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AMD and Intel CPUs Supported On Same Motherboard
Kez writes "We haven't seen AMD and Intel CPUs since Socket 7, but ECS have created a motherboard sporting both Intel LGA775 and AMD 939 sockets. An Intel chip will sit in the board itself, whereas an AMD chip can be used through a daughterboard. HEXUS.net has the scoop from CeBIT." While this is pretty slick, I do wonder who is actually gonna buy this board in place of their usual favorite, since it's not like people are swapping their processors around every chance they get, unless they don't actually use the computer they've built.
"I do wonder who is actually gonna buy this board in place of their usual favorite, since it's not like people are swapping their processors around every chance they get, unless they don't actually use the computer they've built."
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Here, wait while I change CPU's... okay, that's better.
With the AMD, this would have been mod'ed -1, but with the Intel, it's only -0.9999999998.
What the parent says. It's a nice idea, but it's probably not worth implementing. Just how is an operating system supposed to know which task should be executed on which CPU? Should processed have a "heavy FPU dependency" or "integer madness" flag? Should it do some nifty statistics?
>why didn't they just cut the MB in half and support the Intel proc the same way they do the AMD one?
Ah yes, the King Solomon solution!
I wonder what happens if you try to use both sockets at once...
or it will all be uddnerly irrelevant
I thought Intel and AMD were compatible? You need separate boards for them? Suddenly, the screams of "Macs use proprietary hardware" make less sense.
"Integer Madness" That's going into my vocabulary. Not sure when I'd use it, but...
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