Jetway puts Socket 754 and 939 on the same mainboard
Jetway puts Socket 754 and 939 on the same mainboard
Jetway, seemingly dormant in the U.K. after some unspectacular last round marketing, have some mainboards on show at Computex that give the impression that the company are giving their engineers free reign to show off. Let me show you what I mean.
The 939GT-Dual-P is an nForce4 Ultra mainboard that lets you use either a Socket 754 or Socket 939 Athlon 64. While something like the ECS PF88 can do much the same with its SIMA add-in cards, the Jetway mainboard does away with plug-in hardware in favour of straight wired-up sockets.
Aimed at the upgrader, of course, Jetway assure me it's a full production mainboard that'll see retail sales. Maybe not in the U.K. though...
Secondly, they're showing off a ULi-powered mainboard for Socket 939 Athlon 64 that contains PCI Express and AGP8X slots for graphics boards (although not at the same time, it seems). The A695DAS is another board for the upgrader.
Last of all, literally, since this is my last story from Computex 2005, they've got a pair of SLI mainboards for Athlon 64 and Pentium 4 that do away with SLI switches by giving you three PEG16X slots. Using SLI? Populate the outer slots. Not bothering? Use the inner one. Really easy and saves faffing around, with only one wasted I/O space if you don't use SLI.
Here's hoping Jetway letting their engineers show off their skill is a sign of good things to come. Witness what it's done for other creative mainboard companies like DFI and ECS, in recent months.
