VIA PT880 Pro A Mobo that supports AGP and PCI-e

[ddviper]

WOW! Just read this article on Tom's.

http://www.tomshardware.com/mo...rd/20050131/index.html

for those who r lazy, VIA has introduced their new chipset that will allow PCI-e and AGP to be able to be used on one mobo. it could allow for ddr1 in one channel and ddr2 for the other. This is Intel only, but hopefully an A64 chipset maker will catch on and do the same, but its definatly nice. if this catches on to the A64 mobo's, itll be great for ppl like me who have spent a bunch of cash on an agp card, but still want the possible upgradability for a pci-e mobo, w/o having to buy a CPU, GFX card, and a mobo.

what do u guys think of this?

 

[ddviper]

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[Chinoman]

Nice flexibility.

 

[ddviper]

think this will come to A64's anytime soon?

 

[ddviper]

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[SunSamurai]

revolutionary is too strong a word. how about 'neat' .. "nice" was already taken.

 

[ddviper]

ok, i guess it is a little too strong, fixed 🙂

 

[Peter]

The building blocks to do that on AMD64 are already there. Remember we have HyperTransport there, chipset components can be mixed and matched as you please.

Take any PCIE enabled chipset, pair with an AMD 8151 HTT-AGP tunnel, done. Or the other way round, take any old AGP chipset, pair with a ULi M1695 HTT-PCIE tunnel, done. You could even have two or more of the latter to add as many PCIE-16x slots as you please, not just two.

 

[ddviper]

do u think companies like gigabyte and Msi will do this?

 

[ddviper]

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