Any Socket A motherboards with PCI-X slots?

As subject, I'm wondering what the choice is when it comes to choosing
a motherboard with PCI-X. Preferably AMD nforce2, AGP 8X and
integrated sound/lan.

Paul Hanlon wrote:
As subject, I'm wondering what the choice is when it comes to choosing
a motherboard with PCI-X. Preferably AMD nforce2, AGP 8X and
integrated sound/lan.

My understanding is that NForce and NForce2 do not support
PCI-X.

I don't think you'll have much luck finding PCI-X except
perhaps on the dualies - and all of the Socket A dualies
use AMD chipsets.

NForce3 supports PCI-X, but that would mean moving from
Socket A to Socket 940. Even then, I don't recall seeing
PCI-X on any Opteron boards except dualies - and most, if
not all, of the dualies use the AMD chipset. The Tyan
S2885 is one nice piece of kit.


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On 15 Nov 2003 08:33:15 -0800, (Paul Hanlon) wrote:

As subject, I'm wondering what the choice is when it comes to choosing
a motherboard with PCI-X. Preferably AMD nforce2, AGP 8X and
integrated sound/lan.

You might want to be a bit cautious wrt investing in PCI-X devices at this
point. If expenses are being tightly managed, I'd slog along with what I was
driving for a little while longer.

PCI Express isn't far down the road, there are PCI Express chipsets already on
engineering demo boards today, there are engineering demo PCI Express option
cards today, heck there's already a plug-fest scheduled for December.

http://www.pcisig.com/news_room/news...s/2003_09_16b/

My swag is you'll see platforms on sale by Q3 CY04.

/daytripper

On 15 Nov 2003 08:33:15 -0800, (Paul Hanlon)
wrote:
As subject, I'm wondering what the choice is when it comes to choosing
a motherboard with PCI-X. Preferably AMD nforce2, AGP 8X and
integrated sound/lan.

In a word, no. There are no chipsets currently available for socket A
that support PCI-X. If you want PCI-X now, you can find some very
rare P4 setups (Tyan has one, but I think they're the only ones), a
Xeon system or an Opteron system (or a PowerMac G5 : ).

As Daytripper mentioned, PCI-X might be a bit of a sketchy proposition
right now.

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You might want to be a bit cautious wrt investing in PCI-X devices at this
point. If expenses are being tightly managed, I'd slog along with what I
was
driving for a little while longer.

I was told just the other week, that you can always buy a new motherboard
and peripherals and re-install your operating system, it's not a big deal.
And I thought I'd want to hold until Prescott and PCI Express launch, and
ATI or nVidia have graphics boards available for PCI Express.

But I was corrected: better buy AGP 8X based system now, and throw it away
few months later and start over. Upgrading to the cutting-edge, latest
processor should be the priority, not the thought that you might want to
stick with the same machine again for a few years (that's for idiots,
apparently, to use older than 4 month system).

Hope this helps in deciding.

wogston wrote:
:: You might want to be a bit cautious wrt investing in PCI-X devices
:: at this point. If expenses are being tightly managed, I'd slog along
:: with what I was driving for a little while longer.
:
: I was told just the other week, that you can always buy a new
: motherboard and peripherals and re-install your operating system,
: it's not a big deal. And I thought I'd want to hold until Prescott
: and PCI Express launch, and ATI or nVidia have graphics boards
: available for PCI Express.
:
: But I was corrected: better buy AGP 8X based system now, and throw it
: away few months later and start over. Upgrading to the cutting-edge,
: latest processor should be the priority, not the thought that you
: might want to stick with the same machine again for a few years
: (that's for idiots, apparently, to use older than 4 month system).
:

FOAD, troll.

J.

FOAD, troll.

Thank you very much, but when I was told the above gems of wisdom, where
were you then? Seems your guard was let down for a moment there Ranger.

wogston wrote:
:: FOAD, troll.
:
: Thank you very much, but when I was told the above gems of wisdom,
: where were you then? Seems your guard was let down for a moment there
: Ranger.

Listen up you Polish sausage. You're a troll and a half-wit. Why don't
you go home to Mommy now, and watch her take a bath as you stroke your
favorite friend....loser.

J.

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Listen up you Polish sausage. You're a troll and a half-wit. Why don't
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I'm not Polish but thanks for the good guess. I am a troll, correct, thanks
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On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 08:39:23 +0200, "wogston"
wrote:

But I was corrected: better buy AGP 8X based system now, and throw it away
few months later and start over. Upgrading to the cutting-edge, latest
processor should be the priority, not the thought that you might want to
stick with the same machine again for a few years (that's for idiots,
apparently, to use older than 4 month system).

You do seem to have an irrational attraction to PCI-X. To 99.999% of
the world, this feature is NOT worth waiting for, at this point in
time.