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AMD / Intel Hybrid Motherboard

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the grand-unification-theory dept.

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?"

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  1. Same as... by axonal · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Same people who put new engines in their VW Bugs. If the rest of the car is still good, then just upgrade the engine to keep up with the times.

  2. Mark? by BrynM · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Despite eveyone talking smack, I can see this being a valuable benchmark board. How well do these CPU/Chipset combos work? How well does this ATI card do with an AMD CPU? Okay now how about an Intel CPU? It's not a new idea to expand the CPU, but doing it across vendors like this is interesting.

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  3. Re:PC Chips will never have my trust by zakezuke · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm not buying anything from PC Chips, ever.

    I bought into PC Chips in the pentium age... under the Matsonic label IIRC. IBM/Cyrix and motherboard for under $100. I had issues with the motherboard catching fire somewhere around the PC speaker circuity. I had to return a few of those boards.

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  4. Better watch for cut corners and check the cache! by cdn-programmer · · Score: 5, Interesting

    As I recall it was PC chips who produced the fake cache on the 486 motherboards. Look here:
    http://www.redhill.net.au/b/b-bad.html "PC Chips fake cache 486"

    I do have an ecs board but it was before the merger. It was stable for years.

    nevertheless - there are reputable manufacturers out their so why would I care about ECS/PC CHIPS?