Computex 2004 Early Bird Coverage: NV45 in the Flesh, New Chipsets, BTX Boards and more...
by Anand Lal Shimpi on May 31, 2004 12:31 PM EST- Posted in
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ASRock puts Two Sockets on Motherboards
ASRock is displaying an interesting board that caught our eyes; the K8 Combo board features both a Socket-939 and a Socket-754 socket. Astute AnandTech readers will know that Socket-754 Athlon 64s only have one Hyper Transport link and thus cannot support multiple processors, so something must be up. Indeed the K8 Combo isn't a multiprocessor board, rather its a motherboard that can support either a Socket-939 CPU or a Socket-754 CPU, but not both. The flexibility offered by the board is interesting, as it provides a decent upgrade path for current Socket-754 users, granted it may be a bit extreme.
This does not appear to be the only multi socket transition motherboard planned by ASRock; a Socket-775/Socket-478 board is also in the works.
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JGF - Monday, May 31, 2004 - link
Wheee! Love the early stuff but really the meat and potatoes of this computex, at least for me, is going to be the new amd processers and and amd info regarding PCI-E and AMD64 chipsets.Da3dalus - Monday, May 31, 2004 - link
That K8 Combo board is quite interesting. If you'd have a board like that with support for either Socket 939 or 754 CPU, along with support for both AGP 8X and PCI-Express, then that would be really cool for transitioning/upgrading...Not something I'd expect to see anytime soon, but it would be cool :)
mjz5 - Monday, May 31, 2004 - link
just stick with an A64 939 pin CPU, and you'll be happy. Intel == crap!