Are There Any Motherboards That Support AMD & Intel

[ascalice]

I am building a PC very soon. However, in order to include a beefed up SSD and Graphics Card, is there a socket that supports an AMD-A10 and an Intel Core i7? I have not seen one that supports the same socket yet. But, is there any?

 

[zir_blazer]

Nope, such a thing does not exist. You usually are limited to Processor choices based on both Socket type and Motherboard specific support (BIOS usually). And also keep in mind that there are four different Sockets/Desktop platforms that had Core i7s on them, not compatible between them.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Not since Socket 7.

 

[Compman55]

Socket 7 were the good old days. Intel peaked with a pentium MMX 233, and AMD peaked at a K63-450, or a K62+550. Nice upgrade over the pentium. Stability was not so great though.

Today, its one or the other. There are so mnay different sockets and chipsets to keep track of.

 

[chucky2]

K63-450+ was the uber AMD socket 7 chip. OCs to 600, more cache than the K62-5xx+ chips.

 

[Lonyo]

Too much engineering required for it to be worthwhile.
There was a motherboard which was more recent than shared sockets which let you plug in an additional semi daughterboard with support for AMD rather than Intel (or the other way round).

http://hexus.net/tech/news/mainboard/1036-cebit-2005-amd-intel-same-motherboard/

As you can see, you need the socket, plus RAM and chipset in order for it to work because of the way memory routes to the CPU.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Too much engineering required for it to be worthwhile.
There was a motherboard which was more recent than shared sockets which let you plug in an additional semi daughterboard with support for AMD rather than Intel (or the other way round).

http://hexus.net/tech/news/mainboard/1036-cebit-2005-amd-intel-same-motherboard/

As you can see, you need the socket, plus RAM and chipset in order for it to work because of the way memory routes to the CPU.

Mind blown.

 

[schmuckley]

Yes! Socket 5-7

 

[SlowSpyder]

I had an Intel DX2 486 66MHz that I swapped out for an AMD K5 133MHz about 17 years ago or so.