Anyone know when the dual AGP8X/PCIE by VIA come out?

[Rob94hawk]

I just got my CPU mag in today and I was reading about VIA's mobo that sports AGP8x and PCI express. Sounds great for long term upgrading!

Any info on this?

 

[Vette73]

Not sure, but it was BUILT with the design to have BOTH AGP and PCIe.

ECS has a AGP and PCIe Intel 915 chipset board, BUT have said you will lose anywhere from 5-20% of performance using the AGP port as the 915 chipset does not TRUELLY support AGP.

So it looks like VIA may have a upper hand on the next chipset when the new P4 chips come out.

 

[Rob94hawk]

Hey! Wasn't there an article here on the anandtech home page a couple of hours ago about Gigabyte pulling their dual AGP/PCIE from their display?!?!

 

[Vette73]

Yea, but ECS told peopel what they were dosing and fromt eh sound sof it I was in line that ANY (915 - 925) NEW intel 775 P4 chipset will not TRUELLY support AGP.

So VIA might be able to get some new customers real fast when the 775 chipset comes out.