AMD / Intel Hybrid Motherboard 151
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?"
OS Support? (Score:1, Interesting)
Same as... (Score:4, Interesting)
Mark? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Not me (Score:2, Interesting)
It's more or less a gimmick for penny pincher's who think they got a great deal on an e-machine.
Re:PC Chips will never have my trust (Score:4, Interesting)
I bought into PC Chips in the pentium age... under the Matsonic label IIRC. IBM/Cyrix and motherboard for under $100. I had issues with the motherboard catching fire somewhere around the PC speaker circuity. I had to return a few of those boards.
Interesting but forgot one feature (Score:2, Interesting)
For my purpose, I think, if there was a BIOS flip switch, it would have been worth investment. However there isn't (if I'm wrong on this, correction is welcome), so it's just a fancy board with swappable processor which is fairly easy with any ATX casing with swappable motherboard plane without unscrewing bolts and wire works if such thing exists.
Better watch for cut corners and check the cache! (Score:5, Interesting)
http://www.redhill.net.au/b/b-bad.html [redhill.net.au] "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?
Um... (Score:1, Interesting)
-Psy
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Veiled ad for Creative (Score:3, Interesting)
You'd expect them to cover it up a bit more, sheesh!
Been there, done that,... (Score:3, Interesting)
Worse, putting my economist hat on, the only people that this makes sense for are the manufacturer and a few OEM's that may be crazy enough to go for this design. None of the top OEM's I know of would even consider it. Any who would have poor reputations from what I've been able to discern historically. Someone may surprise me and come up with an economic justification here aside from those two considerations, but I haven't seen it in the threads so far.
Nothing to see here. Move on.