Nforce3 250GB was the latest and the greatest for 754, which did not incorporate PCI-e. There may very well be some pci-e chipsets developed for 754, but I doubt there will be any 4x/8x slots, as Sempron is transitioning to this platform and it will be more value-based. It will probably be a single 16x slot, and a couple 1x. I haven't heard any solid news about future 754 chipsets though..
AFAIK, nobody is presently making a socket 754 pci-e board at the moment. There is no reason why they can't use the nf4 chipset on a socket 754 system, but I think that the mobo companies concetrated on getting pci-e out for the socket 939 higher end systems first.
I think Epox (or somebody else) is making a NF4 S754 mobo eventually. But dont hold your breath. I think the price of the NF4 chipsets limits them to highend S939/S940 boards for the foreseeable future.
Damn, that's a nice looking mobo, Jimbo. It has both pci-e and agp slots, so Tex can run his pci-e raid card and have decent graphics too with an agp card. That might be a great starting point for my next system I put together.
I think Epox (or somebody else) is making a NF4 S754 mobo eventually. But dont hold your breath. I think the price of the NF4 chipsets limits them to highend S939/S940 boards for the foreseeable future.
940 boards would be great ! I own three s754 cpu's and four s940 cpu's and just didnt want to have to buy another cpu for a socket 939 cpu.
The only qualms I have about that motherboard is the placement of the Sata ports, it looks like if you use a long pci-e graphics card then you may not be able to use at least one of the ports. Also its a very narrow sized atx board like the Abit KV7 & KD7A boards, not that it matters but it may be important to some peeps.
Nice looking board. Just be sure to check out the AGP compatability list as that is a 'riser' port of some sort, and not a true AGP bus. Not all AGP graphics cards will work in there. Most of the midrange geforce cards list as compatable, but top end cards like 6800s, and even 9800 pros are not listed.
Leadtek 6800GT & Msi 6600 are on there. As most nvidia based cards are just clones of the reference Nvidia pcb (Leadtek 6800gt being one of these) I can't see why other cards based on the ref. design would have too much trouble either. Only one way to tell I guess.
At second glance, it looks like they tested primarily MSI cards, so I guess they never made a card with every chipset. I'd be more curious to see what cards do not work on that type of slot, rather than the ones that do
I know a lot of people have been looking for an upgrade transition board, and dont want to throw away their old vga cards, looks like a great idea.
Does anyone know how AGP would function on a board with a chipset that does not support the standard? I wonder if they somehow channel that through the PCI bus..
won't matter to me as I don't own a agp card faster then a radeon 7500. I don't game and my pron seems to look fine on the cheap cards to my old eyes anyway.
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I thought I would have trouble with socket 754 but I thought there would be a bunch of socket 940 boards.
Tex
940 boards would be great ! I own three s754 cpu's and four s940 cpu's and just didnt want to have to buy another cpu for a socket 939 cpu.
I know a lot of people have been looking for an upgrade transition board, and dont want to throw away their old vga cards, looks like a great idea.
Does anyone know how AGP would function on a board with a chipset that does not support the standard? I wonder if they somehow channel that through the PCI bus..
Tex