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Computex 2005: Jetway puts Socket 754 and 939 on the same mainboard

by Ryszard Sommefeldt on 3 June 2005, 00:00

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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.

2 socket nForce4

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...

2 socket nForce4

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.

3 slot SLI

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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.



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The PCI-E/AGP combo board interests me, shame I don't know much about Jetway. Not sure if I would be willing to buy a product from them as I have never heard of anyone using their kit, not recently anyway.
I've had three of their boards - one was a replacement for a failed one. We're talking a few years ago, they were VIA KT133, KT133A and KT266 based motherboards. I can't say they impressed me. The KT266 board is still running though, with no stability issues.
Seems that I am right to worry. If the likes Asus, Abit, DFI etc released a combo graphics board I would be very interested. Haven't heard of anything though.
The way I see it, people seem to be having enough fun upgrading graphics and CPU as well as motherboard that they don't see a need for such hybrid boards. I must admit I'm used to upgrading mem/cpu/mobo at the same time.
Tis annoying for me because I only upgraded my graphics just before Xmas and I really wanna hold onto this card for this year at least.