Are there Socket A mobos w/ PCI EXPRESS 16x???

[trOver]

is there such a thing? on newegg all of them had agp slots...

 

[tcsenter]

Nope.

 

[trOver]

really? do you know why?

 

[najames]

I'd say all of the socket A chipsets were made before the invent of PCI-E. Manufacturers want to sell you new hardware to match new CPUs. It would not pay for them to go back and "reinvent" it because there are not a lot of CPUs left for it now, nor would there be many sales. Does AMD want motherboard companies to make new high quality socket 939 and 754 motherboards? Nope. They want to sell new chips, not let people recycle old ones. That, my friend, is why we have new sockets every year or so.

Economics rule, new hardware + new standards = new sales.

Class over, you are excused.

 

[tcsenter]

Originally posted by: trOver
really? do you know why?

PCI Express chipsets didn't hit the market until well after Socket A was dead, replaced by AMD64.

 

[solas989]

It would be nice to have one, but they do not exist as they said above, the chipsets were developed before PCIe was an official standard to implement.

Solas

 

[trOver]

thanks for the replies, i got it now