Intel Motherboards (cont’d)
The Asus board utilizing the 925x chipset with both DDR1 and DDR2 support
As I had not yet actually played with the new LGA775 socket from Intel, I took the chance with this Asus board to do so.
Its a fairly straight-forward installation process, but I can see where wear and tear may take place on the processor or socket. This situation will be interesting to see develop.
Abit’s AA8 Motherboard
Abit’s AG8 Motherboard
ULI chipsets had a solution for PCI Express for both the 775-pin and hte 478-pin Pentium processors. Note that they also have AGP support, but I learned that it travels through the south bridge on the chipset effectively running the AGP at 1x speeds. This will probably be a good solution only for non-gaming situations.
Finally, SIS has their 656 chipset with PCIe and AGP support, done similarly to the ULI chispet.
