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AMD / Intel Hybrid Motherboard
batgirl writes "ECS has taken advantage of their recent merger with PC Chips and released an interesting take on motherboards. Using the highly portable SiS chipsets, they were able to create a motherboard that supports all kinds of processors across all platforms. The PF88 starts as an Intel socket 775 motherboard, but different expansion cards can be purchased to add support for everything from a Socket 939 Athlon64 to a Socket 479 Pentium-M. The price is right, and performance is as good as can be expected. But how many people would make use of this?"
Can I drive it in carpool lanes though?
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Forget that it can handle all those processors. Look at all the pretty colors.
Maybe it was built by unicorns....
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SiS, PCChips, and ECS! With those three heavyweights, what could go wrong?
Have you talked to both of them??
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AFAIK, only one of them has had to replace the factory-original rubber band.
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I have to agree here. I had the misfortune of attempting to buy an Athlon motherboard from them, and I had 7 DOA before I got a working model.
:)
Still, when the motherboard did work, it didn't break until at least 3 weeks after the purchase date, so I guess it's not TOO bad.
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Darn, and I was hoping I could have both CPUs at the same time and call it a Pentathlon. :-)
Support Apple G5 processors ? And both G5 and Intel or AMD on the same board ? And i could by hitting a switch tranfer to my Mac and Whatever :P ... that would be yumm.. and and and...
Now their motherboards can suck twice as much as before.
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