarding Abit? And if so, does it then make it more likely to see Abit's TH7II board coming out with a Bios adding "support" for the 533Mhz FSB P4's? ... (just maybe not the PC1066 RDRAM). From everything I have read about this board, not everyone can get the ram to run at PC1066 due to the Ram controller chip (forget the name), but the board will easily run a 533 system bus as long as the chip can take it.

I am dying for an upgrade, but don't want to wait for the 533Mhz FSB 850E boards, and I really like the Abit TH7II over everything else on the market.

 

[SteelCityFan]

No one has any facts? Anyone with an opinion?.. lol

 

[FishTankX]

Intel would kill Abit. It'd never happen. Intel would have a fit.

 

[Athlon4all]

Well, first off 850e will have PC1066 support. In order to prevent PC1066 support, Intel would need to strip boards of the 4x RDRAM-fsb multiplier which would make PC800 operation at 400fsb impossible. Second off, well I dunno about the abit. We'll see. Third, I know of one board that has PC1066 support. Asus P4T-1066 (or P4T533, I've heard both of these names given to the same board). This board will use the new 32-bit RIMM's so you don't need to install in pairs, and from what I hear, these boards will ship with 32-bit RDRAM as well.