AMD Athlon 64 + PCIe

[Ron Joiner]

My plan is to get an AMD Athlon 64 3500 with an ATI X700 Pro 256 but I
cannot find any 939 motherboards with PCI Express video. Are Abit and
Asus shipping any soon?

Ron

 

[Bob Knowlden]

Abit is producing the AX8 (Via K8T890 chipset). Whether any are actually
available for sale at this time, I don't know. ZipZoomFly lists them as on
backorder.

I believe that Asus plans nForce4 based boards, the A8N line. According to a
news item (http://www.firingsquad.com/news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=7268),
they are supposed to be on the market in time for the holiday season.

If "soon" means before the end of the year, you may have some good choices.

HTH.

Bob Knowlden

 

[JS]

MSI has also announced mobo's w/ PCI-E for Athlon64.