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More info?)
There appears to be a problem with the A8V-E (K8T890, PCI Express chipset)
that prevents X2 support, even though it's newer than the A8V's K8T800Pro.
(As for DDR support, all Socket 939 A64s only support DDR rather than DDR2.
The memory controller is integrated with the CPU, so there is no choice. I
can't regard that as a real disadvantage at this time.)
I have not ordered an X2 CPU for my A8V Deluxe. The prices I've seen
(www.monarchcomputer.com) are high enough to be discouraging. I need to be
persuaded that I'd see a gain over my Newcastle 3500+, which I run at 11X220
MHz.
"Ed" <spam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 13:06:40 -0500, Ed <spam@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 21:23:21 -0400, "Bob Knowlden" <nkbob@comcast.net>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>I know of one example: the Asus A8V Deluxe mainboard is supposed to
>>>support
>>>the X2 CPUs with BIOS 1013 or later. (That's new; the absolute latest is
>>>1014 beta 001.)
>>
>>I may have read it wrong but I thought VIA chipsets currently don't
>>support the X2 chips and VIA has an updated chipset for X2 support?
>>
>>Ed
>
> OK I finally got into the Asus site and they do show the A8V as
> supporting X2 chips + AGP and DDRI support. Thanks, I'll have to see if
> Crucial.com matches up that board with my ram now I guess.
> Thanks. Ed
>
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