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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. Not me by fuzzy12345 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I generally find that by the time upgrading the CPU is cost effective, a new motherboard makes sense as part of the package. YMMV

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  2. Re:Not me; Oh but it is by wondafucka · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I generally find that by the time upgrading the CPU is cost effective, a new motherboard makes sense as part of the package. YMMV
    If this company has done it's job right, this should reduce the overall cost of the board. If vendors have to keep fewer types of boards around then they are buying fewer types, giving them a price break. By having one mainboard that is common to all daughterboards, the total cost of delivering the motherboard is cheaper (one hopes).
    My two cents.

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  3. PC Chips will never have my trust by Mancat · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm not buying anything from PC Chips, ever. Anyone else remember when they were making 486 boards with fake L2 cache? Yes, FAKE CACHE. The cache chips were empty, and the board had a modified BIOS that reported whatever cache size the motherboard was jumpered for.

    Screw this company, even if it has somehow evolved.

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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?