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June 2, 2005, 04:17 PM
Board allows you to switch between Intel's Pentium processors and AMD's Athlon 64 and Turion chips.
So how does this work?
At first glance the board doesn't appear too different from other motherboards on display. There's a socket for an Intel Pentium 4 processor on the main board and the usual slots for memory and expansion cards. But there are two PCI Express graphics card slots and a third slot, which looks almost identical to the other two, but it has a different purpose. There are also two sockets for BIOS (basic input output system) chips.
When used with an Intel Pentium 4, things are fairly straightforward. The processor goes into its socket on the board and the memory and graphics cards go into their respective slots and you're more or less in business.
Story - ECS Shows Dual Intel, AMD Motherboard (http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,121106,00.asp)
So how does this work?
At first glance the board doesn't appear too different from other motherboards on display. There's a socket for an Intel Pentium 4 processor on the main board and the usual slots for memory and expansion cards. But there are two PCI Express graphics card slots and a third slot, which looks almost identical to the other two, but it has a different purpose. There are also two sockets for BIOS (basic input output system) chips.
When used with an Intel Pentium 4, things are fairly straightforward. The processor goes into its socket on the board and the memory and graphics cards go into their respective slots and you're more or less in business.
Story - ECS Shows Dual Intel, AMD Motherboard (http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,121106,00.asp)