[Pc_Support] New $73 ASRock 939DUAL-SATA2 has both true AGPx8 and PCIx16 slots ..

[Bryan J. Smith]

Unlike a lot of "hack" mainboards that use ViA or other chipsets and
merely connect the AGP to the shared PCI bus, the ULI M1695 chipset has
both _true_ AGPx8 and PCIe slots:  
  http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2489  

The ASRock 939DUAL-SATA2 at $72 has this combination:  
  http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813157081  

I'm not a huge fan of ALI/ULI chipsets -- although that was largely
based back in the Socket-7 days -- but they have had their moments.
This appears to be one of them.

ASRock also has an older AGP-only design that takes both Socket-754 and
Socket-939 processors, although eats up way too much board real-estate
in doing so, limiting expansion:  
  http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813157035  


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