ECS demos Socket 939 board with AGP and PCI-E, and the other SIMA cards for the PF88
ECS demos Socket 939 board with AGP and PCI-E, and the other SIMA cards for the PF88
ECS, in the middle of a big revival right now with their mainboard business as they create some fine mainboards and show off some serious engineering talent, are demonstrating more of that engineering prowess with a hybrid AGP and PCI Express board based on a VIA chipset, along with the other SIMA expansion boards that the PF88 can accept.
If you remember the PF88, it's the Pentium 4 board that could be morphed into Socket 939 Athlon 64 using an add-in card. ECS are showing off the Pentium-M (Socket 479) and AMD Socket 754 add-in cards, here at Computechs.
Firstly though, their K8T890 mainboard takes VIA's chipset of the same name to create a board perfect for the upgrader, with PCI Express and AGP8X slots. It's AGP Express, where ECS bond a pair of PCI slots from the southbridge to create an AGP electrical slot but one which doesn't implement the full AGP spec and command sete, but it works well enough.
The other two SIMA boards for the PF88 are on show too. All use SiS chipsets to provide the functionality each needs. The Pentium-M SIMA board is a slightly odd one, given the market ECS are pitching the PF88 into, but its nice to see it show up.
The ECS revolution continues apace, eh?
