what does it mean

[umala]

I saw a mainboard with an expansion slot that said:

ASRock Future CPU Port (Yellow-colored):
Flexible Socket939 upgrade interface for ASRock
939CPU Board
Can anyone tell me what those words mean. Does it mean that somehow later I can use 939 CPU on that board also.

Thanks

 

[fishmahn]

A link to what you saw would have made it easier...

ASRock appears to have come out with a socket 754 mobo, <A HREF="http://www.asrock.com/product/product_k8upgrade-760gx.htm" target="_new">K8Upgrade-760GX</A>, that allows you to buy a daughtercard to stick into the yellow slot. The daughtercard has a 939 socket and 4 dimm slots so you can upgrade to a dual channel 939 CPU later.

Sounds like something just ASRock is doing - or at least it's a proprietary upgrade solution.

Seems like a waste - 939 cpus are hardly more expensive than 754 cpus, and they perform better too... So you pay a few $ more for a 939 mobo now, or you pay (probably more than) a few $ more for a daughtercard later.

Mike.

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by fishmahn on 11/24/04 09:06 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

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[fishmahn]

gah - had the cmd wrong... that's what I get for not looking it up and trying to do it by memory :\

Fixed now.

Mike.

 

[umala]

I finally found a link about this product. It actually seems very interesting as more than 10 mobo are tested.

http://www.ocworkbench.com/2004/asrock/k8upgrade-760gx/g1.htm