ECS reveals Intel AND AMD mainboard

[Skiz]

I found this quite interesting. It was new to me for sure. Is this the future of motherboards?

HEXUS brings you the ECS PF88, the first mainboard to support both Intel P4 AND AMD Athlon 64 processors.

The possibilities this opens up are enormous and with plenty of features on-board, ECS are confident they have every hardware need covered for the next two years.

The mainboard itself features an SiS965 Southbridge and SiS656 Northbridge for full Intel P4 1066 FSB support on the Intel LGA775 platform. What makes this board special is that by using a converter card you can slot in your AMD 939 Athlon 64 chip and have that running on the board instead. The converter features a SiS756 chipset to utilise the AMD K8 architecture, and is so new, it has no name, not even a codename at the time of writing.

The mainboard has 4 slots for DDR2 667, a 1066FSB, SATA2, GigaLAN and 1394a Firewire. When in place, the SiS965 Southbridge is shared with the converter card which is based around AMD socket 939. The card has it’s own dedicated SiS756 Northbridge, 2 slots of DDR400, power management circuits and a FSB2000T. These are all needed to run the AMD K8 technology.

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: Manufacturers site - ECS

[fkdup74]

old news

and besides, if I remember correctly, ECS makes some pishy mobos
at least I've never had a good experience with one.....

[Spicker]

ECS?

[Virtualbody1234]

ECS has made some good boards but only a select few of their whole line.

[peat moss]

ECS has made some good boards but only a select few of their whole line.

Did n't they start out as a chip maker ? Good idea tho if Asus or the like followed suite .

[clocker]

I don't see the point myself.
Under what circumstance would it be necessary to switch from AMD to Intel in the same machine?

[bigdawgfoxx]

I don't see the point myself.
Under what circumstance would it be necessary to switch from AMD to Intel in the same machine?

Agreed

[Virtualbody1234]

I don't see the point myself.
Under what circumstance would it be necessary to switch from AMD to Intel in the same machine?

Since when is "necessary" a deciding factor for clocker?

[clocker]

Since when is "necessary" a deciding factor for clocker?

Never.
Allow me to rephrase.

Under what circumstance would it be beneficial to change from AMD to Intel in the same machine?

This reminds me of the old AmphiCar.
Yes, it would drive on the road and yes, it would float on water, but it was pretty crap at either.

[lynx]

Since when is "necessary" a deciding factor for clocker?

Never.
Allow me to rephrase.

Under what circumstance would it be beneficial to change from AMD to Intel in the same machine?

This reminds me of the old AmphiCar.
Yes, it would drive on the road and yes, it would float on water, but it was pretty crap at either.

Even more importantly:

Under what circumstance would it be beneficial to change from AMD to Intel?