What's TNG of motherboards?

[theprophecy]

I'm looking to get a RAID board. I'm in no particular hurry as I bought an 8KHA+ a scant few months ago. When that came out, there was a flurry of new KT266A boards, as well as the K7S5A, the P4X266, rampant speculation about nForce, and just a general glut of new boards. My question is: was that a one-timer or will we be seeing another wave again sometime soon? Is there anything visible on the horizon I should wait for, or just go for an existing solution? (For the record, I'm not considering nForce, vapour or no, because I've got a GF3 and an Audigy - no need for it.)

 

[Athlon4all]

Truthfully, I think that we are pretty much at a stand still for the AMD platform. There is really gonna be one more wave of new chipsets coming before Hammer later this year. The main difference for these chipsets is that they support DDR333 which is useless on the Athlon because it's limited by it's fsb. These chipsets are nForce 2, VIA's KT333, and SiS 745. I wouldn't wait for these. They will offer no performance improvement over the current line. Just go pick up a KT266A board and you'll be happy.

 

[Mavrick007]

How well do you think the new Thoroughbred will work on present day athlon mobos?

 

[Athlon4all]

It should, as long as they don't up the fsb to 166, it should work with just a BIOS update.

 

[Mavrick007]

You could always just overclock the fsb even still though right? I know of alot of people's boards that are running over 166fsb now and sailing along. I imagine that you could do that with the new cpu too.