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.

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Er... that's not one motherboard.

[MetaPhyzx]

That's a decieving blurb. I was pretty excited at first. Bad slashdot =)

That's two motherboards, not a board and a processor daughtercard. Reminds me of Apple with the "DOS Compatibility Card". If pretty much EVERYTHING I need for AMD64 is on the "daughtercard" it's a motherboard in itself. Not to mention that the article doesn't say whether or not that card is a buy-in add-on, which it probably is.

So, you'll shell out X for the Intel board, and X for the AMD sub/conversion/daughter-board.

I can see how it's cool technology, but who's gonna adapt this? And how hard would it have been to intergrate and TRULY have one board?