Seeing as the new DDR chipsets also support normal SDRAM, are any of the new boards going to have slots for both?

[DABANSHEE]

Yeh, as we all probably know, the new VIA, AMD, ALI, Micron & SIS chipsets that are due out in the near & not so near future, all support both normal SDRAM & DDR-SDRAM.

What I was wondering then is why do none of the new DDR boards (AMD Corona, VIA VT8633, Gigabyte GA-7DX, Iwill KA266-R, Micron Samurai & MSI K7Master-S) have support for normal SDRAM as well as DDR-SDRAM, by providing 2 SDRAM slots & 2 DDR-SDRAM slots.

Sure I understand you probably wouldn't be able to use both the SDRAM slots & the DDR slots at the same time, but it would definitly ease the transition to DDR.

 

[Vegito]

yes, there is a few boards that supports 2, i missed the name but yes, only one at a time, either sd or ddr

 

[DABANSHEE]

Actually I just dicovered this, where a 3rd of the way down the page they mention a Chaintech board that supports both PC133 SDRAM & DDR-SDRAM.

 

[Henry Kuo]

Yes, I believe Chaintech will have a board that support both

That means... stay tune!

 

[TheNeck]

Here is a link for a ddr motherboard that supports sdram(1 slot) and ddr(3 slots).

Transcend APR3 DDR Motherboard

 

[Super6]

The new ALI DDR chipset supports both DDR and PC133. Asus has just anounced their version with slots for both along with all the O/C'ing goodies.

Super6