Hybrid AGP/PCI-E Mainboard for 939

[imported_Spectre]

Hello!

I've just ordered an Asus V9999 Ultra Deluxe (GeForce 6800 256MB) in AGP 8x because I figured it would take too long before a PCI-E solution is available.

However, I still want my new computer to have PCI-Express support. I'm ordering an Athlon64 FX-53 (socket 939) soon and I've heard about motherboards that have both an AGP8x slot and PCI-Express slots, but I can't find much information about them.

Does anyone know anything about hybrid AGP/PCI-E solutions for the 939 chipset, or more importantly, when they will be available and from what manufacturer?

I would appreciate any piece of information very much! Thanks in advance!

 

[ereshkigal181]

Most I know is that via is working on a chipset that allows agp and pci-x without bridging the agp from the pci bus. So agp would run at full speed as well as pci-x.

Here are some links

Via

 

[Wahsapa]

i think its called the kt890 or 8kt890 or something like that but its via's upcoming chipset thats suppose to support pci-e/agp/pci all at once. some companys are going to be putting out boards that have pci-e and an agp slot but the agp bus is going to be run off the pci bus so i think it only goes to agp4x but im not sure about that. either way its not coming out soon.

 

[Vette73]

I don't think it even goes to AGP 4x speeds. Yes it will show up as AGP 8X but early revoews say you will lose around 20% of your cards performance by doing that. And if you ethernet, sound card, SATA, etc... are on the PCI bus line I am sure it will only get worse.

So VIA has a good chance to pick up a lot of Intel sales and maybe soem AMD as I have not heard what Nivida is doing yet.