And Now A Gigabyte Dual Athlon

[Bozo Galora]

link

 

[fitzhue]

pretty sweet lookin board...

 

[sparks]

That's the board for me (so far), the integrated ethernet is a godsend...saves a PCI slot.

 

[John]

I saw it in person last week in San Antonio, looked interesting.

 

[Pariah]

"saves a PCI slot"

Quite important when you consider there are only 3 usable PCI slots for most configurations. Makes more sense to have 5 or 6 PCI slots and no ethernet than 3 with ethernet.

 

[Sugadaddy]

Hey baby, can I buy you a drink?

 

[Sugadaddy]

<< "saves a PCI slot"

Quite important when you consider there are only 3 usable PCI slots for most configurations. Makes more sense to have 5 or 6 PCI slots and no ethernet than 3 with ethernet. >>




I know, and the boards would cost less that way, but I haven't seen any with more than 3 regular PCI slots. In my case, it doesn't really matter since the only PCI card besides my NIC is the sound card, so I'd still have 2 free slots.

 

[Pabster]

huh? I've filled each slot in my Tyan duallie boards without issue. There are more than 3 "useable" slots, for certain. 760MPX boards will be a different story though -- the 64-bit slots are 66MHz and keyed for 66MHz cards only -- so you won't be able to use a 32-bit card with them. That's a disadvantage in some scenarios. Also, while it was claimed 760MPX would support regular unbuffered DIMMs, I see the ASUS duallie only allows that to 2GB. To go over 2GB, you need Registered modules. I'm wondering if that will be the scenario with all the 760MPX-based boards.

 

[MrHelpful]

Well, that IS the point of registered memory - so you can access more.

 

[Sugadaddy]

<< huh? I've filled each slot in my Tyan duallie boards without issue. There are more than 3 "useable" slots, for certain. 760MPX boards will be a different story though -- the 64-bit slots are 66MHz and keyed for 66MHz cards only -- so you won't be able to use a 32-bit card with them. That's a disadvantage in some scenarios. Also, while it was claimed 760MPX would support regular unbuffered DIMMs, I see the ASUS duallie only allows that to 2GB. To go over 2GB, you need Registered modules. I'm wondering if that will be the scenario with all the 760MPX-based boards. >>




Click on the link, it's a MPX board, and it says it supports regular PC2100, but you can only use 2 dimms. If you want to fill up all the dimm slots, you need registered.