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VIA PT890 and PCI Express
What you are seeing (see attachment) is a picture of a static demo reference motherboard from VIA sporting their PT890 chipset. It supports the Pentium 4 processors, PCI Express, & AGP. Sources in Taiwan explain to us that the new Alderwood and Grantsdale chipsets from Intel will support AGP and PCI Express also, but the luxury of supporting both will not be allowed. This puts VIA in a very advantageous position of being able to supply motherboards to the enthusiast with a much easier upgrade path to those that do not want to purchase a new videocard.
The longer black connector above a PCI Express X16 slot and the one just under it is an X4 connector. Of course directly above the X16 PCI Express slot is our traditional AGP4X/8X slot that is soon to be a legacy technology. The PT890 will be announced at CeBIT in March.
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VIA PT890 and PCI Express
What you are seeing below is a picture of a static demo reference motherboard from VIA sporting their PT890 chipset. It supports the Pentium 4 processors, PCI Express, & AGP. Sources in Taiwan explain to us that the new Alderwood and Grantsdale chipsets from Intel will support AGP and PCI Express also, but the luxury of supporting both will not be allowed. This puts VIA in a very advantageous position of being able to supply motherboards to the enthusiast with a much easier upgrade path to those that do not want to purchase a new videocard.
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The longer black connector above a PCI Express X16 slot and the one just under it is an X4 connector. Of course directly above the X16 PCI Express slot is our traditional AGP4X/8X slot that is soon to be a legacy technology. The PT890 will be announced at CeBIT in March.
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