Legacy free

[bigal40]

i read the legacy free boards run faster than ones with legacy parts?
I am not really clear on what legacy parts are, from what i can tell they are ps/2, serial, and parrelell ports? is that right
and does a legacy free board really have any noticeable performance advatage over a board with legacy parts?

 

[The J]

You are correct when you say it has no PS/2, serial, or parallel ports. I've never used one, so I don't know what the performance difference is.

 

[mikecel79]

The performance difference would be at most 1%. Hardly noticeable.

 

[Zepper]

Abit tried to do those for our market channel a couple of years ago and they went over like a lead balloon... Almost no one has tried to do it since. You can find them in the OEM channel - but generally only the big box pushers uses them where shaving every cent out of cost is 'important'.
.bh.

:moon:

 

[AndyHui]

Legacy depends on the timeframe, really.

If you were to say legacy about 12 months ago, it would have meant all items running on the ISA bus: ISA slots, serial, parallel, PS/2 ports and floppy drives. PCI and AGP are modern systems.

If you were to say legacy in about 12 month's time, then you would mean a PCI Express/SATA system is modern, and all PCI, AGP, parallel IDE items are obsolete.

In terms of performance difference, if all ISA devices are dropped from the system, there really isn't that much performance gain....certainly none which you can feel.