ECS Readies Grantsdale Board That Breaks Every Intel Rule

[KingFish]

ECS is showing an interesting hybrid PCI Express motherboard in Taiwan. The board, based around Intel's Grantsdale chips, is dubbed the 915P-A.

It sports an AGP slot alongside the swanky new PCI Express graphics slot. It also has memory slots for either DDR or DDR2 memory sticks.
Source: The Inquirer (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=16346)

[mmonnin]

In tests, ECS found that while Direct X8 performance may be impacted by around 20 per cent on higher end graphics cards, the performance hit in DirectX 9 games is around five per cent or less.

Man thats a lot of extra work to do on a motherboard.

[GHoosdum]

Holy crap, even!