Motherboards in 2002: Preview from Comdex

On the AMD side, ASUS has just released their KT266A solution and they are still working on their nForce based A7N266. There are two version of the board: the A7N266-E and the A7N266. The A7N266-E would be using the MCP-D and will not feature any other sound chips on the board since it'll already have the best on-board sound you can find.

The ASUS A7N266 has the regular MCP and also features an extra 6 channel audio processor on-board

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At the same time, the regular A7N266 uses the basic MCP which has the same audio core as the MCP-D without Dolby Digital encoding support. ASUS is using this as justification to offer an additional C-Media hardware sound chip on the board although we don't necessarily agree with their decision nor do we think it's necessary.

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ASUS also had a 760MPX board on display which should be one of the first to hit the streets later this year.