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Dual SocketA Boards (0 Comments) (link)
Monday, 11-June-2001 23:48:13 (GMT +10) - by Agg

The first thing from VooDoo are some shots fresh from the AMD NDA room. These are of upcoming dual socketA boards. Pics are not huge, but click to enlarge:

Abit KP20 and GigaByte GA-7DXDW

MSI MS-6502

VooDoo: The MSI is due out in the next 3-4 weeks as this is the final revision before the release. The other 2 mobo’s are still in early reference design. The Tyan is the official reference and has had working models for 3 months. Note the Abit and GigaByte boards are almost identical. The green connectors at top left of these two boards are for diagnostic purposes and won't appear on the retail boards.

The thing that strikes me about all these boards is that they're clearly NOT meant for servers. No onboard SCSI, no onboard LAN, no onboard video - looks like the MSI has a Promise ATA-100 controller onboard, but it also has onboard sound. :) Factor in the rumours that Durons work in SMP and we will hopefully see cheap, fast SMP systems very soon.

For a detailed look at a dual aocketA board, check out our world-first detailed preview - with benchmarks - of the Tyan Thunder AMD760MP with 2x 1.2GHz Palomino CPU's onboard.

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