Fall 2004 Motherboard Preview: A Sea of New
by Wesley Fink on June 4, 2004 12:00 PM EST- Posted in
- Motherboards
DDR2 and DDR on the Same Board
The upcoming Intel 915 chipset supports both DDR and DDR2 memory. As Intel's new mainstream board for Socket 775 Prescott, we saw Grantsdale with regular DDR memory from most board makers, although a few did have DDR2 versions of 915. As you saw in our Computex preview, Gigabyte covered all bases with several boards offering both DDRand DDR2 on the same board. We were surprised to see a similar solution at Asus.
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As you can see, the Asus P5GDC-V Deluxe offers slots for either DDR2 or DDR on the same board with the excellent new Intel integrated graphics. Asus is large enough to cover all the bases, with 915 versions with DDR2, DDR, and the option for either.
With majors like Gigabyte and Asus offering boards with both types of memory slots, we suspect that you will see this option on many shipping 915 boards. The enthusiast version 925X only supports DDR2, and that's all we saw on the few 925X boards on display at Computex.
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Wesley Fink - Friday, June 4, 2004 - link
#1 -Based on what we now know we expect the new graphics integrated in 915 will be the best performing integrated graphics we have tested. We are told performance is roughly equivalent to 5200FX. That will not excite many of our readers, but it is still a fact that 60% of motherboard shipments are integrated graphics.
Cygni - Friday, June 4, 2004 - link
Depressing is when you see the performance "gain" PCI-E 16x was supposed to offer in real life. Hint: Its not there.JGF - Friday, June 4, 2004 - link
September at the earliest for A64 nvidia PCI-E is more than a little depressing. :(Bozo Galora - Friday, June 4, 2004 - link
http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=858&s=2Speaking of 4 phase power...
Is that 5 phase power on the shuttle board?
RyanVM - Friday, June 4, 2004 - link
On page 3: "As we reported, PCI-X and AGP on the same 915 board is supposedly an impossible engineering feat."PCI-E!!!!!!!!!
jrphoenix - Friday, June 4, 2004 - link
Good to see all the news on the Athlon 939 boards and PCI-Express. Does anyone have an idea when we will see these boards? It was kind of depressing hearing that Nvidia may not support this until Q3 or Q4 :(Heck... when will we see any socket 939 boards?
SDA - Friday, June 4, 2004 - link
"A Sea of NEW"?Hm. Problem with an A64 with decently powerful integrated graphics is that the A64's so expensive that I don't see much of a need for it. .. ehm, but OEMs would like that, I'm sure. Save them money on cheapo add-in cards, for sure, and they could still advertise "64-bit power!"
DDR2 and DDR1 on the same board, eh. What, is the yellow slot DDR2? What the hell? I thought the purpose of a key was to make it HARDER TO STICK THINGS IN THE WRONG WAY? It's practically in the fscking middle! Rrrrr. And I thought DDR1 was bad. Also, "Intel's excellent new integrated graphics"? Excellent must be a relative term.
Also, Tyan now has nine Opteron boards. On one hand, that's an amusingly diverse selection.. on the other hand, it's great that there are so many choices there, and Tyan boards ARE quality.