AMD Riser Board Pictured

Mathew Everett 27 Feb, 2006 at 10:26am ET Article published in Tech

Asrock has future proofed its AMD motherboards by giving a Future port slot in which you can plug a card to upgrade.

As most of you would probably know, Asrock has future proofed its AMD motherboards by giving a Future port slot in which you can plug a card to upgrade. Well, the card is already out there. It is pictured on a 939SLI2-eSATA2 board from Asrock. It can accommodate up to four DDR2 DIMMs.

Source: The Inquirer

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27 Feb 2006 ~ 10:41am RWB Yo link is broken sir!
27 Feb 2006 ~ 10:54am profdlp

RWB wrote:

Yo link is broken sir!

Worked for me.
27 Feb 2006 ~ 11:12am RWB the link is showing to be http://the inquirer Not even a .com or anything
27 Feb 2006 ~ 11:18am GooD Link is not good, without a doubt
27 Feb 2006 ~ 11:23am profdlp When I click it I end up here:

http://www.hkepc.com/bbs/blog.php?tid=558875&starttime=1140739200&endtime=1140825600

I am not bats!
27 Feb 2006 ~ 11:51am anybody notice that it doesn't look like the new am2 socket? looks kinda like regular old s939 if you ask me. what gives?
27 Feb 2006 ~ 12:06pm muddocktor Link is broken for me too, but then we don't have your 1337 powers too, prof. ;D EDIT: The original link, not the one in your last post.

And to whoever posted right above me, look at the HRM around the socket on the board. It is definitely using the new HRM style mounted with 4 holes instead of 2 holes like the regular A64 HRM. The socket should look almost exactly the same anyways as socket AM2 is a 940 pin socket, just keyed differently than the present socket 940 for server procs.
27 Feb 2006 ~ 12:08pm Sledgehammer70 fixing link ....... linage fixed!
27 Feb 2006 ~ 2:16pm jradmin I just like reading the replies on the messageboard. They are funny...la!
28 Feb 2006 ~ 5:45pm Omega65

wrote:

anybody notice that it doesn't look like the new am2 socket? looks kinda like regular old s939 if you ask me. what gives?

The New Socket AM2 is just the old S940 with the pins rearranged slightly to better accomodate DDR2.
5 Mar 2006 ~ 12:35am danball1976 Is the PCI-X bus fast enough for this thing? And isn't this like those older upgrade cards that were available for older 486 CPU system boards that you could place a AMD K6-2 or Pentium on them?